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 wasn 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 東道主
hug 擁抱
shock 震驚
respond 回應
challenge 挑戰
straight 直接地
squeeze 擠壓
firmly 緊緊地
informality 隨意

在美國家庭寄宿
我叫珍妮，我在美國家庭寄宿。當我第一次見到我要寄宿那家的母親瑪麗時，她熱情地擁抱了我。我確實感到非常震驚因為我從來沒有被擁抱過，我不知道該如何回應。然而到我要離開美國時，我已經非常喜歡擁抱別人和被別人擁抱了。
握手也是個挑戰。我寄宿那家的父親彼特，直視著我的眼睛，緊緊地握我的手。
瑪麗和彼特都希望我對他們直呼其名，因為美國人一般比較隨意。通過直呼其名，我們互相之間感到更加親切友好