Mika Tanaka, a college student from Japan, had a wonderful homestay in London. She lived with a British family and studied
English for a month.
"What do you want for your 19th birthday?" my parents asked me. "A ring," I replied. However, instead of a ring, my parents
gave me a one-month homestay in London.
On February 11, I left Japan. On the plane, I worried about being all alone there ― a stranger to London. But when I met the
Flannery family (my host family), their warm welcome made me feel at ease. Both my host father and mother were very kind and
treated me like their own daughter.