Exchange 2008

This Exchange program was an amazing experience, I love the way that the program show us the live of a family who have another culture and it make us get, for a month, in the life of that family, an take other points of view, that’s make us grow and have personal opinion, we lived different experiences and with them we could realised that the way we live it’s not the only, and it’s make you to accept more the differences too.

We all were so nervous when we arrived to Portland, the moment to know your family had came. But when the time passed the relation with my family was so good, they were and still being, so nice with me, they are a really friendly family, all the time they were worried about me, they asked me if I was comfortable or if it was anything that I wanted to do.
We passed really good times together.

In the school all the girls were really nice with us; they wanted to know more about us, so most of them invited us to her classes, it was really cool. The school was different, the students had to choose her own schedules, and they had the same schedules in all the week, just the period of the classes changed, and also they had to move all the time to a different room; sometimes they could be in the same room with a senior or a junior, they are all mix together, so they know each other with all the students of the school. I like the school because most of the students were different and they did´t care.

The time passed so fast and the four weeks had end, we had to say good bye to our families and let our routine in Maine, it was really sad, because we know that we are not going to come back, and we were having so much fun in there, but the tour were coming!.

All the tour was very fun, but I think that Boston it’s the best city that we visited, I really like it.
New York it’s really fun you will never get bored in there, all the museums, the building were amazing, just walking you have fun because there are a lot of different people.
Washington it’s a quit city, really secure; the best thing that we saw in Washington was the museum of the Holocaust; it was amazing I can say that it’s the best museum that I had saw.

In general we had an amazing month and a half, all the time that we passed was really fun, the people that you know, the differences, the places, it’s a really good experience and I am very glad to have gone to this trip.

María Esperanza Grez