Mhhh, mein Entwurf, was haltet ihr davon???
ich finds noch nich wirklich gut. Weiß jemand was Gruppenbildung heißt????
When I received my host family’s address I was very happy about my placement.
Ukiah is nice. It’s a quite small town but that is no great problem.
But when I visited my school’s homepage, I felt terrible.
It’s a high school with only 18 students what I consider to be exceptionally small. But the most worrying thing is that there are 12 host students.
I expected this program to give me the opportunity to integrate into American everyday-life; to adopt the American way of life as an exchange student among Americans.
I thought this was the aim of such an exchange program.
But in Ukiah I’m an exchange student among exchange students.
There’s a reason that the organisations don’t like friendships among exchange students.
It is harmful to the process of integrating and can lead to the creation of groups of exchange students.
I hoped my problems were exaggerated, so I asked AYUSA to provide me some phone numbers of exchange students who have been to Ukiah. But when I called them they confirmed my worries. They both told me that there is only small contact to American students but a lot of contact within the host students.
I didn’t think I would be placed in a bigger town, and I was told that it could even happen to me that I would be placed in a school with only 50!!! Students. But Ukiah is a high school of 18! But I’m worrying much more about the fact that nearly half of the students at my school are exchange students just like me.
That’s why I’d like to get a new host family.
I already talked to my host parents about it and they told me they wouldn’t take it personally, because a lot of host students would become very unhappy in Ukiah, so they don’t want to force me to come, if I’m not completely sure.
Sincerely,