Subject: exchange students

have anyone been to other countries as exchange students, and if you have, what do you think about it, and would you recommend it to others??

the reason i ask is that i'm considering going to an american high school next year, but would like to hear from someone who have tried it first:P

i was in norway....hard language,boring people(not all,of course),expensive life,nice country,a lot of fun,intelligent girls,and hard to impress them.About schools,a lot of organisation,learning from technique books,but few informations to learn.
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i was in groningen (nl) and had a lot of fun there, it was a great experience as well.
i can strongly recommend to go abroad. i know a lot of people who did it (to different countries all over te world) and everyone enjoyed it.

well, I'll go to USA to study college in 1 month, I'm travelling in august. I don't know what to expect, but people there has told me that people are great and yeah the definitly recommend the experience. Because you gain world wide knowledge, and the experience of being abroad, and alse to know people around the world

=)

okay thanks for the answers:)

Ice, i'm not really sure what you mean, did you like it or not??:P


i'm normally very shy, so i hope that by doing this, i'll be forced to talk to strangers, so hopefully it can help cure my shyness;)

i'm normally very shy, so i hope that by doing this, i'll be forced to talk to strangers, so hopefully it can help cure my shyness;)

I'm also a little shy but I enjoy and enjoyed going abroad ;) don't worry about this..

what you must worry about is stop being Madrid fan!!

:)

good luck then:)

if i'm going it'll be for a whole year, and hopefully i can get to play football while i'm over there, i have always wanted to do that;P

lol, i can't and willl never change that!!!!!!

i guess the biggest problem so far is that i'll have to word a lot to earn the money to go there, but i hope it's as good as it sounds;)

nice, what did you do there and where did you live? on the campus?

I also study in Groningen :)

thanks, I'm also looking forward on doing that, I'm south american [yipi] so I'll see. However, some guys have told me not to enter to any competitive teams, because I've got to focus on my university duties, and to keep the schoolarship lol.

But I'll see ^^

i don't really care that much about the "university duties" i mean i'll do my homework and stuff like that, but sport is more important than school to me, and i've always been top of my class anyway;P

I am in Charlotte, North Carolina (University of North Carolina at Charlotte). I am not exactly studying because I am in a research program and I am doing some experimental procedures and all that stuff.

I recommended it a lot, A great experience and a lot of fun.

well, i studied mathematics (wiskunde ;o) and lived in blekerslaan (home for exchange students).
what are you calling campus in groningen? - the zernike complex or the old part in the center?
what ever, i had most of my lectures in zernike, which meant crossing the whole city.

i can further recommend to look for an international student home as well, a lot of people from all over the world, which are all in the same situation. so even shy people (as i'm as well) find contact quite easily.

I don't even know about the exchange student homes in the center, but I meant the one on Zernike (which isn't there anymore by the way). I also have lecture on Zernike, so it's the same for me :-) It's good to hear you had a nice time here!

I also want to go study abroad. I'm looking to study in Spain someday!

Went to Italy(Bologna) as an erasmus student. Loved it.

I went to Sweden (Umeå) and if I had the time I would go again and again.