Host Family Topics
Discuss ways for participant to have a safe spring (PSW)
Do you have any plans for spring, i.e., travel, extracurricular activities?
Ensure that the participant knows what to do in order to obtain academic credit back home if applicable (G&E)
Does the participant know how to obtain academic credit back home from this experience?
Discuss mailing packages back home (A&U)
Has the participant mailed any packages back home?
How did that work?
Natural family visits (CA)
Has the participant's natural family visited?
Talk to the student and family about spring accidents and ways that they can work together for an accident free remainder of the year (PSW)
- Seeing that this is the 2nd half of the year more accidents can happen since students become more active and want to accomplish more as they know their time is short. This tends to bring about accidents.
How can we prevent these accidents but still encourage the participant to accomplish these tasks/ get involved?
Participant Topics
Encourage the student to continue with the commitment to having an alcohol free remainder of the year (PSW)
Have you experienced any peer pressure with regard to alcohol use or other behaviors that go against your values or AFS rules? How did you handle this? (PSW)
Have you been involved in any consumption of alcohol?
Discuss was for student to have a safe spring (PSW)
Do you have any plans for the spring, i.e., travel, extracurricular activities?
Ensure that participants know what to do in order to obtain academic credit back home if applicable (G&E)
Are you aware of how to obtain academic credit back home for this experience?
Discuss mailing packages back home (A&U)
Have you or will you mail any packages back home?
Tell students not to make any permanent changes to their bodies such as tattoos (PSW)
Are you thinking of altering your body in any way, i.e., tattoos or piercings?
Natural family visits (CA)
Has or will your natural family come visit you?
Discuss participant's perception on holiday's/compare to major home country holiday - find similarities and differences, what values are reflected in each (CL)
How do you feel holidays here and in your home country would be similar and/or differ?
Talk to the student and family about spring accidents and ways that they can work together for an accident free remainder of the year (PSW)
Are you all aware of accidents that could occur during the spring time?
How can we prevent these situations?
Key
A&U = AFS and You
PSW = Personal Safety and Well-being
CL = Culture Learning
CA = Cultural Adjustment
G&E = Goals and Expectations
RL = Required Logistics