Unforgettable Exchange Year

Hi everyone, It's me Rameesha Ishtiaq from Karachi, Pakistan.One of the Culture Ambassador from KL-YES from batch-10. I'm living in USA for one academic year. The experience in US is really small to explain  in a blog because it's so much to tell, but still I love to share with all those people who have some kind of bad issues and concern about all that.

I have one awesome family, two little cute sisters, loving mom and caring dad. I had 3 months with them, my school is wonderful, the high school teachers are really nice to me they help me a lot in every step where I really need someone, because as an exchange student you have to take a US History subject and I hadn't any idea about that but that work pretty good. My host family is actually playing big role in my exchange year to support me, to trust me, to believe me, to appreciate me and always feel proud to be their daughter.

Well last month we went Missouri for the wedding, I never had American marriage ceremony before that was a pretty good experience about all of that. Well now a days I have a fall break, and just had a first camping experience, truly that was pretty good time I never had before. We been to Wisconsin for that and spend 6 days there, so there were some elders people to, I mean none of them in my age, I was already so scared because of the darkness of the jungle, never been like that the, but second and third day I felt more comfortable with them because even no one know me, still people love to talk to me asked questions about me, about my culture and country. Off course I am a Muslim girl and sitting with them, they have lots of the question about me, thing is every single person has some kind of misconception about someone, same as our country people have the bad image about US and same as US people have a bad image about us like Muslims.

Everything going were great but on 4th day, I saw some of the people are making something like thread, woods, tubacco all staff, and than they asked me that are you coming Sweatlodge, so I was confuse because I don't know what sweatlodge ctually is? Then my mom told me it's a kind of American prayer they called their GOD grand father, in tent they put big stone in to the fire for heat when they warm enough they put in the tent and close it totally and perform there prayer, sing song and other staff...

So they have some special kind of dressess to wear and ther thing, I did only for experience and after that I realize that how amazing that was, first experience about American culture was super cool. Learning about other people is never be bad thing to do. Thanks a lot to being with me and thanks my family to support me, to trust me, and for all those staff what you all ever done for me.