| Two years ago we decided to sell everything we | | | | comforts of the US. We just returned from our |
| owned, including my business and move to Costa | | | | yearly journey to the States and they just kept |
| Rica. My husband took early retirement from the | | | | complaining about wanting to go home. |
| Post Office and we moved south. Part of the | | | | Third would be hands on learning about another |
| motivation was that we wanted to get out of | | | | culture. We have travelled to Nicaragua, Panama |
| debt and get self reliant. Another reason was that | | | | and have a trip planned to Hondurus. The girls |
| we thought it would be good for our two | | | | have learned much about different countries as |
| youngest children living at home to live abroad for | | | | well as different people. They can tell now which |
| a few years. We have a five year plan and are | | | | country people come from when they meet and |
| enjoying the heck out of the adventure. | | | | talk to them. |
| One thing we have discovered and wish that we | | | | The fourth benefit we have observed is our |
| had discovered 25 years ago when we began | | | | daughters have become very adaptable. Being |
| homeschooling our seven children,is that this is the | | | | adaptable is very important for all people no |
| best way to homeschool! Had we known then | | | | matter where they come from. It makes life |
| what we know now we would have made the | | | | easier and relieves stress in our lives. When we |
| move many years ago. Why you ask, would it be | | | | first moved here my youngest daughter as well |
| any better to homeschool abroad? | | | | as the rest of us were shocked that all the other |
| Reason number one is the fact that we are | | | | children called her Chine. She is Chinese and here |
| saving mucho dinero on teaching our children a | | | | anyone that looks Chinese is automatically termed |
| foreign language. There is a saying that if you are | | | | Chine. Now we are used to it and she comes |
| trilingual you are European if you are bilingual you | | | | when they call, though she does remind them |
| are south or central American and if you speak | | | | that her name is Maleah. |
| only one language you are American! We feel it is | | | | The fifth reason we feel it is beneficial to |
| important for all people to speak more than one | | | | homeschool abroad is that it is just plain old fun! |
| language, and most colleges share this belief. Most | | | | Every month we plan a trip to a different part of |
| colleges now require at least two years of foreign | | | | the country, usually a beach we have not seen! |
| language studies. | | | | The girls have sea shell collections, sand they like |
| The second reason is the fact that every person | | | | to play with and other treasures from the beach. |
| should spend at least 6 months living in another | | | | My older daughter even has a picture of her with |
| country. When we first moved here we believed | | | | a surfer guy from Czech Republic. |
| it would teach our daughters to appreciate all the | | | | |