Dear Host Family, I’m Valerio and I’m really proud of being part of your family for a year. I’m ready to challenge myself with this journey and I really can’t wait to meet you! This year I hope to have a lot of experiences and discover American culture and food. I’m really excited to spend my time with you. There are three people in my family: me, my mom Valentina and my dad Fabio. I live with my dad, while my mum lives in another house, but we're still a close and loving family and we do a lot of things together. I love spending time with them. We love going to restaurants together, because we have a really good relationship with each other. I don’t have any brothers or sisters, but I have two wonderful grandparents! My grandmother is Rosetta, a very nice and really strong person. My grandfather is Raffaele, he’s strong too and very kind. I think I’m friendly, polite and respectful of everything. I usually do the laundry, I set and clear the table every day and I’m learning to cook. As part of your family, I will happily contribute with house chores as I do in Italy. I hope I can improve my skills in America! Some of my passions are sports, music, coding (I’m still learning), gaming and reading manga or watching anime. I really love two sports: soccer, which I usually watch with my dad or play with my friends during gym class (usually as a goalkeeper), and karate, that I practice three times a week. As I said before, I also love music, because it helps me relax and ease my mind at the end of the day. I have a friend called Nicolò, he’s a producer so he often lets me listen to some of his beats and they are amazing! I really think he will go far with his music (we also did some songs, I’ll be happy to share them with you and know if you like them). Right now I’m working on a Roblox game, and I hope I will finish it before I arrive, so I can let you play! I really like coding, and I’m trying to learn as much as I can because in the future I’d like to own a computer company. Finally, I love watching anime. My favorite one is One Piece (I’m currently on episode 168) but I also like Tokyo Ghoul and Attack on Titan. During the program I hope to build a meaningful relationship with you and I hope I’ll become part of your family! Thank you for this opportunity, see you soon! Love, Valerio