5 Homestay in the US
My name is Jenny and I did a homestay in America. When I first met my host mother, Mary, she gave me a big hug. I was really shocked because I had never been hugged before, and I was sure how to respond. By the time I left America, though, I came to enjoy hugging and being hugged. Shaking hands was also a challenge. My homestay father, Peter, looked at me straight in the eye and squeezed my hand firmly.
Both Mary and Peter wanted me to call them by their first names because they, as Americans, like informality. By using first names only, we felt friendlier towards each other.
homestay 家庭寄宿
host 东道主
hug 拥抱
shock 震撼
respond 回话
challenge 挑战
straight 直接地
squeeze 挤压
firmly 紧紧地
informality 随便
在美国家庭寄宿
我叫珍妮，我在美国家庭寄宿。当我首次见到我要寄宿那家的妈妈玛丽时，她热情地拥抱了我。我确实感到很震撼由于我从来没被拥抱过，我不了解该怎么样回话。然而到我要离开美国时，我已经很喜欢拥抱其他人和被其他人拥抱了。
握手也是个挑战。我寄宿那家的爸爸彼特，直视着我的双眼，紧紧地握我的手。
玛丽和彼特都期望我对他们直呼其名，由于美国人一般比较随便。通过直呼其名，大家互相之间感到愈加亲切友好
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