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2015-2016

Students’ Sharings

ONCE IN A LIFETIME, FOREVER

4B Alessandra Di Perna
AFS Exchange Student from Italy

my problems as they share with
me their feelings. They brought me
around in Hong Kong and China.
This is my home now, and I feel
comfortable with my family and my
As I landed here, I was very new friends outside home.
disorientated as my life was like
a blank page that I had to rewrite Leaving my host family here is like
from the beginning. When I first met leaving a part of my life, and going
my host family, I started realizing back to my old life makes me both
everything was real. They welcomed excited and anxious, happy and sad,
me as a daughter, and it was the not because I’m a different person
time that I started appreciating my now, but just because I know more
life here. When I first met them, about myself.
I was so nervous and scared that
they wouldn’t understand me or
consider me rude.

Now I see them as a reference
point. We share everything, from
meals, naps, laughter and to sad
moments. Obviously there are ups
and downs, and these makes us
grow up together. Whenever I need
help, they are here for me, and I’m
not afraid of telling them about

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