X-Change Student Kilian Pach

Student News ..... 2008 / 2009

Artikel in Aspen Times Zeitung über Kilian Pach - geschrieben von seinem Gastbruder Matthew Goldstein

My whole life my parents have always had guests staying in our house, be they exchange students or just friends coming to visit. When I was little I did not realy like all of the strange people that were oming to stay, for long or short periods, at my house. In faxt, itgot old. I got t the point where i just resented every guest who would come to the house and to whom I would have to suck up.  At one point I actually went so far as to tell my paretns they were notalloed to take in any exchage student until I had left for college. The new rule almost lasted for my whole high school career, until this soccer when I met te little German (Kilian). I saw this little boy before prractise and assumed he was twelve years old, hanging around the football field on a nice summer day. When I saw him putting on his soccer gear, I could not believe that he could really be in highschool, but he was.  I got to know the little guy and learned that he was looking to find a stundents house t o move into, and so I thought why not my house? He seemed to be genuine, amusing, chill, little character, but would  really want to deal wit him all the time? I decided to go for it. I mean he couldnt be that bad of a kid and plus, I would hope that someone would do the same for me if I was in his place. 
So it went; I asked my mom and she went for the idea right away. SoonI had my new little brother, but I wondered, would he be an annoying little brother like the ones in the movies, or the cool littleguy I had envisioned?
The weeks went by and our new sibling relationship was put to test. Living n the same house with someone you dont know is a lot stranger than  many would assume, but the little guy hung in there, and managed to fit in quite well with my familys slightly odd hbits and attributes. In fact he seemed to pass each test that arose with flying colours. He has now been in my house for a half a year and everything is as i imagined. I have th cool little brother that I never had, as well as a buddy to hang out with at all times of the day. So now when you come to my house late at night you can see me and my little brother wrestling as any good sibling should with me in the rerd corner and Kilian Pach. the Little German, standing at five feet four inches, wighting in at 110 pounds. With smiles on our faces we shake the house with the ruckus we create and I have yet to doubt my decision of letting the little German into my life.X-Change Student Kilian Pach