Cedar Hill Open Learning

Nuren Studios International ELL Homestay program - Edmonds, WA (Near Seattle). We continued to work with our lovely friends Tim and Yeonjin who were running a learning centre in South Korea at the time

We had 2-3 junior youth from South Korea come and stay with us and our daughters for 6-10 months at a time, going to private schools in the area and having ELL support programs with us at home. They became like our family members while they lived with us. We partnered with some other educators and programs in the area. Each homestay (most years) started off with going to Disneyland (optional) all together and ended with the friends from Korea going to Space Camp (this was optional) before they went back home to Korea. This homestay program ran for the next 8 years. The last student who stayed with us (one of our original campers from the first year) was with us for 3 years in Costa Rica and we ended up going on a trip to Europe and Africa one year as well as a trip to Peru the last year. Incredible memories!