Hi, I`m Sven, I´m sixteen years old and I come from the west of Germany. I live in a flat in downtown, together with my father and my stepmum. I spend most of my free time either outside in our quarter, where I just chill in one of the parcs there or I go to pitches, where I play football and can have some fun with my friends, or at home with my family, where I talk to them and enjoy the familiar atmosphere.
In my everyday life I usually go to school where I stay until around 2 p.m. After that I´m going out with friends, I´m learning for school or I´m doing sports at home, where I have something like a little home gym. In the evening I have around three times a week my Jiu Jitsu training. After that I usually cook and eat with my family and then I go to bed at around 10 p.m. We often cook German dishes as for example breaded schnitzel, which I like the most, Sauerbraten and stew, but also other dishes like fish or vegetarian food. Generally, I like nearly everything to eat so that won´t be a problem. In my weekends I often do sports or hang out with friends. In addition, I´m a supporter of our local football club and I sometimes also watch soccer games in the stadium.
When I don´t have school, I have holidays, which I have four times in a year. During my holidays I travel a lot. For example I visit my mom and my half-sister, who live in the north of Germany, or I visit other members of my family as e.g. my cousins, who are living in the south of Germany. Once a year, usually on Christmas or on Easter, there is the tradition that my father’s whole family (around 20 people) meets in the house of my grandparents, where we celebrate together. Additionally, I sometimes travel with my friends. For example, I have been two weeks in Croatia last summer and the summer before I´ve been for two weeks in Italy. Now it maybe sounds like I´m all the time travelling during my holidays, but I’m not. I also really enjoy to stay a lot of time at home where I can calm down. Then I just chill, watch series and films, play video games or I spend some time with my family and talk with them.
Apart from that, I´m interested a lot in politics, history and other cultures. That’s why I decided to stay a few months in another country. After having thought a lot about the country where I wanted to go and after plenty of discussion with my family, I was sure that the country I’m interested in the most are the US because it’s with its economy and its space one of the countries with the most influence on the world. I am really excited about living sometime in the US, and I hope that I´ll learn more about the life, people and culture there. Moreover, I hope that I´ll improve myself. I´m sure that I´m going to enjoy my time during my stay in the US. On the one hand, I really liked the two student exchanges I made so far (one week in Paris and one week in the north of Denmark), where I really liked to experience the culture and the people in their everyday life there, and I´m very excited to get even more and completely new experiences during my stay in the US. On the other hand, I don´t have high entitlements, I´m a flexible person and I’m in a good mood nearly all the time.
