hey ich sollte einen brief an die potentielle Gastfamilie schrieben. Wär schön wenn den mal jmd. Korrektur lesen könnte. Danke schonmal im vorraus 
Dear host family,
First of all I want to thank you for taking your time and reading my letter. I also say thank you that you will put up an exchange student and offer her or him an interesting and exciting year abroad. I would be glad if you want to accept me as a new family member. In the following lines I’m going to tell you something about me.
I’m looking forward to stay abroad, but I’m a bit nervous, because I do not know if I’ll become homesick and may miss my old friends too much. But I think that I will get many new impressions and make many new experiences so that I’ll come home to Germany grown up and maybe I will have found a twice home.
My name is Sabine Frederike. Today I’m 15 years old and I am 5.10 feet (177 cm) tall. I live together with my younger brother and my parents in an apartment in Solingen, a city closed to Cologne in the west of Germany. I attend secondary-school to get my general qualification for university entrance. At the moment I attend grade ten.
My usual daily routine begins at seven o’clock. At that time my mother awakes me what can be difficult sometimes, because I can be a bit grumpy in the morning. Thereafter I get ready for school, which is two minutes away from my house. Mostly I have got six lessons each lasting 45 minutes. At half past one I take warm lunch with my brother and my mother. Afterwards I have free-time. I meet friends, we go shopping, I play on the Computer or in the internet, I read and I do my homework. Two times a week I go dancing in a non-profit show dance association. Sometimes I go out with my friends at the weekend. In the evening my father returns from work and we have a common dinner. After that we mostly watch a movie on TV together. At approximately eleven o’clock I go to bed.
I am on friendly terms with my younger brother. We tell each other everything but sometimes we also have quarrel about minor matters but I think this is quite normal between brothers and sisters.
My father is seldom at home because he has to work much but we are in rapport. My mother and I often disagree specially in things which belong to my education. I usually ask my parents for advice with difficult homework or in terms of formalities. In many other matters I consult my friends.
My best friend is called Ann. She is always present when I need her and I have got a lot of fun with her.
I have got many female and male friends and we often meet in school, at dancing or in the city.
My friends appreciate that I am a good listener, that I try to help them to solve their problems and that I am helpful and nuts in a positive, humorous way. I am some kind of agony aunt for them and I am into being that. I have got humor and I am pigheaded. My friends do not like that I am tardy.
I find it important that my friends are genuine, humorous and blithe.
Sometimes I do embarrassing things accidentally, like going to school without a satchel or sitting under a hair drier and speaking so loudly to a friend next to me that all the people in the hairdresser’s shop are listening to what we are saying. But I can laugh about things like that.
My hobbies are dancing, cooking, reading, meeting friends and playing Computer, surfing in the internet and calling friends.
I am creative, humorous, imaginative, pensive and pigheaded. I am tardy and a bit untidy, but I try to work on this.
I cogitate much and I build my own opinion. I am ready to compromise and I do not try to imitate other people. I find fairness and right judgement very important. Between strangers I am quiet, calm and reticent but between friends I am in high spirits and loquacious.
As a volunteer activity I am the godfather for the pupils of a grade five at my school and I am very committed in other school activities as well. For example my class an I collect money by selling cake and drinks to finance a few days in a skiing lodge. To supplement my pocket money I do baby sitting.
My favourite lessons are maths, physics, chemistry and art. I don’t like history and German so much.
After having finished the school I would like to study design in order to become a fashion designer. I’m also interested in natural science a lot and I can imagine to work as a forensic medic.
Things that frustrate me are for example if my parents patronize me too much or when I talk at cross-purposes with someone else. I get upset if someone else is a blockhead or if something does not work out like I want.
I like animals, especially small animals. My brother and I had several small animals and we were fully responsible for them.
If you have a dog I would be encouraged if he is not a vicious dog.
It would be great if you do not live in a too lonesome area. Having my own room would be great, but this may not be a must. Having a guest-brother or sister in my age would also be great, if he or she fully supports putting up an exchange student.
I hope that we match up well and that we get along with each other.
I’m looking forward to get to know you,
Yours sincerely
