Like all Iraqis, the Sachets were incredibly hospitable and warm, and our early conversations were full of mutual curiosity; we were people from two very different cultures that had been kept apart, who were just desperately fascinated with each other.
Put yourself in your exchange student's shoes; read up on his or her culture, ask him or her about his or her interests, and really make an effort to be hospitable and warm toward your new guest.
Warm, hospitable service can be absent-minded.
"We're trying to create a theater that's warm, hospitable and first-rate".
The restaurant, a 100-year-old tavern, sheds a warm, hospitable light onto a cold-looking street.
They are among the many who will remember her, in the words of her grandson, Adam Tooze, as "a life force – warm, hospitable, engaged, caring".
The traditional tungsten bulb emits a warm, hospitable glow in the yellow spectrum that has come to feel synonymous with the tucked-indoors-for-the-evening cosiness of home.
"It always gets the Best Bang for the Buck in our book," Ms. Zagat said of the legendary fast food joint, "because it's an incredibly warm, hospitable place where you feel that everybody on the staff is happy to see you and is glad that you are there".
Hiring queer staff, demonstrating "an awareness of the potential for our verbal and nonverbal communication," and creating a warm, hospitable environment for the staff as well as the customers is an integral step in queering restaurant norms.
I learned this (and how to prepare Yerba Mate, the tea-like Argentinian national drink) from Laura and Claudia, two warm hospitable girls vacationing from Buenos Aires whom I met when they pointed out the correct path to take.
