Hosting a high school exchange student can feel like inviting someone from another planet into your home. There will be culture...
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The honeymoon is over when homesickness hits. Your high school exchange student was so excited to get on that plane and fly into...
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Students from Hong Kong have a unique eastern-western point of view. So, what happens when they come to the USA? How do they see...
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Exchange students bring magic glasses with them to the USA. Let’s look through their lenses for fresh perspectives on ordinary...
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It seems cruel to limit a foreign teenager's contact with family and friends back home. Why on earth would anyone suggest such a...
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Around the world gift-giving traditions vary on special occasions of all kinds. Who gives gifts to whom? When? How should a gift...
As host parents we have a lot of explaining to do - the fun (even funny) kind of explaining. For example:
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I gathered my purse, snacks, jackets, and lap blankets and headed out the door to enjoy a soccer game with the kids: my three...
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In the 1960’s psychologists “discovered” culture shock. They were surprised that new immigrants needed so much medical care. A...
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Your exchange student is living thousands of miles from home for an extended period of time. Virtually everything is different...
Each fall, I welcome a new group of exchange students to the Oregon coast and watch them begin the process of adapting to their...
For most exchange students, October and November are the most difficult months of the exchange. Cultural differences that were...
