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“I’m used to having a Mom on the go all the time,” Frank said in nearperfect English.
“When there is something to do, he jumps right in and helps,” Marie said with pride in her new son.
Not every family or every exchange so easily makes the transition from one family to another.
Frank was no exception. He explained with a smile and a shake of his dark hair that his early movements into the Davis family were “careful.”
“I was ‘king’ at home,” he said with a smile, adding his siblings are all older and live outside his home. “I kinda thought I could be over-dominated by three older sisters,” he said laughing, and adding that just weeks after his arrival, his hesitations were put to rest as he found his three sisters to “not to be domineering at all.”
“I’ve always wanted to have a brother,” 20-year-old Chandra said, a.’ding she always liked the ‘big brother idea” — someone who was protective yet “a buddy.”
“We really don’t fight,” the girls agreed, sitting around the big dining room table in the Davis home, as they traded teasing remarks with Frank and their siblings.
“Frank’s the mediator,” Mrs. Davis said of her new son and three grown daughters. “He tries to stop their fights and tangles,” she added.
“I think we get along better with males than females,” the young Marie Davis said, as her sisters agreed, each adding that their success as an exchange family may lie with their adulthood. “It might have been harder if we were younger. We are older and more mature about many things,” she said.
The Davis family “has never treated me as a guest,” Frank said with firmness. “They let me know they cared but they did not give me any extra attention,” the teen said, adding these actions could create problems and jealousies. “They’re just like family.”
Besides gaining a family in living with the Davis’ for the last 11 months, Frank has gained insight in the American people and American ways.
Stereotypes have been shattered and replaced with realistic characters.
“We only know what comes from movies,” Frank said with honesty, adding the silver screen portrays a United States in paradise. American
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