Hostfamily-letter

Lina · Gast

Hallo,
Ich möchte mich bald für ein Highschooljahr in den USA bewerben und muss dazu einen Brief an die zukünftige Hostfamily schreiben.
Mir fehlen aber einige Wörter bzw. Ausdrücke und ich befürchte es wimmelt nur so von Fehlern darin.
Es wäre sehr nett, wenn sich jemand meinen Brief durchlesen und korrigieren oder bessere Formulierungen finden würde.
Viele Grüße
Lina

Dear Hostfamily,
My name is *** and i am 15 years old.
My birthday is on **.12.1989.
I live in a small town which is called W*** and i live here for all my life.
W*** has about 35000 inhabitants and i really like living here.
My hometown is in the west of Germany and some big citys like Dortmund and Cologne are close.
When i was three years old i started kindergarten and i liked it very much.
I found a lot of friends there which i know now for about 12 years.
Three years later i had my first schoolday.
I was very excited about that but at the same time i was very sad because lots of my friends from kindergarten went to another school.
But i felt good very fast in this class.
When i was 10 years old i (wechselte zum Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium welches ich heute noch besuche).
Now i am in grade 9 and my favourite subjects are English,German and Chemistry.
My class is ok but we all have friends outside the school so we do not meet after schooltime.
My teachers say about my class, that we are a very funny class because we always make jokes during the lessons but some teachers do not like this behaviour.
The way to school which i have to walk every morning and every midday is not very long.
I think about 5 to 10 Minutes by feet.
Although it would not be too boring i walk this way together with my best friend Mandy.
My other best friends Tabea,Stina and Gina are in my class too so i can see them every day which i enjoy very much.
I spend a lot of my freetime with them.
Then we go shopping in Dortmund or sit in a Café (heißt das auf englisch auch so?) and talk.
But sometimes when school is very stressful and we do not have so much time in the afternoons we meet just for a few hours to talk and have fun.
On the weekends my friends and i love going to partys.
We meet a lot of friends and i get to know a lot of new people there.
Unfortunately there are not so many partys here.
I like doing sports and when i was younger i tried almost every sport you can do here in my town.
I was in a lot of (Vereinen??) but i never been there too long because i got bored very fast and i wanted to try another sport.
Now i like playing tennis, volleyball and badminton.
I do not play these ones regular but i try as often as i can.
My family consits of my father, my mother and my older Brother.
My father is 48 years old and works for a big car combine (hab ich im wörterbuch nachgeguckt kann man das nehmen?)
My mother is 46 years old and (sie ist kaufm. Angestellte...wie nennt man das?)
My brother is 18 years old and he will finish school next year.
His big hobbys is playing soccer and when i was younger me and my parents often joined his games at the weekends.
For this letter i asked my friends to tell me what they think about my personality.
They told me i would be open minded, helpfull, funny and not complicated but i would also be very direct and sometimes a little bit (stur).

Now i want to tell you the reasons why i want to leave my friends, my family and (meine Gewohnheiten)for one year .
I’ve always been interested in different countries and i have been to Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, Turkey and to the Netherlands.
And now it is my dream to spend a year in the United States of America.
I love the English language and i just want to experience something completly new and of course i want to make a lot of new friends and hopefully a second family.
I want to get to know “The american way of life” and the “team and school spirit” of american Highschools.
I want to see, if i can trust myself and live another life in this interesting country called USA.
If you are interested in life in germany i can tell you a lot about it.
I hope to hear from you soon and i am excited and very looking forward for my exchange year.

Gast

Teil 1 vom Text:

Dear Hostfamily,
My name is *** and I am 15 years old.
My birthday is on **.12.1989.
I live in a small town which is called W***, I have been living here all my life and I still enjoy it.
The population of W*** is about 35000, it lies in the west part of Germany surrounded by large cities like Dortmund and Cologne.
I started kindergarten at the age of three and had great moments that time around mainly because I’ve found a lot of friends.
After three years of kindergarten, I started grade school, leaving friends behind who went to another school. I soon settled in and started to feel comfortable in class.
Since four years, I’ve been attending classes at Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium. Currently I’m in the 9th grade. My favorite subjects include English, German and Chemistry. I enjoy classes but I have quite a lot of friends attending another school so we don’t meet before school ends. My class has the reputation of telling jokes what sometimes distracts class and the teacher.
Every day I walk to school with one of my friends, which only takes about 5-10 minutes. My other friends are in the same class as I am, I enjoy seeing them every day. Additionally, I spend a lot of my leisure time with them. We usually go shopping in Dortmund or relax at a café. At stressful school days when we have no time hang out, we still find time to chill and talk for hours. At weekends, I usually attend parties where I meet my friends and get to know new people. I enjoy doing sports and tried out all the available kinds. I played in teams but got bored soon enough. At the moment, I stick to tennis, volleyball and badminton. I seldom have time to play but I do it as often as I can.

<<the rest to follow soon... or can someone else manage it??

Noch ein Tipp: Try using American English because people in the USA sometimes hate British...

Ich habe Deinen Text komplett überarbeitet... Hoffe es ist ok...

Gast

Cool viiielen Dank..
Das hört sich ja alles schonmal viel besser an smile

Wäre seehr nett, wenn mir jemand den anderen teil auch noch bearbeiten könnte damit ich das einigermaßen einheitlich hab smile

*freuu*

Gast

Halli Hallo!

Hier ist das Zweite Teil:

My family consists of my father, my mother and my older brother. My father is 48 years old and works for a big automobile company.
My mother is 46 years old and works in an office. My brother is 18 years old and will finish school next year. His big hobby is playing soccer. When I was younger, my parents and I often watched his games on the weekends.

For this letter, I asked my friends to tell me what they think about my personality. They told me that I am open-minded, helpful, funny and not complicated, but also that I can be very direct and sometimes a little bit stubborn.

Now I want to tell you the reasons why I want to leave my friends, my family and my usual life for one year. I’ve always been interested in different countries and I have been to Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, Turkey and to the Netherlands. Now it is my dream to spend a year in the United States of America. I love the English language and I want to experience something completly new. And, of course, I want to make a lot of new friends and hopefully find a second family. I want to get to know “The American way of life” and the “team and school spirit” of American highschools. I want to see if I have the courage to live another life in this interesting country called the USA.

If you are interested in life in Germany I can tell you a lot about it.
I hope to hear from you soon. I am very excited and looking forward to my exchange year.

Viel Glück mit deine Bewerbung! Ich Stamme aus den USA, und ich wuenche dir viel erfolg in meiner Heimat!

Gruss!

Lina · Gast

Dankeschöön smile

Möchte zu dem Brief jetzt noch einiges hinzufügen und es wäre nett, wenn das nochmal jemand korrigieren könnte (kommt ja sicherlich nicht so gut bei der hostfamily an, wenn soo viele fehler drin wären)

Also ich möchte sagen:Aber meistens schätzen das meine Freunde sehr an mir
Geht da vllt. 'but most times my friend like that about(?) me'...??

und dann wär es noch nett, wenn mir jemand diesen text übersetzen könnte:
Für die Zukunft wünsche ich mir erstmal, dass mein Austauschjahr eine großartige Erfahrung für mich und Sie (die hostfam.) wird.Später möchte ich auf jeden fall einen Job haben, wo man etwas mit Leuten und Sprachen zu tun hat und ich könnte mir auch vorstellen im Ausland zu arbeiten.

das krieg ich irgendwie gar nicht hin grübelnd