The average stay is 3 to 5 days. They also want to know about Kansas City, and we plan programs to do much of that. Your job is simply to treat them as a new found family friend - to show them how you live, what you like, what you don't like, and to learn the same things from them. We try to place visitors with compatible families. For instance, if they are young people, we try to place them with families who have members around the same age.
Language is no barrier.
Generally we place visitors that have poor English skills either with a family that speaks their language, or pair them with another visitor that speaks English well. All you have to provide is breakfast, dinner and friendship. Your interest in hosting people from different parts of the world is to be commended as it lends a helping hand to the People to People mission of improving international understanding, communications, peace and friendship. I also recognize that there are certain risks of having people visit me and stay in my home, and I am willing to assume and bear these risks in order to meet and share experience with someone from another country.