French student discovers American life in Linglestown

By John Robinson
for Linglestown Gazette

Seventeen-year-old Octave Leborgne, of La Chapelle-St-Mesmin, France, has spent most of August here in Linglestown, a guest of Todd and Cindy Rittle and their children, Jared, 16, and Lauren 13, of Fairway Estates.

The Rittle Family and Octave are participating in a homestay program of LEC, a Paris-based organization that has been sponsoring homestays for French students since 1972.

In a recent interview for the Gazette, Todd Rittle spoke of how much he enjoyed watching Octave experience things for the first time: his first baseball game; his first American cheeseburger; his first peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

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The Rittle family – left to right, Todd, Jared, Cindy, and Lauren – is pictured holding Octave Leborgne.