AFS is an international non-profit exchange program run by volunteers bringing the peoples of the world closer together through intercultural learning and understanding.

AFS-San Diego Mourns the Loss of Kristy Ishmael

Fri, 03/21/2008 - 9:00pm — jeff

Kristy Ishmael, one of our most dedicated volunteers, died peacefully in her sleep on March 6th after an eighteen month battle with cancer. I knew Kristy both as a host mom and as a good friend. She and her husband Ken hosted three students in successive years, Arthur Wong from Malaysia, Marin Stankov from Bulgaria and Germany, and Francisca Barreiros from Portugal. Two of her children went abroad on AFS exchanges, Timothy to New Zealand and Brynne to Austria.

Orientation 9/21-23, camp mt Laguna.

Fri, 10/05/2007 - 9:00pm — jeff

Hi! Im one of the fifteen students that two weeks ago took part at the three-days-orientation in a camp in the middle of an amazing nowhere, in mt Laguna.

Only fifteen of us, not a big number, but a great group that includes many different countries: Italy, France, Portugal, Austria, Brazil, Germany, India, Chile, Sweden, Norway and Thai.

Welcome picnic 2007

Sat, 08/25/2007 - 9:00pm — jeff

The annual picnic, hosted once again by Jeff, Cathy, and Nina Monroe at their lovely home in Fallbrook on August 25, was blessed with excellent weather and a congenial group of attendees. Becky Brooks, our orientations coordinator, added a little spice to the proceedings by rounding up our hosted girls for a hula dance and our hosted boys for a hula hoop exhibition under a canopy erected for the occasion. Selected host dads were invited to show their stuff as well.

Local High School Student Will Visit Japan

Wed, 07/18/2007 - 9:00pm — jeff

by Jim Dooley, AFS Volunteer

Melissa Felipe, currently a junior at Fallbrook High School, will be traveling to Japan this summer as an AFS exchange student. She departs June 23, will stay with a host family in Tokyo, and will attend a language school studying Japanese for about six weeks, returning to Fallbrook August 4.

Ramona Family Immersed in Hosting and Sending

Tue, 07/10/2007 - 9:00pm — jeff

By Grace Micetich, freelance writer

Ramona residents, Ken and Kristy Ishmael, believe their children benefited greatly from studying abroad. Of their four children, two have been AFS students. And in 2005 & 2006, they hosted two AFS youngsters, one from Malaysia, and the other from Germany. They await the arrival in August of their next student, Francisca, a girl from Portugal. She, like all the Ishmael children, will attend Ramona High.

Syndicate content