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I want to do a foreign exchange program and my twin brother does too. We both want to do the program in Japan. Is it possible for both of us go at same time and live together while doing the program?
I still trying to find a program that has Japan and doesn't need language required and not so expensive, any recommedations?
I don´t know about any program in Japan that may allow for you to stay in same host family home as your twin brother. Japan is known for the limited space in their homes, but who knows...
There is this program that does definitely allow for you to be hosted by same host family home, but it is not in Japan, sorry. You may want to consider it as it is the highest quality for a much lower cost for comparable programs. Cost for your brother and you, both, might be less than USD8,000
This program does not require for you to have studied Spanish prior to participating.
Spain is a wonderful choice and the program www.beautifulspain.com, one of the best if not the best of the programs offered abroad world wide. Location is a safe and most amazingly beautiful beach resort in Northern Spain.
Host families are extremely well screened and very loving. This program gets returnees year after year, so great it is.
Cost is really reasonable considering everything included (as long as you sign up with this program through their web site as there are organizations that sell the same program for much more so high quality it is).
Some of the activities and excursions it offers besides Spanish, cooking and dancing classes are: Guggenheim Museum, paella dinner, bullfight, fireworks on the beach, city tour, medieval towns, fishing villages, many beach days, Aquarium, tall ship vessel excursion, Roman village hiking trip, canoening down the river, shopping, and much more.
It offers you the possibility of enrolling with a friend with whom to share same host family home, or for you to stay alone at host family. Many host families count on children of similar age to participating students.
thanks for being so patience everyone ! here is a little FAQ about comments i get about japan ! i'll probably make another one of these so ...
What is a good Foreign Exchange student program? I want to go Japan as a foreign Exchange student. Is there a good program that doesn't need language requirement and is not really expensive?
I going to study Japanese in the summer and maybe over the fall break and go in the Spring but don't want a requirement for a year or two.
Any information will be helpful!
I mean over the fall, not fall break.
Is it possible to bring my brother along and live in the same host family? We pay for him, he's my twin.
I am with EF Foundation. We have an outbound program that includes Japan Here's a link to our site: http://www.ef.com/master/hsy/
If you have any questions feel free to email me : kristyef@live.com
I am a Freshman in Highschool, and I want the go with a Foreign Exchange Student Program to Spain or a spanish speaking country. I have taken 3 years of Spanish. I also volunteer at a hospital 4 hours a week (which they might like.) I have good grades also.
The problem, is that I don't know how to start or how I will come up with that money. Anything will help me even if it's not in a Spanish country. Thanks!
Check out Youth For Understanding.
Not only do they have an excellent program (I went to Japan in 2005), they have more scholarships than just about any other organization!
Just go to their website, fill out the application, and you'll hear back from them in not too long.
Your grades and language ablitity will help you out TREMENDOUSLY.
And.. don't be scared by people who tell you that "exchange programs are dangerous". The statistics say it is very unlikely, and I know hundreds of former students who had no problems at all.
YFU will even move you if something happens. Heck, I got moved because the mother got sick!
I'm currently deciding between UP and Ateneo, and one of the major factors is the foreign exchange program. I know Ateneo definitely has one (Junior Term Abroad), but I don't know about UP. I'm going to UP Manila, but planning on shifting to UP Diliman after a year. So yeah.. are there any opportunities to study abroad in UP Manila or Diliman?
the university of the philippines has research partnerships and student/faculty exchange programs with cornell university, yale university, purdue university and michigan state university, among others. i believe, however, that it's only for students taking their masters or PhDs.
but they do accept international students at all levels.
I just got off of vacation to the gran canyon and we met a swedish family on the white water rafting trip we took, and it brought me to the thought of foreign exchange student programs.
my parents also like the idea.
Australia, france, africa, or sweden are some of the countries that catch my interest.
how do i get involved with a program and the school situation settled?
what would the costs be?
any help is greatly appreciated.
If you haven't gotten into a school yet, search for school that are known for these types of things. If you are in a school, ask a guidance councellor about it. Also most colleges have trips to certain countries for studies.
Report calls for more oversight of student exchange programs
The report calls for stronger monitoring of youth placement groups that receive federal grants to sponsor exchange students. It finds that the department has been "relying instead on the coordinator to self-monitor." Participants in the exchange programs are typically 15 to 18 and are among "the most vulnerable," according to the report.
In 2008, the State Department gave 17 such groups $39.4 million in taxpayer funds to manage programs involving exchange students.
One of those groups, Aspect Foundation, received $1.08 million of those funds. However, Aspect came under fire this year after students from Europe, Africa and South America -- whom the California-based foundation had placed in Scranton, Pennsylvania -- came forward with allegations of mistreatment and abandonment.
CNN aired a detailed report on the case in July, after which the State Department said it would set up a toll-free telephone number that foreign exchange students could use to report problems and tighten its oversight of government-funded exchange student programs.
Foreign exchange students get taste of American life
Published: October 20, 2009
HICKORY - In ell to wisdom about marketing, math and English, a few students at Hickory Exuberant are getting lessons on American subsistence this year.
Elena Beltza, Vorapat Vorapanya, David Herraiz and Adam Stepanek are all exchange students in Hickory as part of AFS Intercultural Programs. The program is an ecumenical, nonprofit plan designed to lend intercultural knowledge opportunities to students.
The students came to the In agreement States in the centre of August and will run off at the end of June.
Vorapanya is from Thailand, Stepanek is from the Czech Republic and Beltza and Herraiz are from Spain.
"I wanted to go to the States since I was 9," said Stepanek. "My author promised we could go for a month for red-letter day, but we were never competent to. I decisive to thrive on my own through AFS."
Beltza said she had talked with a crony in California who convinced her it would be fun to try the AFS program.
"I was bored with the metropolis and doing the same factor," she said. "In Spain, we believe the U.S. is so overconfident."
Herraiz said he wanted to assign Spain. He also had a woman who came to the U.S. and had a valid wisdom.
Vorapanya had several reasons to crumble.
"To be an exchange student is a big allot," she said. "I wanted to repair my English prominence. This will also expropriate me greater up."
Vorapanya is 16, the youngest of the four students. The other three are 17 and should technically be seniors.
"I would like to be a superior and graduate from this clique, but it's not imaginable," Stepanek said.
In harmony to graduate from a elated instil in North Carolina, students must have four years of merry nursery school English.
Although they were all placed in the inferior group, the three 17-year-olds are winsome some higher- ranking-standing classes so they will be on the same be open as their classmates in their relaxed countries.
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Better Scrutiny Is Urged for Exchange ProgramNew York Times - Oct 25, 2009
(AP) — The State Department's internal watchdog concludes in a new report that the nation's student foreign exchange programs need better federal oversight, and more »The Associated Press - Oct 23, 2009
The nation's foreign exchange student programs need better federal oversight, the State Department's internal watchdog concludes in a new report following a and more »CNN - Oct 23, 2009
telephone number that foreign exchange students could use to report problems and tighten its oversight of government-funded exchange student programs.Kansas City Star - Oct 24, 2009
Most foreign exchange students attending high school thousands of miles from home experience newcomer jitters while adjusting to their host family's countryLivingston Daily - Oct 25, 2009
"It's widely known that AFS has a high school exchange student program, but this is a special program; it's the first time we've done this," Ruhman said. and more »