Halo! My name is Dhani Alhamidi Lubis. I am from North Sumatera, Indonesia. This is my first newsletter. I am one of AFS students, who are send to US YP 2015-2016. I write this letter to inform you all about my experience during my first month in USA.
I have received the information about my host family a little late, it was about 3 months. I got the information 2 days before my departure. It was so sudden. I had have to prepare my suitcase and all of the stuff less than a day. I was very exhausted. I arrived in US on Sept, 17th 2015(US time), US time is 12 hours late than Indonesias. I stayed overnight in Chicago and I continued my flight to Duluth in the next morning. My liason picked me up at the airport and we drove 1 hour away to got Washburn. I was placed in Washburn, Wisconsin. Any way, I traveled alone and it was amazing experience for me.
Finally, I met my hostmom at night. She looked forward on me. I was very excited. After that, I took a nap until 8pm. My hostfather called for having dinner. Both of them asked me about my flight, my family, Indonesia and many other things. I started school on the next Monday. I had have to go to school although I was still in jetlag. On my first day school, everyone was very friendly and kind with me. I picked some kind of social class like Accounting, personal finance, and the other classes. I like all of my class so much. The next day, everything was going well at school. My school has a lot of new system that I have never known before, so I need to ask someone when I get a trouble with those, but it was good experience to know new system that you’ve never gotten.
In
my second week, I went to the Apple Festival. It is the biggest apple festival
in my town and many people come from another town to see Apple Festival.
You could see many kind of apple product
like juice, apple caramel, apple jam and many more. I bought a caramel apple,
but it was very sticky. I did some interesting activities every weekend. I
sailed in the next week. We used our own boat, When I was at the lake the
weather was too windy. Because I’ve never sailed before so I asked my
hostmom “Are we going to
sink?”, she was laughing
at me. Hahahaha. I could see whole part of the lake superior, and we also went
to the Madeline Island. It was not too far from the lake. I met my hostparents
relative, and we stayed until at night and we came back soon.
On Oct, 15th I went to the South Dakota. The trip took 16
hour to got South Dakota. I visited a mini water fall there, and some amazing
sand hill. The sand hill was very awesome because it looks like a desert in
middle east. I took some cool picture on the top of the hill, it was creepy,
hehe. We also went to the Mount Rushemore. It is one of the monumental symbol
in USA. It has 4 president statue such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Theoodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. I watched a short movie on the theatre
and learned how did us government form.
During my first month, I learn how to communicate with people in my new environment, how to make a good
impression, and many things. Actuallly I am not talk active person, that’s why I was very afraid when I
talk to people. But as the time goes
by, I could handle that by reading many books, it would improving my vocab. I just
realized that it’s not as
easy as I could imagine to start the conversation with the people. The people
here taught me how to manage the time well. Hopefully, I would be better in
language, school, personality. My Goals
while i’m here in the US are to be a good person, improving my English
and knowledge and surely for having amazing experiences.
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