Meet our students

Dear American Family, Hi! Hope you're doing well! My name is Mohamed. I'm currently a 10th grader in high school. I love robotics, volunteering, and watching TV shows. My family is composed of 6 members: my father, Mounir, a sports teacher my mother, Fathia, a history and geography teacher, my sister Nour, an engineer in Berlin, my sister Mariem, an engineering student in another city in Tunisia and finally, there's me and my cat Milou, he's a part of the family. On weekends, we enjoy movie n

Hi, I'm a shy girl at first, but when I feel comfortable, I talk a lot and don't stop anymore. I love dogs, I have two, Tereza and Matilde, and I love playing with them. I love watching Brazilian football. My team is Cruzeiro and I go to the games with my brother. Sometimes I watch American football, but only the Super Bowl. My dream job would be in international relations. At the American school, I really wanted to be able to participate in activities that don't exist in mine, here in Bra

Hello Dear Host Family, My name is Ahmet Emir, and I'm 15 years old. I'm a student from Turkey. I study at 11th grade at highschool. I'm a blind person but I don't think being visually impaired restricts me to do anything. I like to develope my self at every point for being into life. I try to solve my problems my own as I can and I don't hesitate to ask for help when I need. I'm very excited for the chance to join your family! I love computers, and my goal is to become a softwar

Hello, my future Host Family! I'm Meza, a 16-year-old student, and I'm thrilled to introduce myself to you! Right now, I live in a dormitory for high school, which has been a big change for me since I've always been close to my family. It's been an exciting experience too, living away from home has taught me to be more independent and responsible, skills I know will be useful during my stay with you. I come from a family who means the world to me. I'm the only son and the second grandchildren

Dear American Family, I hope you find this letter in the best health possible. I am currently studying in 10th grade at the age of 16. I have a family of 5. We enjoy sitting together, laughing, talking and sharing how our day went. We also like to experience new things and go out. I have a lot of responsibilities at home from doing chores to bringing groceries and helping my mother with other things such as cooking. My interest mainly lies in International Relations and environmental bette

Dear host family, My name is Aurèle and I live in a small village of 280 inhabitants surrounded by large forests that allow me to have regular contact with nature. My parents, Fanny and Guillaume, are married. I have an older sister and an older brother who is 18. Every morning, I take the bus at 7am with my brother to go to school. I start my classes at 8am in the morning and usually finish by 4pm in the afternoon. Then I have handball practice twice a week, and then a game on the weekend

Dear American Family, With excitement more than ever, I would like to introduce myself as Zoha . Well! Hi I come from the rural and northern area of Pakistan where family gathering and dry fruits are valued a lot. My family has six members including; my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brother and me. It is very rare that I get to enjoy with my family as I live in a hostel but whenever I do it is fun. From water fights in summer to making hot chocolate in the winter then making the most out of my

Dear American Family, Hello, my name is Fatima, though my family members and friends call me Izzy, and I'd like if you did the same. I was born into a family with four older brothers and no sisters, my mother had a daughter before me but she sadly passed away before I was born which makes me a Replacement child (a term used to refer to a child conceived shortly after the parents have lost another child) being an only girl and being very young compared to my brothers led to my parents being ve

Dear American Family, I am Dakshinya, a 10th-grade student . I come from a small, happy nuclear family where love, positive relationships, and a strong sense of togetherness make life fulfilling. My father is a traditional weaver, and my mother, a homemaker, assists with weaving during festival times. I have a younger brother in 8th grade. In my free time, I enjoy reading books, listening to music, and playing carrom and cricket. I also love helping my mother with weaving threads and take pri

Dear American family, My name is Olaya. I am a 14 years old girl who lives in Madrid (Spain). I go to a public high school close to my home (it is 1 mile from my home). I like to go to school as I enjoy learning and spending time with my friends there. My mother is a teacher at Complutense University in Madrid, where she teaches Marketing Research and Neuromarketing. She cooks very well and she likes to try new recipes that she imagines so we eat a lot of wonderful meals everyday. I like to g

Dear Host Family, My name is Yu Han (Lexie), and I am excited to be visiting you from Taiwan. I would like to express my sincere gratitude for welcoming me into your home. This opportunity to immerse myself in your local life and culture means a lot to me, and I look forward to the wonderful experiences ahead, especially the time we will spend together. While I’m generally outgoing, I tend to a bit reserved when meeting new people. Once I get to know someone, however, I am sociable and open. I

