Miho Tomonari (25)

Wants to homestay for 8 months in Gainesville while attending UF's English Language Institute. She is 25, a typically polite & shy Japanese girl, very good in piano, who needs to pass TOEFL to attend music college in Louisiana.

She's aiming to attend ELI from May to the beginning of December (Summer C and Fall C). I was thinking a homestay somewhere in Gainesville from where she can bicycle/commute to UF. She is quite independent, worked in a corporate HQ environment for 4 years, is from the 8th largest city in Japan (Fukuoka), her dad is a City official, she likes dogs, has been abroad on holiday on several occasions, not shy around the kitchen and can communicate, though slowly, pretty well in English. I told her that probably she'd have to prepare $400/m or so for her part of the living expenses, get her own bicycle, find her own way around etc, and basically operate as in independent student. She is OK with that.

If you know of anyone, please call me at 284 8221. Arigatou!

Mark