Student Exchange Australia
Imagine living overseas for anything from one to twelve months. You’ll be placed with a host family and attend a local school. You’ll live like a local and become immersed in the culture. You’ll learn the language and gain valuable international experience. You’ll learn a lot about yourself.
Experience is Everything!
We are looking for bright, open minded, flexible young people who are willing to move outside their comfort zones and who want to learn about the world and themselves.
The experience of going on exchange can bring enormous rewards:
- Learn about the world first hand
- Open career doors you didn’t know existed
- Get to know how others live and come to see the world from another perspective
- Learn another language
- Test yourself and acquire independence and maturity
- Make new friends and appreciate old ones even more
- Gain experience and judgement
But living overseas is not easy:
- It requires courage to travel half way round the world to live with a new family in a new community very different from your own
- It requires flexibility to attend a new school, make new friends and perhaps learn a new language
- It requires an open mind to live in another culture, to observe and appreciate the differences and to truly learn from the experience
- ?You become immersed in the local community
- You will find that all the familiarity of home – the ways of doing things, the people, sights, sounds, smells - are suddenly no longer there. You will be confronted with completely different ways of seeing and understanding the world around you
- You may encounter homesickness and culture shock particularly in the early stages of the program
But if you are up for a challenge and have realistic expectations then being an exchange student can be a life changing experience.
To learn more visit www.studentexchange.org.au
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