Hi future host familly.

Today I want to speak about me, my life, my familly my friends, so you can get to know me better.

I can start talking about the first years of life, I was born in a relative small city that is in the north of the country. For me, it is the pretiest city that I know ( at the moment, my host city could be the first of the list😉) and that is because is the best city to grow when you are a child, the city is really safe and you can move around easily with your friends.

Right now, we are around 40 people in my friends group, and that is soo cool, because we are too many and we can spend plenty of time together doing different plans.

When I was 11 we moved to a bigger city in Spain, at the start I was bit stressed about the new city and friends but when I entered at the school all changed because I met a lot of new people, and they are marvelous.

Nowadays I mantein all those friends and more of them. If I have to mention 2 they shuld be Matias and Marcos. We enjoy spending time together, talking and playing.

Now we talk about my familly. My Mum is the person that I love the most I think and i know that we can argue sometimes but I think that is normal. With my father I spend plenty of quality time watching soccer and the NBA. My 2 sisters that are June and Aitana, we have a good relationship, we can have arguments sometimes though, but it is normal, I love them a lot.

About what are my hobies, the first one it could be play sports. The first one is soccer, I love play it but I am not to good but doesn't matter because I am really happy playing and I have so much fun.

The second is the music and this is because I spend a lot of time listening to music of a lot of kinds for example American rap or reggaeton, I only say two becouse if I start I don't end.

Other hobbie are the animals and the nature and if I have to be sencerely I don't know what is but it should be thanks to my mother becouse she also love the nature, we have a litle village in the mountains and it is her favourite place.

Now talking about me I love going to have a walk to the mountains why my dog Kala that I also show in the video.

Finally but not less important spend time with my friends doing what ever, playing video games, practicing sports or at school, for me spending time with my friends is really importat, I appreciate friendship very much.

One thing that I should have said before is that I am very active but in other hand I also like stay at home watching a movie or a serie or playing boards games. So I can be active but also relaxing.

At the end I have to talk about what motivate me to do this and study abroad a whole year is becouse I like changes and new things. Another reason is that I like the idea of live in a new culture and country and love it, at a sumary I want to have a change and know a new culture and country.

I am excited about meeting my future host family and I am sure we will have a great time together.

Thank you for this amazing opportunity

Adrian

Dear Family,

I'm Victoria and I would be 16 years old when I will arrive in the united states. As I have to describe me more than I did already I can say I am active, I like do activities outside like sports, games or walking, I would always be agree for discover new activities and take part of them but anyway there are activities that I don't really like such as the hiking or long bike rides .

I live with my twin, my big brother and my parents. We live in a big house in a semi-rural environment but I often go in the big city close to home for high school, shopping, going out with my friends etc…

I used to have my personal space with my personal stuffs

I'm also independent I can find a way for fix my problems but I like to be help sometimes. I am pretty shy but once I know people my timidity disappears and I'm happy to meet people. Moreover I can be very cheerful if I enjoy the situations.

However, I have some fault too. I am a little bit messy but if I am decided to clean up I will do it perfectly. I'm a girl with a lot of dream and go to united state is one of them.

Actually, I have a lot of interests, first is my family and my friends. There are very important for me and I love spend time with them, With my friends I go shopping, do sleepover, pool party, celebrate birthdays and many other activities. With my family what I prefer Is going on vacation near the sea for discover regions and city but also for do nothing on the beach to relax.

My seconds interests are my pets and the sport. I love my animals, I have 4 cats and one rabbit. I enjoy taking care of them.

I love sports particularly gymnastic, I do it in club where I am very engaged. I enjoy spend time for help my club with my teammates. Gymnastics isn’t the only sport that I like, I like many others sports like volley or beach-volley, football, handball etc...There is one sport that I really would like to try is surf, it seems really great.

Finally, I like fashion because I like select clothes that I like and be fashion.

About my expectations aboard, first of all, I hope find a family who match with me. Then I would discover culture and american’s lifestyle and learn new things, I would share unforgettable memories.

I hope I will meet great person and make me friends. I would do many activities that I will loved. And obviously at the end become bilingual.

I know at the beginning it will be a little bit difficult to adapt me but I’m sure I will adapt me as quickly as possible.

I hope to live a year full of discovered, of meetings, of challenges.

I want to share my culture with people I met. For that I can share values or history of my country. I can tell my own anecdotes, stories that I lived. I can also cook typical dishes. Of course, I will be open to all discussion.

Thank you so much for reading me. I hope we will meet each other soon !

Dear future host family,

First of all I want to say thank you, that you think about choosing me as your future exchange student and want me to be a part of your family for 10 months. Obviously I don't know anything about you yet but I am already very excited to meet you soon. Until we meet each other I want to tell you something about me, my family, my hobbies and why I have chosen the USA.

My name is Egemen and I am 15 years old. I live in Germany in a state called Baden-Wuerttemberg. I live with my parents and my 18 years old sister. I visit my grand parents almost every summer in Turkey as my parents are originally from there. We spend our summer holidays at the beach house of my grand parents and swim every day at the aegean sea.

We travel a lot with my family and my highlight was a roadtrip through the USA, where I have seen some National parks (e.g. Yosemite Park, Zion, Bryce Canyon are some of the highlights). I am fascinated by the nature of the USA.

Usually after school I meet with friends and we are going bowling or sitting in a cafe and hanging out together.

