Guest Blogger: Gina Nakagawa
In an effort to share the joys of hosting an exchange student, I have asked host parents to weigh in on their hosting experiences with regards to their 2014-15 exchange students. Today's featured student is presented by her host Mom, Gina Nakagawa of Athens, Georgia.
Anahit Ghazarayan - ARMENIA: Savory & Spicy
Last August a young woman from Hyastan (Armenia) entered the lives of my husband and me. If little girls are supposed to be sugar and spice, this lady is savory and spicy. Her name is Anahit Ghazaryan, and she came to this country for a year of American schooling on the Department of State FLEX (Future Leaders Exchange)n Program.
If ever there was a candidate for leadership, it is Anahit. She is thoughtful. She expresses her ideas well. She is firm in her convictions. She is really fearless, except when she is at the top of the lighthouse at Tybee Island and the wind is blowing.
Since she has come to Georgia, Anahit has become more and more willing to try new adventures. She has become involved in many volunteer activities from volunteering to distribute ice skates to help raise funds to handing out water at a bicycle race to acting as youth advocate at the local Peer Court and helping the Red Cross at their blood collection center. Before she returns to Armenia, she plans the biggest adventure of all, eating at a dim sum restaurant.
Anahit has accomplished all of this while maintaining outstanding grades at Cedar Shoals High School thus greatly impressing her teachers.
She has become a much loved member of our family. She is like a blood daughter to us. She will return to the mother and father and brother and sister who love her, but she will leave behind two people who will greatly miss her and have a great hole in their hearts.
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