Right before our trip to Tahoe, we were contacted about hosting a foreign exchange student and decided to give it a whirl--on the condition that this student spoke Russian because Jeanine thinks it's funny to leave Nathaniel out of the conversation now and then and was tired of doing it by herself to practice her Russian. So they sent us Diana from Moldova (which is between Ukraine and Romania), whose native languages are Russian and Romanian, but who also speaks fluent French, English, Spanish, and sometimes German. Now Jeanine and Nathaniel's whole family can practice their mission languages!
But she is a sweetheart and we have really enjoyed having her has part of our family. She makes for a great first teenage daughter experiment as well. We hope to do less ruining of our firstborn by doing our best with someone else's first. She has been patient of our parenting tactics. She gets enough teasing about boys by Nathaniel to realize there is no point arguing how much she doesn't like so-and-so or even so-and-so. And Nathaniel is well accustomed to and even enjoys the glare that results from misplacing the word "boy" for "guy" when preceding the word "friend."
Here are a few of those "guy-friends" and other friends she met at the open house we threw when she arrived to let her meet some of the local yocals.
We had a great turn out and we appreciate all the friends and neighbors that came to that and tried some of our Eastern European Cuisine.
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