Dear Host Family, Hello! My name is Kyryl, and I am very happy to write this letter to you. I’m very excited about the opportunity to live with you and experience life in a new country. I’d love to get to know you and become a part of your family during my stay. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am a big fan of football and have been playing it for many years. It is my favorite sport, and I enjoy both - watching and playing it whenever I can. I also love animals (especially cats

Dear Host Family, I hope you are all doing well! I am incredibly excited about the chance to become part of your family and experience everyday life in your country. Thank you so much for opening your home and giving me the opportunity to take part in this adventure. Let me tell you a bit more about myself. I would describe myself as a friendly, open-minded, and curious person. I enjoy spending time with others, whether it’s with my family, friends, or new people I meet. At home, I like h

Dear Host Family, Hello, I hope you’re doing well! My name is Tsetsengun, I’m from Mongolia. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my letter and considering me as a potential member of your family through EDEX Education and Exchange Agency. I want to exchange our countries' cultures with each other. About my advantages, I have time management skills, I can easily adapt to new places, also I can get up so early on myself, I’m a helpful and patient person. When I fill water to the bu

Dear host family, I am excited to write to you about my self and who I am. I am Hussein and my friends call me "Courtois" like the goalkeeper of Real Madrid because I am a good goalkeeper too, and I am an Egyptian student. I live beside the school, so it takes me about 10 minutes to arrive. My dad drives me and my brothers to the school. I have 2 younger brothers, and they are 11 years old and 7 years old, and we enjoy playing soccer and doing many activities together, and I have a kitten

Dear Host Family, My name is Micaela, I’m 16 years old, and I live in Brazil. Before telling you a bit about myself, I’d like to thank you for this incredible opportunity you’re giving me. Live this year with your family in USA will be a dream coming true, and I’m so excited to learn about your culture and share a little bit of mine as well. I live with my mom and our two dogs. My mom and I love going to the mall to watch movies and eat, we also like to go to the gym, to the park, and go s

Dear future host family, First of all, I would like to thank you for giving me the incredible opportunity to make my dream of an exchange year possible, that means a lot to me! I also hope that you are well, and before we will be able to get to know each other, I will tell you something about myself, my hobbies, my family and something about school, then something about my interests and about my character. My name is Mia-Sophie, but everyone calls me Mia, so you can also call me Mia a

Hello host family, I am very excited to meet you. Since I was 8 years old, it has always been my dream and I have waited a long time for this day to be able to share with a culture, a new school, new friends. I know that it will be a little difficult at first to separate from my family. and friends but I know it's going to be a wonderful year I'm going to put my best attitude and I'm sure that you too are going to have many anectodes together host family, I consider myself someone very kind, hap

Dear Host Family, My name is Gabriel and I am very excited about the opportunity to live this exchange experience in the United States. I want to learn about a new culture, improve my English and grow as a person. I spent my entire childhood listening to stories from my father, my aunt and even my grandmother about the experience of being an Exchange student. They all also went on exchange to the USA when they were around 16 or 17 years old. It has become a tradition in the family to go on

Dear Host family Hi I'm Francisca! I'm from Chile, Im still in high school and I really like travelling and meeting new cultures, Including American culture thats why I want to learn about it and experience it. I like doing sports like artistics gymnastics, wacthing movies and series, and going out with my friends to places like the beach or the mall. Im organized and responsible about my studies because they really matter to me and my future. I also enjoy going out with my family, some

Dear American Family, I am Aljood and I am eager to introduce myself and my interests to potentially have the opportunity to be an exchange student at the YES program. My family consists of me, my parents, and my brother. We cherish our quality time together, spending our time engaging in activities such as baking, and since we have a farm, we often visit and pick up fruits and vegetables in their season. We also had two cats a while back and we used to play with them and enjoy our times toge

Dear Host Family, I am a 16-year-old Brazilian girl, currently in the junior year of high school, and I have always had many dreams. One of them was to do an exchange program abroad, and throughout this process, everything has been wonderful. I am very excited about the opportunity to stay with you and get to know your family! I would like to take this moment to introduce myself and share a little about who I am. I consider myself a friendly, open-minded, and respectful person. I really en

Hi dear host family, my name is Natalia. I live with my mom, my dad, my brother, and a little dog. My mother’s name is Tatiana, and she is a doctor. She supports me in everything I need, and we spend a lot of time together. My father’s name is Marcos, and he’s a businessman who owns a napkin factory. He’s an incredible dad. My brother’s name is Gabriel, and he is very special to me. I do many things with him, and we spend a lot of time together. Sometimes, I play video games with him, but I’m no

