Ummm... so can we talk about the fact that I'll be heading off to DC in two days to embark on the adventure of a lifetime?! Actually, we're going to be talking about something else: my host family!
This year I'll be living in a city called Wetzlar in the state of Hesse. Wetzlar has a population of over 50,000 (quite a difference from the small Vermont town I live in with less than 5,000 people). The closet big city to us is Frankfurt; it's about 45min away. I've done a bit of searching via Google Maps and Wikipedia, and my conclusion is that Wetzlar looks like an absolutely gorgeous place to live.
I have two host sisters, (Nina is 17 and Sarah is 20), a host mother, a host father, and a host dog. They seem like a fantastic group of people. My host parents own a butchery. All that fresh and readily available meat might cause me to gain the classic exchange student weight. Thankfully, my host family is also very active, so that should help prevent too much weight gain. I've skyped with Nina a few times now and I chat with her often on Facebook. She's fluent in English because she was an exchange student in the US two years ago. We seem to have hit it off so far, but I can't wait to meet her and the rest of my family in person. I think we'll be a pretty good match.
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