Spain

Hello,
My name is Karen O'Brien. I am participating in a foreign exchange through the organization AFS. The trip that I have applied for is one that leaves for Spain in the fall of 2010 and returns summer of 2011. This would mean that I would be away for the entirety of my junior year of high school. This is something that I am very passionate about and desperately want to do.
I am very familiar with the program and my family has also been involved in AFS for many years. I have previously been a host sister and volunteer. My mom was also a host sister and an exchange student.
Every experience that I have had with AFS has been life changing and I don't think that I'd be the person I am now without it.