Dear Host Family, My name is Leonard, and I am very excited about the opportunity to become a part of your family and experience life in your country. I am from Germany and have always been curious about other cultures and ways of life. This exchange is a big step for me, and I’m looking forward to the adventure and everything I will learn from it. At home, I enjoy spending time with my friends and family. I like sports, especially rowing and basketbal, and I also enjoy listening to music

Dear Future Host Family, I hope this letter finds you well! My name is Artem, and I’m so excited about the opportunity to become part of your family during the exchange program. I’d like to share a bit about myself so you can get to know me better and decide if I’ll be a good match for your family. I live with my parents in a big house with a pool, which is one of our favorite places to spend time together, especially during the summer. Family is very important to me, and we have a traditi

Dear Host Family, I hope you are well, my name is Martin and I'm applying to do a High School Exchange, I am very excited about who is going to be my next parents. I want to share with you some things about me and to check if I am a good volunteer for you. I am a very sociable person, who likes to make new friends and meet new people. I like singing, actually, when I am taking a shower, I always sing at the shower and i like to hear music all the time, i like al kind of music like: electr

Dear Host Family, I’m writing to introduce myself and to say how grateful I am for the opportunity to live with you for a year. It means a lot to me, and I’m looking forward to meeting you and becoming part of your daily life. I’m currently in my second year of high school in France. I’m excited about this exchange because I want to improve my English, discover American culture, and experience everyday life in a new environment. I know this will be a unique and meaningful adventure, and I tr

Hello my future host family, I'm looking forward to meeting you, I consider myself to be an outgoing person, I love sports and having fun with my friends and family. One of the things I enjoy most is traveling, getting to know the culture and food of other countries, especially food, as I love to eat and cook. I have a great relationship with my family. Other things I like to do are to play video games and watch sports. Finally, I consider myself to be an easy-going person, who likes to have f

Dear family My name is Amelia, and I’m from Spain. There are three people in my family: my mother, her boyfriend, and me. I don’t have a father because my mom is a single mom, and I think it’s important for you to know that. Lately, we’ve been very happy together and have a lot of trust. I like playing padel, and I’m good at it, but when I’m there, I would like to try another sport. I’m not very sporty, but I think it’s always good to try new things. As for music, I like reggaeton, but I als

Dear host family My name is Aitana, I live with my mother Nidia, my little brother Joaquin and my grandmother Gloria, my parents are separated so I don't live with my father, but he still visits us almost every week. Despite everything, we are still a very close family in which we are always in contact or sharing moments together. At first, I will probably be quiet or shy about my English, but once I gain confidence it will change a bit and I will be more relaxed. I consider myself a quiet

Dear future host family, Thanks you so much for being willing to participate in the exchange program and considering me to potentially live together with your family for some time. I’m a French boy. I generally like to try new things, and I really would like to explore a new country and new culture such as the USA. I love listening to music, I am very sociable and also like very much sports. I also love cinema and movies, as well as watching Formula One competition. When practicing sports, I

Dear host family, My name is Guilherme, I am 16 years old and I live in Brazil. I live with my mother, father and older sister. In the morning I usually go to school and I dedicate myself a lot to it. In the afternoon I usually do different activities every day. I take soccer lessons and go to the gym every day. I started playing soccer when I was 4 years old and since then I have been playing every year and I am passionate about the sport. I love watching the news, games, documentaries and ev

First of all, thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I’m truly excited about the opportunity to be part of a new family and experience a different culture. I hope this letter helps you get to know me a little better and see if we’d be a good match. I consider myself a very social, friendly, funny, and open-minded person. I love meeting new people, making friends, and learning from different perspectives. One of the things I’m most looking forward to is expanding my circle beyond my

Dear host family. I am Alvaro, a chilean boy, in this letter I will write about myself, my tastes and my life, so that you can get to know me. I am very excited to be a part of this experience and I want to thank you for accepting me into your family. First I will talk about my home, I live with my mother, my grandparents and my dog, in a city on the coast, we really enjoy traveling and seeing new places, we really like having movie nights on the weekends and we really like living near t

Hello, my future host family! My name is Timur, and I am from Ukraine! I hope I will have the opportunity to study and live with your family for a whole year. I am really looking forward to this chance to live with you and learn more about your culture, lifestyle, and traditions. I am very grateful that you are opening your home to me, and I hope we will have a wonderful year together. A little about me: I am from Ukraine, but for the 2024-2025 academic year, I am living and studying at

