My family is hosting a student next year, the other end of my leaving this year. Something that I didn't expect however is that this student would be- not just from Belgium- but from a town 10 minutes away from mine! The reason that this is so cool is that normally exchanges are not direct country to country. I was expecting someone from Argentina, Spain, Japan, honestly, anywhere but where I am now! It's amazing how that turned out! I've sent her a couple of emails in English and in French- her name is Isaline and I think that we are going to hang out soon! It will be so cool to have someone from Belgium living with me in the U.S. next year... I'm honestly so excited to be a host sister!
With all this talk of new exchange students, I started looking through my old emails and facebook messages with my now host families. This time last year I was emailing Florence and Marianne asking them about their lives- trying to imagine what living in Belgium could possibly be like. And now I am here, with my host family, basically fluent in a language that I barely knew two years ago. The phenomenon (for me, anyway) isn't how fast time has gone, but that this year has actually brought me to this previously unimaginable place.
With all this talk of new exchange students, I started looking through my old emails and facebook messages with my now host families. This time last year I was emailing Florence and Marianne asking them about their lives- trying to imagine what living in Belgium could possibly be like. And now I am here, with my host family, basically fluent in a language that I barely knew two years ago. The phenomenon (for me, anyway) isn't how fast time has gone, but that this year has actually brought me to this previously unimaginable place.