Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Landmark hosts French students Thirteen French students recently spent 14 days visiting the USA as guests of Landmark Christian School. Eight Landmark families opened their homes to host the French visitors. The visiting students were between the ages of 15-17 and attend a high school just outside Paris. All were students of the English language and came to the United States to practice the language and to experience American culture and family life. The French students loved their sightseeing trips around Atlanta as well as to Nashville and Chattanooga. Some of the local highlights were visits to the High Museum of Art, the Martin Luther King Center and the World of Coke Museum. The students will also spent a day at Stone Mountain and toured the Georgia State Capital. They enjoyed eating American food and shopping, but the overwhelming themes among the French students were how wonderful everyone had been to them and how much love they had been shown. They expressed the desire to come back and visit with their “families” and to have their biological families meet their “American families.” “I want to come back and bring my father to meet my American family,” said Nolwenn Talmo. “I shall tell my mother that I have a new mother in America,” Karim Morsli told her host family.