Good Goes Around.....

Reflecting on my Christmas eve dinner at my host family. She graduated from the same school that I am attneding now (www.gsu.edu) and raising four girls. I asked her why she likes to host international students? She said, it is kind of pay back. When she was in the Navy-she was stationed in a remote naval base for a training session which supposed to have ended two days before Christmas, but for some reason, the training had to continue until the first week of next year. So, the trainees were ordered not to leave the station.So, she was so sad that she started crying during the Christmas eve remembering family and friends. Then a local host family showed up who drove several miles to get to the naval base to adopt trainees for the Christmas celebration to take to their home for a day and then they promised to return the guests to the naval base before the training resumes. They dined together, played games...a touch of home away of home. She felt so relieved after spending that Christmas with that host family and liked it so much that she decided to 'adopt' guests who are away of their family during crhistmas. Thus every Christmas she comes out and look for international students of GSU who are staying here here away of their family and home and adopt them for a day or two. Same an act of good can really replicate it self, as my host jokingly said-like a 'good virus'! I guess I have to help someone learning driving someday for the same token...