Dear host family!

I´m very much looking forward coming to your family. My name is Sara, and I´m from Sweden. I live here together with my family. My mother Annelie, my father Tomas, my brother Daniel and my sister Johanna. Daniel is 14 and Johanna is 9. We also have a dog named Leo and three rabbits. I have a good relationship with all members in my family, and they means very much to me.

I´ve wanted to go studying in the USA ever since my mother told me that she went to College for a year. I´ve never been to the US myself, but I´ve always been very interested in the country and I can´t wait to get to know you and the American culture.

I think that a year as an exchange student will really make me grow as a person and make me more independent and I´m so grateful that you have decided to host a student so that I can have this possibility.

I´m a very happy and energetic person, and I like to do and try new stuff. I don´t have much free time in my weeks, but that´s how I like to have it.

When I´m with my friends I like to just hang out and talk and do a thing that we here in Sweden call “fika”. We do it all the time, and it´s basically just that you go to a café and eat a cookie or something, and then you talk about everything. It´s something we Swedes do a lot, and we can sit there for hours! Other than that my friends and I like to just meet and watch a movie or hang out in church or something. I go to a baptist church here in my hometown, and I absolutely love it!

A typical weekend for me often contains a lot of work and homework, but other than that I try to train with our dog, Leo, and meet my friends. On Friday nights my friends and I often goes to our youth group in church.

In the weeks school and homework takes a lot of the time, but I try to work during the week to, and then I take singing lessons, train agility with my dog and try to find some time to meet my friends. I like photography and editing pictures, so I try to do some photography every now and then during the weeks. Then I of course have to take care of my responsibilities at home. I have some chores that I have to take care of together with my siblings, and then I have to make sure my room is clean and take care of my animals.

In school I read the Social program with focus on media. My favourite subjects will probably be the subjects that contain media, but I also like English and History. Social is quite fun to.