Posted by Charlie Oltman on Oct 01, 2024
Hi, my name is Leonard Scheiber, I am 17 years old and from Austria. This year I got the opportunity to spend a year in the wonderful state of Minnesota. Because I was always interested in Geography I knew where I will stay when I heard I will go to Minnesota. But at that point I didn't know anything about it. When I got here on August 15th my first two host families picked me up from the Airport.

My first family is very interested in showing my the State. We went to different State Parks and also to the State Fair. My family is very friendly and really helped me to fit in the community. I taught my host dad a Austrian Card game and we now play that every day for five weeks.

I joined the schools Cross Country Team and all of those boys are very nice and helpful. I really like the group because it feels everyone wants the other one to succeed and to get better.

I am really looking forward to experience the winter. Back home we don't get a lot of snow and it rarely get below 0 Degrees Fahrenheit.
 
 

Inbound students at the State Fair

On the way to a Crow-County meet