{"id":10525,"date":"2024-02-14T15:08:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preprod.sts-education.com\/isantaperheeksi\/family-stories\/isantaperhe-tarinat\/the-metzger-family\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:45:40","slug":"the-metzger-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sts-education.com\/fi\/isantaperheeksi\/family-stories\/isantaperhe-tarinat\/the-metzger-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metzger Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sts-text sts-text-editor has-max-width-md\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content-inner\">\n<h1>&quot;Mirja has become a real sister&quot;<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-sts-text sts-text-editor has-max-width-md\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content-inner\">\n<p><em>The Metzger family hosted Mirja from Montenegro<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-sts-image sts-block-image sts-block-image--count-1 has-max-width-md\" data-count=\"1\"><div class=\"sts-block-image__grid\"><div class=\"sts-block-image__item\"><picture class=\"sts-responsive-image has-fit-cover has-pos-top is-skeleton\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sts-education.com\/12916_hero_md.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Mirja has become a real sister&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"low\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\"\/><\/picture><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-sts-text sts-text-editor has-max-width-md\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content-inner\">\n<p>We came up with the idea of becoming a host family through friends. We have the space, we are curious about other people and enjoy learning more about other countries. It was an adjustment at first. You&#x27;re no longer on your own and you have a new person in your family who you have to get to know and who has their own routines. But we settled in quickly. After two or three months, Mirja flipped a linguistic switch and then almost everything was in German.<\/p>\n<p>We learned a lot of exciting things about Montenegro, because Mirja had a lot to tell about her country. Mirja also shared very personal things and that was just a great experience. Mirja is a very communicative, empathetic and likeable person. She dared to tell us when she didn&#x27;t like something, and we were allowed to do the same with her. That was very important to us, because it&#x27;s normal to have different opinions when you live together for a whole year. We were very lucky that Mirja also likes to play board games like us and we had so many fun situations during the Activity pantomime.<\/p>\n<p>We went skiing together and to the Christmas market, but it&#x27;s the little moments that make the experience of hosting so special. That feeling that Mirja is an additional family member, that we enjoy her company and we&#x27;re happy when she comes home. Mirja has become like a sister to our daughter Leonie. They talked about everything, went shopping together, went to restaurants and lay in bed in the evening with stomach aches because they laughed so hard.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-sts-image sts-block-image sts-block-image--count-1 has-max-width-md\" data-count=\"1\"><div class=\"sts-block-image__grid\"><div class=\"sts-block-image__item\"><picture class=\"sts-responsive-image has-fit-cover has-pos-top is-skeleton\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sts-education.com\/12917_hero_md.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Mirja has become a real sister&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"low\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\"\/><\/picture><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-sts-text sts-text-editor has-max-width-md\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content\"><div class=\"sts-text-editor__content-inner\">\n<p>Our friends also got on well with Mirja. They saw how wonderful and enriching it is to be a host family. This has made some of them curious about cultural exchange. Hopefully we have inspired a few people to host students. We can definitely imagine repeating this experience!<\/p>\n<p>But first we would like to visit Mirja and get to know Montenegro.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":10475,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sts_page_background_color":"","footnotes":""},"wpw_page_folders":[528],"class_list":["post-10525","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Metzger family<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sts-education.com\/fi\/isantaperheeksi\/family-stories\/isantaperhe-tarinat\/the-metzger-family\/\" 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