Changing Host Families

Hello there! ⍟

On Saturday I finally moved to my second host family.

Finally!!! Me and Eleonora looked forward to it so much. My second family is super nice, and even though their kids are also both in College, they just feel so much better and refreshing. And the best thing is: They live about 3 minutes away from Eleonora's house! We're practically neighbors, and from now on we will take the buses to school together every day! I'm so excited! (I'm not excited about waking up at 6 though)

My first host family.

Until now I kinda avoided talking about my first host family, not because I didn't want to share it, but I guess I was afraid that they would somehow find it and read it or whatever. So I won't mention their names or anything, but I can tell you, it was a weird family. I didn't feel well at all. At first they were nice, but with the time they became less and less interested and the last couple of weeks I felt like they didn't care about me at all. Especially the host mom. And since their children were both adults, and the host father was working a lot, I spend most days only with her. And she just always seemed annoyed by me and when we talked she would just tell me about her job, about the history of Iowa, or movies. Over and over and over. The TV was on 24 hours a day and she never asked me anything. I mean, if I spend the weekend over at Deb's house and we went to different concerts and had Homecoming, you would usually ask how it was right? I mean that's just the normal thing isn't it? But oh no. Not a single word. Nothing. I just couldn't talk with her at all, about nothing! I tried to feel better, tried to talk with her, tried all kinds of things but she would just keep being rude and whatever. It just never felt like home to me, or that I was a part of their family. Never.

I think the reason for me to be able to stay for such a long time (Three months and six days) was because I had my saviors, Deb and Eleonora's family. Deb took me to so many places, we went riding, and when I talked to her about wanting to change families she really tried so hard to find another family and she talked to my host mom and knew how I felt and she was just great. And Eleonora's family is just awesome.

A letter to El.

So since I'm talking about my saviors right now anyway, I thought I could also respond to the cutest letter that Eleonora wrote on my laptop, without any reason, just before we were going to the most exciting basketball game ever! (You know what I mean El). So this might be not as fun for anyone else to read but whatever, it's for Eleonora.

Hey El!
So I can only say it again, but your letter was soo cute and I was so happy when I read it! I feel the same in every way, and you can't believe how glad I am to have found a friend like you here, in Iowa. I would've never thought that someone could mean so much to me in this short time, but in these three months we became so close that I could never imagine being here without you. We had so many moments that I will never forget in my life, so many fun things we did together. We can laugh together, we can talk, we can be stupid and we can be serious. I really feel like I can be myself with you and you are one of the nicest, funniest, honest and cutest people I've ever met! You're just truly wonderful! Whenever I look at the pictures you hung up in my new room, it makes me smile. And actually I'm eating these awesome brownies as I'm writing this (I took them far away from the dog so he couldn't eat them this time haha) and they are delicious. So thank you so much, for everything!!! I'm looking forward to every minute we will still spend together (and there will be a lot I know that) and if you want or not, I will definitely stick around you even after this exchange year! (Only if we survive the winter here ahaha)
Ti amo,
Your Stolker ♥

Stay tuned!

Bye ⍟