The moment we’ve all been waiting for has almost arrived.
We’ve been yelling at the TV for months watching the games. We’ve been...
Tags: Cultural Exchange, Exchange Student, cultural understanding,
Our story really began when we lost our four-year-old son to cancer...
We are pleased to introduce you to the ICES Student of the Month for January, Olivia Ganbat from Stockholm, Sweden. Olivia lives...
Tags: StudentoftheMonth
My name is Marie Langer. I’m a 17-year-old French teenager and my biggest dream was always to be an exchange student in the US. I...
Tags: Cultural Exchange, Exchange Student, Student Experience
Is it difficult to host an exchange student on a gluten-free diet?
Hosting an exchange student transforms Christmas into an international event. What could be more fun than sharing your Christmas...
Leonie Laffitte has been selected as the ICES Student of the Month for November. Leonie is from Castres, France and is living...
ICES staff members spend their days providing exchange students with the valuable opportunity to learn, experience, and enjoy a...
In preparation for Thanksgiving, we launched a photo contest in which we asked our students and host families to share captioned...
Tags: Host Families, Host an exchange student, Student Experience,
A few years ago, the Browns' first exchange student literally stormed out of their home, leaving them heartbroken. Fortunately,...
Tags: Host Families, Cultural Exchange
A few weeks ago, we shared our students' first impressions of life in the U.S. Now we'll give our host families a turn to share...
It seems cruel to limit a foreign teenager's contact with family and friends back home. Why on earth would anyone suggest such a...
Tags: Culture Shock, Youth Exchange, cultural understanding,
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