I love playing cards (like Uno) and board games with family and fiends. My favorite board game is Monopoly and Risk. I like also watching movies and I go sometimes to the movie theater with friends. In summer I like biking in the nature and going swimming with my friends.

Sometimes I do programming and modeling 3D objects just for fun.

At home I have normal household chores like cleaning my room, unloading the dishwasher or setting the table. I am a 9th grader at a gymnasium (high school).

My favorite subjects are Music, History, Geography and for sure English. I like singing and this is why I am a part of our school choir. In the USA I would like to try an American sports like baseball, football or basketball. I am already very excited to be a part of your family and to experience some typical traditions like thanksgiving or halloween. I am a really curious and polite person.I am also a friendly and ambitious person. I would love to make new friends in the US.

With this opportunity I get the chance to make my dream come true to, learn something about your culture, learn english and see the beautiful nature of the United States.

I am really looking forward meeting you.

Sincerely

Egemen

Hello!

My name is Alejandra, I am 14 years old and I'm a very adventure person, I always like to do a lot of activities and to live new experiences. I'm also a really organized person, I like to have all my things collected and in order, and to have all my school tasks up to date and done as best as posible. Furthermore I like going out with family and friends as much as possible.

I love my country, it has lovely sea landscapes and mountain ones too, a great cuisine, that I'd be pleased to show you, with its typical plates like "paella", potato omelette or "croquetas" and a very nice climate, neither too hot or too cold. I live in a big city next to the sea, and I love it because whenever I need to disconnect I like to go there.

In my family we are 5, my parents, my 2 brothers and me. My both parents are 51 years old, they are welcoming and they support us in all our decisions guiding us to be always a better person. I'm the middle sister, but it doesn't matter because me and my youngest brother are twins, so he's only 5 minutes younger than me, we share room but not many interests and although we have a good relationship we aren't as close as with the oldest one, we have more common interests so thats why we are closer. He is 16 years old and this year is going to graduate from school.

This year I'm doing 3 ESO that in the US would be 9th grade.

I like my classes because I go with all my friends, my favorites ones are history (it's super interesting to know what happened in the past and to understand peoples behavior), science (to understand how our world works) and art (I love drawing, it makes me disconnect and it reminds me to my dad because he taught me). My school is the biggest one of the state where I live, it has a lot of sports facilities like football, basketball, volleyball or roller hockey pitches, gymnastics spot, athletics track among other things. It has more than 3000 students.

My friends and I spend a lot of time together, we make good and fun plans the weekends because is when we have more time. Our favorite plans are go shopping, to a coffee shop or restaurant to have a snack and to watch each others matches.

Normally I don't have much time during the week because I like to have a lot of extracurricular activities, this year I play volleyball twice a week, I have 3 dance lessons a week and I play paddle once a week. But in winter my family and me love going skiing the weekends.

At home I try to help my parents, doing my bed, taking out the dishwasher, tacking out the trash, organizing the common zones, putting and quitting the table and helping to cook. I normally cook the meat, I make pasta, sandwiches, soup, omelette or "croquetas".

I'm really looking forward to next year, it's a very great chance to live a school year in the USA, to improve my English, to grow like a person and to live new experiences and I'm so thankful for it. I'd like to show you my culture so that we can compare both of them!

See you soon! Best,

Alejandra

Dear host family,

My name is Alejandra , and I want to thank you for the opportunity to be part of your family. I am very excited about this experience and everything I will learn with you.

I come from a family of five. My older brother is 20 years old and is studying to become a pilot, while my 17-year-old sister goes to the same school as me. We love spending time together. We also have a dog named Toby, who is an important part of our family. As for my parents, my mother works at a bank, and my father is a pharmacist. They have always taught us the importance of family and enjoying every moment together.

I am an enthusiastic and positive person, I am very friendly, I get on very well with my friends and family. In my spare time, I love meeting friends, we usually eat out and go for a walk together. I love doing sports like tennis and skiing. Among other activities, l love to spend long hours listening to music, my favourite is reggaeton and I also listen to some English music from the artist The Weekend, also I love watching TV series or movies, my favourite series are: The 100, The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf...

In summer, I always spend a month at my grandma's little village in Galicia, the north of Spain. It's such a beautiful coastal village near the sea, I always have nice time there, because I have a lot of friends and family.

Relation to food, I love healthy food, like some vegetables, but my favourite food It's pasta, pizza, spaghetti... Although I don't like fish and seafood very much. I like every kind of meat. In general terms, I like eat healthy, however from time to time I also like fast food, especially when I hang out with my friends, we usually enjoy pizzas and burgers.

At school, I must say that I am quite a good student my favourite subjects are history and maths. I also love English! One year ago I spent three and a half months in Ireland, It was such an amazing experience, apart from improving my English, I made a lot of friends there, and I knew a different culture, which is always very important. The main reason why I am applying to spend a whole year in the States is because I would love to know the country and their culture.

I am looking forward to sharing new experiences with you next year. I hope to learn about your daily live,traditions and culture while also sharing my own. I also think English is the most important language in the world, and knowing a good English It is going to help me a lot, of course with my studies but also when I go abroad and I have to speak with other people who don't speak my language . Ii cant wait to meet you and spend one of the best years of my life. I am very grateful to all of you for making that possible to happen.

Yours faithfully

Kisses Alejandra!