Meeting my New Family!

Last Thursday, I was able to meet my host family for the semester at the “Meet-A-Family” dinner.  I have been paired with John and Jenny Twycross for the semester and will share them with Shelby Cron, one of the cross country girls.  The school put on a very nice dinner (that is apparently always some sort of chicken according to my parents) with some AWESOME cheesecake for dessert (and I don’t even like cheesecake)!  The dinner allowed us to meet, talk with, and get to know our host families.  We also pulled out our “diaries” (English word for planner) and scheduled the first actual visit with our family.  This Tuesday, Shelby and I went to our host family’s home for dinner.  Our host family lives in a lovely home in Grantham.  They prepared chili for us, which I thought was 203248203482039843 times better than the American version of chili.  It was served over rice with soy sauce and had vegetable chunks such as pepper, zucchini, and mushrooms in it!  After being entirely stuffed with chili and bread, we were then served apple crumble with custard for dessert.  It was one of the best desserts I have ever eaten, or at least it seemed that way after not having ate any good desserts in a while (minus my Belgian waffle in Scotland)!  After dinner, Shelby and I stayed and played a game called "Farkle" that I had given as a gift to my host family.  It was a whole lot of fun, and we are looking forward to going back to their house this Sunday for a mid afternoon barbecue!

Our Family! :)