Tips and tricks for exchange students
The question is how to access your money once you are in the US. Usually, you don’t have the option of an exchange office to change Euros to US Dollar which means you have to get your money in a different way. In this article, I want to share my experience with handling money in …
Since a lot of young people don’t have the money to be an exchange student there is a way to be an exchange student for “free”! The keyword here is scholarships! In this article, I want to give you an overview of how scholarships work and what types of scholarships you can apply for. What …
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How much money does it cost to be an exchange student in America? That's the question I am trying to answer in today's article. Disclaimer: This may vary over the years to come! The following values are the average from five different exchange companies which are located in Germany. Status: 2020 The price for a full …
For most young people texting, calling and data is very important. Back when I was an exchange student calling and texting were extremely expensive but now you have a ton of options to choose from. Let's talk about what SIM-Card you should get for America. What SIM-Card did I choose? When I was an exchange …
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Yes, that's right! Before you become an exchange student the local company, you decided for, wants to get to know you a little more. Therefore they invite you to an interview before you get accepted by a company. Usually, they allow you to bring your parent or somebody you trust with you to the interview. …
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Since I have been an exchange student I have always asked myself, how does the whole thing work? How do they find host families? How does the Local Coordinator (LC) know that I want to be an exchange student? What is the reasoning for families to take on that big of a burden? In the …
Disclaimer: I won't be giving you a suggestion on which company you should choose for your exchange year. This decision should be made by you and your families. Gathering the information But I can give you the insights on how I choose the company I did my exchange year with. So after I decided that I …
So this article is all about becoming an exchange student and why you should or should not do it. Since you stumbled upon this blog, you are interested in becoming an exchange student. I want to tell you my story before we go into the details of why or why not you should become an …
Since I was an exchange student in 2010 / 2011 I was thinking about starting a blog about that topic. So I could write about the things I experienced while I was in the US. So the following article is going over my vision for this blog. In 2012 started a YouTube Channel with a …
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