Mail from Germany

Last year my school had its very first foreign exchange student. It was a girl from Germany who was in my grade. Her name was Gina. Yesterday in chapel, Mr. Kinlaw (the administrator) revealed that Gina had sent him a letter with the request that it be read in chapel. So it was. She told us how happy she was to have been here last year, how much the teachers here care about us (apparently teachers don't care about their students where she comes from...at least, not as much), how much like a family it was here (with it being such a small school, though, it would be difficult for it not to seem that way.), and how she wishes certain students could come visit her in Germay (my friend Amanda being one of them.) She also wrote a short note to two students in particular. Those students are two new foreign exchange students that we have this year. Johanna is from Switzerland and Elin is fron Denmark. Gina left them a note saying she hoped they enjoy their time here and warning them about our crazy Florida weather. We all though it was great that she's still thinking about us and even the new students, who never met Gina, thought it was sweet of her. She promised to send us more letters.