Dear host family, thanks for giving me the opportunity to stay in your house, i'm very excited to know, learn, and live your culture. I really want to know more about living in the USA, and learn to be more independent, I'm very excited to see the yellow school bus, an American football game, a cheerleader, live the Thanksgiving, the Halloween, the Christmas and other amazing things. In Brazil I have a lot of friends, and I love hang out with them, to go to the cinema, or eat a burger, or stay in someone's house playing board games, or talking about dreams, plans, funny and sometimes sad or happy things, I'm very close of a lot of my friends, in some situation I'm a fun girl who makes the others laugh. My family is always my base and my comfort place, I'm very close to my parents, they always help me when I have problems, I have a younger brother, he is so fun, we are always together, he wants to be a professional soccer player, we always encourage him, in my house I have 2 dogs and 1 cat, how sleep with me every day, all of them are adopted. I'm very close to my grandparents too, on Saturday we usually go to eat pizza, I love this moment, they are very kind and always do everything they can for me. I don't know yet, what I'm going to do in university. In school I'm a good student, all of my teachers like me, and always talk about how funny, respectful and dedicated I am. I love to participate in the science fair, to present the project, and help to make them. I have already participated in the history olympics In my life I have already tried a lot of sports, like swimming, volleyball, beach tennis, judo, and nowadays I do a Brazilian sport called "futevôlei" a mixture of volleyball and soccer in the sand, and I go to the gym with my mom and my brother, I do dance too, ballet since I was a kid, jazz, tap dancing, and I have already tried belly dancing. I like to try new things, and I really want to learn more sports in the USA I love do handicraft, diamond painting, little things for dolls, paint, I already learned crochet, because my grandmother taught me. I love everything about make and fashion, I love put on my makeup. I'm catholic and I'm studying to receive the sacraments of the Catholic church, but I don't have problems to learn more about another Christian religion In the morning I'm not my best version, I don't talk a lot, I'm sleepy and slow. My parents always say to me, you have to try different kinds of foods, I try, but I don't like a lot of things like spicy things and raw. Best wishes, Valentina