From Exchange Student to Doctor after Host Family Experience

00:05 we never really when we looked at who we

00:08 wanted to host specifically said oh it

00:10 must be this type of student or this

00:12 kind of person and so when we picked

00:15 Maui we thought you know we'll see how

00:17 he does and I think he quickly became

00:21 the envy of all the other host families

00:23 because he was just the most amazing kid

00:27 the concept of host family it's just

00:31 amazing because you get placed with

00:34 people you've never known before you've

00:36 never met you never heard their names

00:38 they open up their homes they open up

00:41 their hearts you are from different race

00:44 different background everything is

00:46 different and then suddenly you become

00:48 their son

00:55 at the time my wife was a paramedic very

01:00 busy on call all the time and now we've

01:03 got a chance to hear a lot of those

01:05 calls and that really sparked his

01:09 interest in not only helping other

01:11 people but specifically helping other

01:13 people in the field of medicine when I

01:18 went home after high school I applied to

01:21 be a doctor just because I wanted to be

01:24 like her when I told him that hey I'm

01:27 gonna be a doctor

01:28 we're so excited he sends down all her

01:32 text books all the jati and she heard

01:34 and all stars and they were very very

01:36 helpful and give a lot of credit to Han

01:39 Tullius program WOWY has been an

01:44 excellent example of the positive

01:47 benefits of the yes program long after

01:49 he's been in the US for the last ten

01:52 years even going to med school he finds

01:54 time to go out and volunteer he's done a

01:58 lot of programs on community health

02:00 education he works with other alumni of

02:03 the yes program in Nigeria out there

02:06 actively bettering their communities

02:08 through volunteering we're delighted to

02:11 have another doctor in the family

02:17 you