Host family application

Two weeks after the interview AIFS sends me my contract and asked me to fill out the host family application at the website of AYA (Academic Year in America).

In my opinion that is one of the most difficult and important parts during the whole preparation. This is the application which your future host family will read when they choose an exchange student. AIFS gave me a guidance for filling out the application. And again like at the first application take your time and fill it out calmly.

The whole application is in English. At the first I had to fill out a personal description of myself and needed to give some information about my family. In the second step I answered some questions like:

• Describe your hometown?
• What are your hobbies?
• How do you deal with group pressure?

After I answered all the questions I had to write a letter to my future host family. My parents too.

There are two things, that you can´t fill out by yourself. Your doctor needs to fill out something to confirm that you aren´t sick and your English teacher needs to fill out a reference about you and your behavior during the English lessons at school. It´s possible that you need some immunizations only for the US.

There are some forms from AYA you need sign for the exchange (e.g. the AYA student codex). After you send the application to AYA they start to search for a host family. Don´t be sad if it takes a lot of time until you get your family, the most students get them in May or June

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