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An avid rider, Emma has found life in the country quite to her liking. Her host family, Richard and Jeanie McNear, have horses providing Emma with the opportunity to ride daily. “I’ve even been on a fox hunt,” she said.
But, the 16-year-old senior has found the humidity and heat a surprise.
“The air is very clear in Sweden,” she said, adding with surprise in her voice that she had “never seen so many mountains and so much green” before.
The heat and humidity was a surprise for Ulrike too.
Used to the cool temperatures of the Baltic, Ulrike, also an island girl, described her island as, with some hesitation, searching for the exact pronunciation of each word, “very flat with no woods.” She added the Woodville farm she has joined with Jim and Carolyn Manwaring is familiar to her as she lives on a farm in her native country.
Farm animals may be commonplace to Ulrike but snakes, turtles and several other types of animals are not. “I’ve only ever seen a snake in the zoo,” she said, and adding with surprise in her voice that her new family has a boa for a pet.
Snakes are not common housepets but dogs and cats are. Kentaro Otani of Japan has found even these unusual. “I live in an apartment and we don’t have dogs and cats,” the articulate 16-year-old Rappahannock junior said, adding that his host family, Richard and Pat Helmer, have both and horses, another new animal for Ken, a native of Tokyo. Ken was very surprised to travel with his family to North Carolina in a car. “Everyone has a car and you never take the train, here,” he said with some surprise, familiar himself with only train travel.
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