Dear Host Family, Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. My name is Noé, I’m very happy to be writing these lines because they mark the beginning of an adventure I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: spending a year in the United States with an American family ! So it’s time to discover a new culture, meeting people and making new friends. It’s a real personal challenge but I’m also very excited ! I live in a small village in the south of France with my parents, my li

Dear Host Family, My name is Louis and actually I am in 9* grade. I am a student passionate about discovering new cultures, new places and new peoples. Living with you would help me to learn and discover the depth about your culture and understand your lifestyle and becoming bilingual, while sharing mine. I am sure this experience will have a huge impact on my levels in English. Ever since I was little I have always been curious about the world and all cultures so I read many books and seen m

Dear host family: Thank you for being willing to welcome and accept me to live with you. I am a boy who lives in Chile and I am in the first year of high school. I would like to do different things like learning about American culture and learning to speak English fluently. I like to read fantasy books. I am a sociable, funny, kind and respectful person. I like sports but especially soccer and tennis. I only speak Spanish and I would like to speak English fluently. I can play the guitar

Hi, my name is Alejandro and I am 14 years old, I will be 15 in July. I am very excited to have the opportunity to study in the US. I consider myself a calm, shy and familiar person and I am also responsible. I really want to live this experience, and I would like to know more about the United Sates, the history, culture and the way you live. Thanks for hosting me, I will be more than happy and will do my best to adapt to your family and your traditions. I enjoy being with friends and

Dear Host Family, My name is Leandro, and I’m very excited about the opportunity to spend a year with your family in the United States. Thank you so much for welcoming me into your home! I’m from Brazil, and I enjoy staying active and trying new things. I love playing soccer and spending time on the water with activities like wake surfing and wakeboarding. My faith is also very important to me, and I enjoy going to church and participating in community gatherings. On weekends, I like hangi

Dear Host Family, Thank you so much for being willing to participate in the exchange program and accepting me to live with your family. I am a 16 year old Brazilian boy and I want to have the experience of living and studying abroad. I want to learn about American life and culture. I love playing and watching soccer. I am very dedicated, hard-working, and creative. I love traveling and going to the beach, I like to go out with my friends, to go to the cinema, to play videogames, to go to th

Dear Host Family thank you for spendig your time to read my letter. My name is Davi and I am from Brazil. I love to live here for being a place with very receptive people with great parks, and many cultural events, always taste to leave here with my friends for shoppings, cinemas, theaters, parks and shows. I am currently living with my mom and my dad, who are very careful and responsible people. My parents are very friendly and understanding, but they are strict when the subject is educa

Dear American Family, At first take my love. I hope you all are well. I'm well too. I'm Md Labib. I'm from Bangladesh . I'm almost 16 years old and currently studying in grade 10. My family consists of four members. I'm one of two siblings.I enjoy eating with my family , discussing daily lives, preparing meals together. Sometimes we travel together and explore new places. I have many responsibilities at home like taking care of my health, keeping my own thing organized and helping with dai

Dear American Family, It is pleasure for me to introduce myself. I am Farhan. I belong to a middle class family. My father is a government employee. My mother is a teacher. I have an elder brother and five sisters. I studied till my primary education in my home town then I started studying in a boarding institution. I love all of my siblings and family. We spend a good time together and enjoy a lot. At weekends and in our spare time, we play video games together. We also study together. I

Dear host family, My name is Manuel, I'm 14 years old and I'm from Spain. I'm super excited for this experience and for meeting you. I've wanted to make an exchange program for a long time, and now that I have the opportunity to live in the United States for a while, I can't be happier. I'm a pretty calm, responsible and organized guy. I like to follow the rules and do things right, but I also know how to have fun. I love sports, especially soccer, which I have practiced since I was little

Dear host family, My name is Sergio. I live with my parents and my brother, whom I appreciate very much because he has taught me many things throughout my life. I get along very well with my entire family and we are very happy. My family is a little big because I have 11 uncles, 12 cousins ​​and 2 grandparents. We all get along very well and we are a very fun family and I have a great time with them. My school life is good since I have many friends at school and I get along quite well wit

Dear host family, Thank you very much for agreeing to take part in the exchange program and for welcoming me into your family. I'm a young Frenchman who has just finished his year of seconde. I like to try new things and explore the world, including America. I want to discover American culture and share your life. I'm direct, creative and fun-loving. I like sports, like badminton, tennis, and I really enjoyed the time I tried baseball. I speak two languages, French and a minimum of