Because Juan has always been surrounded by sisters and started talking about us adopting a brother for him, which is not going to happen, we decided to explore foreign exchange student programs. We are a little unsure with the kids emotional stability how this will go but thought we would give it a try. We were matched with a boy from Spain named Pablo. He arrived in July and lasted a few months. I got him enrolled in football at Odyssey, he went to youth group with the kids at church, and we tried really hard to include him in everything. Unfortunately, it was a combination of him being young and homesick and Juan not embracing him like we had hoped. He chose after a few months to move to a different state and try again but we were sad it did not work out better. We tried!
