It’s hard to believe that Katie Schlagel is only 18 years old. International youth exchange has made her particularly wise about...
Ivona Vanekova has been selected as the ICES Student of the Month for April. Ivona is from Prievidza, Slovakia and is living with...
Tags: Exchange Student, Student of the Month, Youth Exchange
We are proud to introduce Jana Dieckmann as our Student of the Month for February. Jana is from Gifhorn, Germany and is living...
ICES is pleased to announce that Cailin Valtink has been selected as the ICES Student of the Month for December. Cailin is from...
Tags: Cultural Exchange, Exchange Student, Student of the Month
Your exchange student is living thousands of miles from home for an extended period of time. Virtually everything is different...
Sometimes love is found in the most unexpected places. We at ICES hear about students' and host families’ wonderful,...
Wouldn’t it be fun to have a good friend in Spain?
Tags: Host Families, Exchange Student, Host an exchange student,
There’s a difference between learning a language and acquiring a language–in a natural way:
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Every year hundreds of foreign exchange students fill the empty nests of veteran parents. Is the experience mutually satisfying?
Tags: Host Families, Exchange Student, Host an exchange student
The 18-year old me spent the summer listening to Spanish lessons on vinyl records, obsessively checking the mailbox for news of...
If you’re the mom of seven kids and your husband travels for work, what do you do? Host an exchange student, of course! While...
I love to ask foreigners what they think of Americans. But how can we get them to tell us what they’re really thinking? Here are...
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