I'm about to live the best experience of my life. I am from Portugal and I am about to go study to the usa.
( BTW I use my real identity in this story and the girl in the photo is also me)
I have been in this plane for 11 hours now and I only have 45 minutes left to arrive. All this time at the plane I have been listening to music and some kids cries. I can not wait to arrive and meet my hostfamily. I'm so tired so I decide to ask for a coffee " excuse me, can you please bring me a coffee?", the beautiful hostess looks at me and gives me a smile " sure".
I look out the window and the dark sky has me fascinated, soon the hostess arrives with my coffe and I thank her giving her my best tired smile.
I look at the little screen and I see that I only have 30 minutes left to get to Houston so I watch a few more youtube videos, hopefully time will pass fast.
"I ask all the passengers to belt your sit belt, we are going to land" I heard the pilot say and after that everyone belts their sit belt, I follow everyone's actions. When I look out the window and I can see the building's lights and I can not help but smile, I can't believe it.
We land and everybody starts getting out to the gates and I am about to meet my hostfamily. Questions and worries start to appear in my head, are they going to like me? am I going to be like a family member? will the kids accept me well? what if I do not like them? what if nobody likes me at school? what if I can not communicate?
With all these questions in my mind I don't even realise I am already in the arrivals gate, I look around and I see a group of 5-7 people holding a poster saying " welcome to the USA Inês" immediately I know that those people are my family, I start walking over to them and a little girl starts running towards me with a huge smile, I assumed it was Riley since she looked around 4. I bent down and open my arms for her to give me a hug and she did " hi I'm Riley" she said in the sweetest toddler voice as she puuled away from the hug, " hi I'm Inês, its so nice to meet you".
" This young lady can never wait" I heard a lady say, I look up and see my hostmom smiling down for me and for Riley.
"Hi I'm Karen your hostmom, its so nice to meet you, you're so pretty" I got up and give her a genuine smile " Hi Karen..", " No no no, call me mom" at that moment I knew that I had the best hostfamily I could ever ask for.
I met everybody and so far I am already loving the family, I love my siblings, I can not wait to take care of the younger ones. After taking a few arrival pictures we finally head over to the car " so Inês, do you have mcdonald's in Portugal" I laugh at Dylan's question, I was loving this boy already he seemed so funny and he was also cute, ok Inês stop, " of course we do".
"the best soccer player is also portuguese right? Cristiano Ronaldo?"Dylan continues with the questions, " yes he is, he was born in a portuguese Island called Madeira", the rest of the ride I keep answering questions about me and my country.
"Ok we are home" my dad says as he pulls in the driveway of the house I have seen at the agency, it looked even more beautiful, my whole family had allowed me to cal them as they were my real family and not by their names so I really felt like I was home.
We all get out of the car and get inside the house and what I see inside is even more beautiful than the outside. My mom does a house tour so I know every part of the house but thre is one room that I have not seen yet.....my room.
"Are you ready to see your room?" my mom asked me and I gave her a smile " yes!", she leaded me to a door and when I opened it I saw the most beautiful room I have ever seen.
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"OMG its amazing!"
"Do youlike it?"
"I love it! Thank you so much!!"
"You're welcome honey, now lets get your things and after that I think you might need to sleep" my mom told me as we walked out of the room.
