I really would love if my family will be the best of the month because THEY ARE!!

Why do I think that my family is not just the best family of the month or the year but why my family is the best host family in the whole wide world.

Love is being welcomed with a warm hug into a new family on the other side of the world. Love is getting coffee from the world's best host daddy every morning. Love is talking to your host mum like a best friend. Love is feeling a part of a new family in the first days. Love is getting a fresh pressed juice when you're sick. Love is getting a hug and a kiss from the cutest children in this world. Love is caring not just for kids; love is to caring for your 'new' siblings. Love is joking around with your host parents and laughing with all your heart with them. Love is a family who cares for you like you were their own child.

Home is wherever you feel home - even it's the other side of the world. Home is where you can wear jogging pants and a messy bun every day and its fine for everyone. Home is where you feel welcome every day, every hour, every minute, and every second. Home is where you can put your feet on the coffee table while watching TV. Home is a place where you want to be rather than anywhere else. Home isn't a place, it's a feeling. Home is where your heart is. Home is, where your family is.

Family is where that love exists. Family is where that home exists. Family is what I found in my host family here in New Zealand. Yes, I am the happiest girl in the world. Happy seven months now. Seven months which have changed my life and my personality for good. Seven months of feeling a part in the world's best host family. Seven months which couldn't be spent with a more amazing family. THANK YOU FOR THE VERY BEST TIME OF MY LIFE. I love you!!!!!!!! 

Saskia Ziegelhöfer