Heather and I are liaisons for an Egyptian foreign exchange student. We have hosted in the past but the twins slowed things down. As liaisons, we “supervise” the host family kinda as an middleman between the host and the AFS organization at large.

Meemo, the Egyptian boy, spent a night at our house recently so I decided to give him some boy activities that he has not experience since he is from Cairo. First, I had him use my Stihl gas power leaf blower. That was fun. Then I used my tablesaw to repair a broken couch. Notice that I ran the tablesaw not Meemo. Nonetheless, he had never used a saw before so it was interesting. In fact, Meemo has never swung a hammer so even driving some springs into the couch frame was a new experience. We later watched a movie, slept the night, and had breakfast. The next day we learned how to shoot a .22 rifle. Meemo had difficulty using my narrow scope so I removed it. After a dozen shots he go the hang of shooting and hit his target every time. Good stuff and what a wonderful cultural experience.