Being a foreign exchange student is the best decision I have ever made. This year has been so great, I look back at all the memories with a big smile on my face. I want to thank everyone that have made my year so amazing. I want to thank my host family for always being there for me and doing everything they can to make me happy. My friends for taking me into their lives and treat me like I’ve known them their whole life, picking me up and take me with them on stuff. I can’t really thank anyone enough for everything they have done for me, I am so grateful. Leaving is going to be so hard and to be honest I really don’t want to. But it’s a part of being a foreign exchange and luckily I can always come back. I have experienced so much, made friends for life and a family that I look at as my own, I feel so lucky. If I chose to not go, I am now sure that it would have been the biggest mistake of my life.”

— Hanna from Norway