Wednesday, May 14, 2014
fOREiGN EXChANGE StUdENt?
fOREiGN EXChANGE StUdENt?
Any foreign exchange students out there? Have you ever been one? Have you ever had a foreign exchangee student friend? Well, I am an exchange student from the U.S. I am in Brazil and I am having a terrible time. I miss my friends and family. Say something nice to me to help me get through this!!! lol thanks ;] -lillY
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I was an exchange student and I want to reassure you that it is very normal to start to feel this way at this point in your exchange. The newness of it all has started to wear off, your novelty as the exchange student at school and in your host family is waning, and the holidays are approaching, which can make homesickness even worse. If you've already graduated from high school (as I had when I did my exchange), your friends are all coming home from college right now and you're realizing that you're not going to be there for all of that fun. BUT...and this is HUGE....if you can make it through Christmas, you're going to be FINE!!!! This will be the most amazing year of your life. When I went on exchange, I didn't really believe it, but now (and I won't tell you how many years later it is!) I can say that my year abroad had the greatest concentration of incredible experiences of any year in my life. I've gone through college and graduate school, gotten married, and I'm now a mother. All sorts of wonderful, fantastic things have happened in my life since I came home from my exchange, but I doubt that I will ever in all of my life have a year like that one - the travels, the friends, the challenges of language and culture and living with my host families, the maturation and development of personal character. You are doing a brave and daring thing by leaving home and being an exchangee and you will - I PROMISE!!! - treasure your memories of your time in Brazil.
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