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Lawrence police are investigating the burglary Monday of stereo equipment, a portable television, and clothing valued at $1355 from a residence in the 1300 block of Connecticut Street. Police said the victim was next door at the house. The house was entered through an unlocked sliding door, police said.
POLICE ARE investigating the burglary of Colyer Wholesale Supply Co., 706, E. 23rd St. A gray cash box contain $218 was stolen police said.
Homestay gives foreign students look at U.S. culture
POLICE ALSO are investigating several bicycle thefts that occurred Monday.
A bike valued at $10 was taken from an unlocked garage in the 1900 block of Edgele Road; a bike valued at $183 was stolen from the front yard in the 1900 block of Edgele Road; a bike valued at $150 was cut from its chain lock in the 900 block of Louisiana Street.
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By KATHY BRUSSELL Staff Reporter
One week from today, most KU students will be at home, eating, shopping and doing what they probably maze most while they are at school—
But for KU's foreign students, who often travel thousands of miles to come to the University, Thanksgiving break is the perfect opportunity to pop home for the long weekend.
Instead, the students must either go to friends' homes or, if they live in residence halls, arrange to stay in the dorm room. Only one open during Thanksgiving.
Some foreign students, however, are
accepted from another option,
KVL's Kroppenberg school.
DURING HOMESTAY, a program run during the Thanksgiving and spring breaks, American families have foreign students as guests in their
"My main purpose in coming here was to find out about the people and culture of the United States." Junko Matsuda. Tokyo graduate student, said
yesterday. "Living with a family will be a good opportunity to communicate with them and find out more about the things I'm seeing. I'm really looking forward to it."
Matsuda, who plans to return to Japan to teach high school English, said she hoped that spending time with her children would help improve her English.
Abdul Chaudhry, Pakistan graduate student, participated in the Homestay program last spring and signed up again this fall.
"I liked the program because you don't feel any homeiness," he said. "The family makes you feel like you're in your own home."
Chaudhry, who spent spring break with a Kansas City, Mo., family, she visited area museums, learned to play the violin, and attended an American church services during Homestead.
He also went to the local high school and spoke to several classes about his
"They wanted to know what my ideas about the United States were, and what I thought would work best."
said. "I really enjoyed talking to the young people."
Students who have participated in Homestay said they were most impressed by the large family gatherings that Americans had during Thanksgiving.
ACCORDING TO JUDY Woelfel,
assistant director of Foreign Student
Services and Homestay coordinator,
who will serve for this year's Thanksgiving Homestay.
Only 17 students have been placed with Kansas or Missouri host families, however, so more families are needed, she said.
"There's always a lower number of families volunteering for Thanksgiving than for spring break, probably because many families go away for the holiday or invite other relatives in," she said.
"Still, I don't know why, but the
reality seems to get
everyday a lot."
KU has been running the Homeesty program for about 12 years, Woolfeil
When recruiting host families, she
said, she contacted people who were on past mailin lists, as well as any new ones.
Press releases published in newspapers throughout the state also attest to this.
ONE REASON the program was started involved the cost of staying on a job.
The charge for staying in McColum is $8 a night, according to Fred McElhenie, director of residential programs.
Because residence hall contracts do not include charges for vacation periods, students who stay in halls during these periods cost the cost of keeping the hall open, he said.
At least 50 students must up to sign in to McCollium for it to remain open, he said. The minimum number last year was 25, but increases in the wage and in utility rates have raised the cost of maintaining the hall.
Woelfeil said, “it’s expensive and lonely to stay in a hall over vacation. Students have an added hardship when they are away from the hall and the buses aren't running.”
For the most part, families and students participating in Homestay
have had very positive experiences, sbe said.
"Many of them have developed relationships that they've maintained throughout the years, and the families that the students to come back," she said.
PAULINE MOBLEY and her husband have been hosts to foreign students in their Independence, Mo., and they are as part of the Homestay program.
"We've gotten a lot of things out of the program, but mostly we've found out that no matter what part of the world students are from, they're no better than us," Mobby said. "They like love and kindness, the same things that we do."
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In White Water, Rosalie Thiessen and her family were hosts to two foreign students for both Thanksgiving and spring break three years ago. The family signed up for the program again this year.
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"Both of the boys we hosted came to my daughter's wedding in May 1978," she said. "We communicated to them that they were important to us, and that once they came could when they wanted to, even without a formal invitation."
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"Our family has grown and learned a lot about other countries. It builds international relations, I feel. Children are very much to meet foreign students very often."
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