Mein erster Brief an die Gast-Eltern. ♥

Dear Host Family,

First off all I'm very grateful that you want to accept an exchange student as a new family member in your home for 10 Months. I'm appreciate your hospitality and I hope it will become a wonderful experience for you and me. I'm glad that I get the chance to make such a great and invaluable experience and I can improve my written and spoken English.

I never was before in Canada, but it was still a dream.

My name is (**NAME**)  and I get (**YEAR**) years old at the (**DAY**)^th. of August. I'm a really active, athletic, gentle and outgoing girl who likes to laugh. My brother (**NAME**) is (**YEAR**) years old and my (**YEAR**) years old sister called (**NAME**). I really get along great with them and we always help each other, whether there are school problems or any other kinds. My parents are (**NAME**) ((**YEAR**)) and (**NAME**) ((**YEAR**)). Uwe works for a construction company as a construction engineer. Sabine works as self-employed physical therapist .

We live in a suburb of Hanover, called (**NAME**). I like it really much, because it's just a small village with a lot of landscape, but the city, where I actually go shopping, is only 27 kilometer away. When I go by train I need usually 40 till 45 minutes.

During my free time I like to play netball, Hip Hop dancing, ballroom dancing and photograph. One of my favorite sports is skiing. I go on ski vacation in Austria with my parents once a year and it's highlight every time.

My dancing group and me have got a lot of success at championships. We were on the championship in Holland, called ''Dutch Open''. It was our first championship and we wan the third rank.
At the other both we win and get a big cup.

In the summer I oft go swimming on an open air pool and meet my friends there.

In the winter I do the ice skating with friends and family.
I also often list to music, and sing to this songs. At the end of the school year I perform with the school-band on a student convocation.

In the last summer vacation my parents and me were in the Turkey. There I learned to kite surfing, it was fun, and at the and of the vacation I stand 2 minutes on the board. A really feeling if success.

I love my whole family, and I proud that we all get along. They are very important in my life and give me a feeling of security and fortitude in all things I do. My grandma and me were going sometimes in a theater which is in Hanover downtown. Some days my parents and me hike in the forest ''Deister'', which is near to our small village.
Also I meet my friends, we go to the small town Barsinghausen and eat ice cream or just laughing and talk.

I get some experience in my summer vacation with my family in America for three weeks in 2010.

First we saw New York City. I'm really interested in this big town and the time square.
We visited the Empire State Building, the Central Park, the Ground Zero and also the Rockefeller Center. I could live there for few months or few years but for my whole live it's to stressful and needs getting used.

After New York we arrived in California, and visited San Francisca. There we make a bicycle tour over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Than we we saw the Sequoia National Park. We are climbed and hiked to the top and I loved the view. We all had so much fun.
And last we visited our friends in Kentucky. My dreams came true and I drove with a quad bike. I enjoyed it and behold the nature.

It was great to saw the American culture and people and to enjoy this wonderful country with all his possibilities.
This three weeks were a motivation to spend a year in an english-speaking country.

During this year aboard I imagine to gain linguistical and cultural experience.

I think it a very hard challenge for my self to leave my whole family and all my friends, but I want to take up this challenge . From now on I look forward to spend a year in Canada.

I choose Canada because I find the nature of Canada arresting and I imagine that the life there is very nice and exciting.
I see it like a big chance alongside the linguistical aim coevally Canada, a country where I already want to go, to discover.
Best regards Luisa.