Chantal

April 15 was one of the best daysI had in America. My day started very good. We played in the garden. I showed them a lot of my dance choreos. We played with the 2 little kids and danced Macarena together. In the afternoon we drove to Prescott Mall and looked for presents for my family. I found a lot of things. After the Mall we drove to a Mexican restaurant. The food was very delicious! When I was done with eating I looked around and saw all employees came to our table with an icecup. All people in the restaurant looked at me and the employees called my name thru the whole room and said ' Chantal that's your last weekend in America and I hope you had fun and I wish you a very good flight home to Germany!' Then he gave me the icecup and screamed thru the whole restaurant ' Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy' and all peaople clapped their hands. My host Mom began to cry. Her 10 years old daughter began to cry and then Tina (my host Sister). It was so emotional and awesome to see that I'm a part of her family! The Taylors are such a beautiful family! I made a lot of new friends and we vowed that we will be in contact forever! That's the best trip i ever ade. I love the Taylors sooo much! I don't want to say good bye! It's too sad.... but it was the best experience that i ever made!!!

School Exchange 2012 Yunus Kömecoglu

One word is perfect to describe my feelings: „awesome“

America is a great country and the people here are so friendly. My english isn´t perfect, but no american laughed if I talk. All the boys and girls helped me with my english. Jason is like a brother to me. And my host parents are so friendly, I can´t describe it. It felt like a second home to me. We visited the Grand Canyon and Lynx Lake. It was beautiful. Sometimes we went out to the cinema. The first and second days were difficult, because I didn´t understand much. But then I understood more, because the americans helped me or they explained what they meant. Now I feel so good here. I com home and they talked with me about my day and we joke around. I thought 3 weeks ago that america was a country with unfriendly people and had many overweight people- But it isn´t so. The people here are friendly and I think we have more overweight people in germany. We played paintball in a forest and it was a lot of fun. Jason´s friends were always friendly. I thought here is it not typical to hug girls. But it isn´t a problem, more a typical thing. On the Thursday we went with Kylie to a Game-Hall. There you can play different games. The houses here are really bad. They are nice, but if you hit against the wall, they wobble. The Lake Powell was also beautiful. It is so big and looks more beautiful in real life then on pictures. Today on the breakfast I said: “Maybe I will come back to Arizona in my summer holidays.”

“Really? When you come, you know where you can stay”, said my host mother. I have only experinced good things here. I really love America and I will miss all the people here. I don´t want to fly back to Germany. I´m sad, because I must fly back without my new friends. When I come home, I will text with my new friends. And maybe I will fly back to Arizona. The school here seems better than in Germany, because here the teacher are more friendly. The barbecue on Thursday was nice. All the germans and hosts met each other. We ate a lot of things and had fun. I think this evening was the best one woth our hosts and germans and it´s a shame that it was the only evening. The last sentences I wanna say is:

THANK YOU FOR THIS AWESOME TRAVEL; I CAN´T DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS!!!

BBQ, girls singing together

Lake Powell

Tim supporting Serene's presentation

Tobias

Omg I'm so excited in few minutes I will meet my host family, right know I'm sitting in the bus with all the other exchange students on my way to Prescott. I have a lot of things in my head; How will be my host family? Is it true that all the Americans are fat and if this is the case is my host family also fat? Will I understand them or the most important question is will they understand me? All of these question are in my head. I look out of the window and see the wonderful landscape around me but I am too excited to enjoy the drive. Finally, we arrive in Prescott and see the school. My heart goes faster and faster. Somebody open the door and we can see our host families at the other side of the street. We all talk for a little while before we go out of the bus and to our host families. I'm afraid and the thought are again in my mind. Luckily I was not alone, because Ina, a girl from Germany, was also in my host family. Ina and I see a plaque with our names and go to this sign. Our host sister Mia, her parents and her best friend are standing there and introduce themselves. I say Goodbye to my friends and the adventure America starts We drive to the house of my host family, the house is 30 seconds away from the school and I ask myself why we are not working to the house? In Germany we would make!! We are standing in front of the house. The house is pink, not really my favorite color but I think it has style. Mia shows me my room and I love my new room for the next three weeks. After that he shows me the rest of the house, it's not a very big house but very familiar and I feel good in this house like home. My host family is awesome and I loved them from the beginning. They are so nice and take care of us ,but we are so tired and I'm still a little bit afraid because of my english, that is the reason that I didn't talk so much at this day. It is nine o'clock and I'm going to bed and will see what I can see tomorrow here in America. The next day we have to wake up at 6.30 am and I'm soo tired. At the breakfast I see a man, that I don't know and got first a shock. But he is very nice and talks with me, his name is Brad even if he is not my real host dad for me he is like my host dad. Now we could eat breakfast pancakes with syrup and I'm super hungry, almost starving. Even I'm so hungry I only eat one pancake because I'm not use to eat to breakfast very sweet things. The next thing is, that we getting ready for school. At 7.35 I was done and ready for school but of course we have to wait for the girls. After 5 minutes Brad starts talking with me and tells me what we are going to do today. I like this host family a lot and I'm impressed how this family deals with each other.

Wir sind gut angekommen :D Allen gehts gut! Und jetzt gehts ab ins Bett.

Gruesse aus dem warmen Phoenix von Tim, Pia & Sven und den anderen. :)