No Place Like Home ; Exchange Students Become Part of Family; Bonds Cross Oceans, Cultures
The Washington Times › March 22, 2004
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Mirano Asai, 17, eagerly gets up from the dining room table just about every evening to do an activity most American teenagers would go out of their way to avoid.
She does the dishes.See the full content of this document
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No Place Like Home ; Exchange Students Become Part of Family; Bonds Cross Oceans, Cultures
"That's her special thing," says Dianne Bradley of Silver Spring, Mirano's host mother. "That's a chore that she claimed. ... She really wanted to do it." Mirano, a foreign exchange student, comes from Japan.
Ms. Bradley and husband, Maurice Zeeman, are veterans when it comes to being host parents. They have no children of their own, but Mirano, who attends John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, is their seventh child in nine years of hosting. So they know it's important to let their "daughter" have a stake in the family routine.Host fam...See the full content of this document
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