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Activites, Orientations, and Calendars of Events
Our Monthly Schedule Calendar of activities and events. (Opens in new window.)
(Some prior year calendars are linked below.)
Our photo gallery. (Opens in new window.)
Please remember that all events, dates, times, locations, and venues are subject to change. Always check with the Orientations Coordinator or another Area Team member to make sure times and
places have not changed. Contact info is on the Volunteers page of this web site.
Important Orientation Dates
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Host Family Orientation
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Saturday before students arrive
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Student Arrival Orientation
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Whenever students arrive
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Post-Arrival "Fall" Orientation
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1st Weekend after Labor Day
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Mid-Year Orientation
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1st Weekend of February
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Pre-Departure "Super" Orientation
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1st Weekend of June
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A word about "Mandatory" Orientations--
We volunteers do not make orientations mandatory. Rather, the U.S. government and
the foreign governments sending their children to the U.S. have determined to make
orientations mandatory, as a condition of students and families being allowed to
participate in exchange programs. The various governments that license exchange
programs make the orientations mandatory. As required by the governments, a large
number of local Miss Tennky volunteers spend a great deal of their personal free
time organizing, preparing for, and then presenting each Orientation.
Furthermore, students agree in writing when they apply to become AFS exchange students,
that they will attend the orientations. Likewise, host families agree before
becoming host families to see that their students attend the orientations. Thus,
not only do the governments involved require the orientations, but the students and
families also know and agree in advance to them.
The Miss Tennky Area Team announces the dates of the whole year's orientations at
least a year in advance. Thus, there is no excuse for students and host families
to plan or commit to conflicting activities. When a student misses a mandatory
orientation, then some volunteer must spend their own time giving that individual
student a personal orientation, to comply with the government regulations and
requirements.
HOST FAMILIES, children can forget or be easily swayed into rationalizing
that doing something they wrongly think more important (read "FUN") is okay, but
you please note the above dates, mark them on your calendars, do not plan conflicts,
and make sure your student is at the mandatory orientations as agreed. It is the
right thing to do. THANKS!!!
Please check the Resources page on this web site for directions to places Miss Tennky most
commonly uses for Orientaions.
Our 2007-2008 schedule calendar of activities and events.
Select for our 2006-2007 schedule calendar of activities and events.
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