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Lincoln Friends of Foreign Students

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What Is Lincoln Friends of Foreign Students? 

The Lincoln Friends program is a family visitation program not a home-stay hosting program.  Students attend classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and are responsible for their own accommodations.   Lincoln Friend members are friends with their students just as they are friends with others.  Their student friends are visiting from other parts of the world.

What is Expected of Lincoln Friends Members?

•   Agree to be a friend to one or more UNL international student for at least one year

•   Contact your student at least once a month, even if only a phone call to see how he/she is doing.

•   Include students in some of your activities, spend time in conversation with your student,

•   Answer questions about American life and culture, care about your student.

•   Actively support and participate in the social activities planned for LFFS members and students.

    Become a Lincoln Friend now by completing a Membership Application . 

Why should I participate?

Some of  the rewards and benefits include:

•   Your family will meet people from other parts of the world and learn about their culture.

•   Teach others about life in the United States and our culture.  See the U.S. through different eyes.

•   Help students living far from home to adjust to life in a new country.

•   Meet other community members with similar interests.

•   "Travel" while staying at home.

•   Gain a new friend!!

What Lincoln Friends Need to Know:

Religion and religious institutions constitute an important aspect of culture in the United States that foreign students should have an opportunity to observe and learn about, if they desire.  Foreign students come to us with their own religious and political beliefs.  Any form of evangelizing, "witnessing" or proselytizing may be offensive and confusing to them and is forbidden by the  Lincoln Friends of Foreign Students and National Association of Foreign Student Affairs: Association for International Educators.  Lincoln Friends members should be sensitive to and respectful of students' beliefs while allowing for a mutual exchange of ideas.

Matching of Lincoln Friends and Students are completed during the first few weeks of each semester.  You, as the friend, should initiate contact with your student soon after your assignment.

Students have their own housing and so it is not necessary to supply overnight accommodations.  However, if you have the available space, an invitation to spend a weekend or a holiday break may be mutually enjoyable.

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