Her name is Alison and she is going to Germany with the Congress-Bundenstag scholarship. And this is her:
I will miss her dearly, and along with her I will also miss my opportunity to travel to a different country my senior year. However, her CIEE coordinator informed her that there were still a bunch of students traveling to the USA Aug-June that need to be placed with host families, otherwise they can't come. So Ali, knowing my yearn to learn about new cultures, sent me the e-mail and my family and I have since begun an application to host one of the many students needing housing.
With all of this foreign exchange talk in the air, I'm begining to realize how desensatized I am to our culture. I take everything that happens in this country as a fact of life, a rule of thumb...I often forget how different things must be in different countries. One of the things I had thought of was our mailing system...I mean, maybe if our foreign exchange student comes here they'll be blown away by the fact that each house has a mailbox that a small truck delivers letters to and that mail doesn't arrive only on Sundays.
Weird, ain't it?
Also the rules and laws we live under here aren't world-wide law. I'm consciously aware of that, but still-thinking about it more it becomes more real.
I really hope I can live in a different country at some point in my life, I just kind of wish it were this year.
But I will keep updating this as we go through the process of possibly hosting a foreign exchange student.
