About Me: Paraguay, Here I Come!
My name is Amanda Thomas and in August, I will be leaving Colorado to study abroad with AFS in Paraguay for a year (10 months). I will be spending my Junior year of high school in Paraguay, where I will live with a host family, will attend high school, and will learn about the amazing culture there while sharing my own. I have wanted to travel abroad since I was 5 or 6 years old. My mom came to the United States as an AFS exchange student from Chile when she was in high school. Since then, my family has been involved with AFS and it has always been my dream to study abroad as well. Even outside of traveling as an exchange student, I have always wanted to travel the world and experience as much as I can. We live in this huge, complex, unique, and beautiful world; and I want to see as much of it as I can. From this experience, I hope to gain memories that I will treasure for the rest of my life and become more open-minded about different pe...