Dear future host family, Hi my name is Klara and first of all thank you for taking time to read my letter and get to know me. I’m already so excited to live in an American household and to have the possibility of spending my exchange year with you in America. I hope this letter gives you the chance to get to know me better and gives you an idea of who I am. About me and my family: When I was 10 years old I heard the first time about an exchange year and since then I wanted it to do and live my dream in America. And here I am, writing my letter to my future host family and I’m so happy to meet you and make livelong memories with you. I’m an open and spontaneous person who tries to make as many memories as possible and I also love to expierence new things like new cities, new shops and new food places. I also love to connect myself with new people. I always try to make people feel comfortable and I try to make them laugh. When I have stories to tell I talk about it all the time so I’m a very talkative person. I always have so fun to listen to funny stories for example from my friends. And I’m already exited to hear the stories from your family! When I’m bored I often try a new recipe, most of them are from Instagram or TikTok but also sometimes from my mum, my grandma or my friends, sometimes they are really good and I do them often but sometimes they are just a big fail. I also love to travel and and see new places, i think the best holidays are the summer break or the Easter holidays because there we go to warm places like the sea or to a lake. I like the sea the most because you can do so much there. When I’m at the sea I love the most to just lay in the sund under a parasol or go diving and snorkeling. I’m also a person who loves to do a movie night on the couch with snacks and sweet treats because sometimes I just don’t have the energy to be around so much people and then I need those nights with my family or close friends. But the nights I do go out with my friends are always the funniest. When I’m out with my friends we often go to eat something like sushi, pasta but sometimes also fast food. Then we sit on a bench, we just walk or sometimes we go to someone Home. Me and my friends also love go to a near City and go shopping there and try out new food Spots, our favorit food is Acai Bowl with strawberrys and burgers. And also sometimes we get our nails done but not often because our parents dont allow it often. I think now you want to get to know my family. My dad Fabian, but everyone says Fabi to him, loves to grill or hangout in the garden. My mum Jennifer , but everyone call her Jenny, loves to do sports or go with her friends in cafes and drink coffee. I have two brothers, my older brother Paul is 16 and my younger brother Max is 11. We all play Hockey but in different teams. My hobbies and interests: As you already know, I play field hockey with an amazing team. I started to play field hockey 4 years ago because I also played tennis and danced ballet but I didn’t have so much fun doing ballet and tennis, so I decided to just play hockey. But now I could imagine to start dancing again but not ballet but contampory dance. Maybe I can start it in the US. But what I would most like to do in the US is to join the cheerleading team at my school if they have one. But I could really imagine to join a dance team there too. Or an athletic team. I’m also interested to learn new recepies, here at home I often bake brownies and banana bread or I cook potatoes with fried or scrambled eggs, I also love to eat pancakes.I can’t wait to bake and cook with you and try new recipes. When our neighbours had babies and children I often took care of them, so I can deal very well with little children. My expectation for my exchange year: Of course i also have seen the perfect exchanges years like what you see everywhere on Tiktok. I already know that in the most cases it will not be like, what you see on social media. But i have the american dream and i hope that it will come to reality. Like the high school football games on fridays evenings, hoco and all those cool things you see everywhere. But i also want to experience the american life, and what it's like to go shopping in an American supermarket or all the new stores we don’t have here in my country.I have always wanted to go to America and i hope my imagination and dream will come true with you by my side. Thank you so much for reading my letter! I’m already so excited and I’m looking forward to meeting you! Warm regards from Klara