After a very eventful day with my class I slept in the morning of the 8^th, I got up I cleaned my room and then I spent the day with my host family. that night at 9 PM we all got into a van and made our way to the airport to fetch the new exchange student in our family Cienna Wall. Cienna is from Portland Oregon in the US and I will be spending the last two months of my exchange with this crazy little girl. We got to the airport at 10:45 and went to get something to eat because in typical Thai style we were hungry. We ended up just getting bubble tea and then going down to get Cienna. Walking into the arrival area of the airport was like walking into a Rotary meeting. Rotarians everywhere, taking pictures, talking and laughing all waiting to welcome yet another exchange into their lives, to have somebody in their houses, around their family and their children and they all looked super excited! I wondered if I would ever be standing in the airport waiting to welcome an exchange student into my house.  Finding Cienna was super easy. We saw this little tiny girl walking next to this really tall guy and then she saw us too and smiled her big smile and that was it. We lifted up the banner with her name and her picture on it and she came over to us and her Thailand picture experience started with her first few pictures with us in the airport. Seeing her being all confused and disorientated and not understanding the people around her and not knowing what to do I just could not help but think about when I first arrived in Thailand, how scared I was, how confused I was, how badly I just wanted everything to be understandable and okay and I just wanted to help her and make sure she was okay. We asked if she wanted to eat (because this is Thailand) and then we went home. It’s weird when you were always the new one and now all of a sudden somebody else is the new one. All of a sudden it seems like people expect you to know everything, and be okay with everything and teach the next exchange student everything. Don’t get me wrong I don’t mind being the older sister but  I am also still learning, I am also still an exchange student, I am also new at this even if I have been here for a few months. Yes I want to help her yes I want to teach her everything I know and try to be the best big sister I can, I just want to still be learning as well and that is proving to be hard. Cienna is a mixture of caffeine and fire crackers crammed into a little body and covered in sweetness. She is so so nice and she seems to forever be smiling, sure she is A LOT to handle sometimes and sometimes I want to push her out of the car but at the end of the day she is just an amazing little girl and you can never really be sad if you are around her she is just so busy and so full of energy that she rubs off on you after a while! We got home on the morning of the 9^th at 2 AM and went to bed. At 11 AM we went to Cienna’s first Rotary meeting and once again I thought about my first Rotary meeting, getting flowers and smiles and pats on the back but I also remember being so intimidated by all the ladies looking at me like “mmmmm what will she be like? Will we like her? Will she try? Will she be worth our effort?” it feels like the weight of the world is on your shoulders and nobody has even told you what they expect from you, it’s scary. Yet here I am, and I have been here for 9 months and I am thinking they don’t hate me? Nobody told me how hard exchange would be or just how much I would really get from it.