real student exchange program

A student exchange program is a program in which a student, chooses to live in a foreign country to learn, among other things, language and culture.Students live with a host family, who are usually unpaid volunteers and can be a traditional family, a single parent, or a couple with no children at home.

Student exchanges became popular after World War II, and have the aim of helping to increase the participants' understanding and tolerance of other culture, as well as improving their language skills and broadening their social horizons.

An exchange student typically stays in the host country for a relatively short period of time, often 6 to 10 months.

Some students on exchange programs can receive academic credit from the country they study in.

venerdì 22 ottobre 2010

2 manden

hi guys.... today it's 2 moanden since i m here:)
i m going naar Amsterdam :)
have fun :)
and good fall holiday :)

domenica 17 ottobre 2010

8 weeks

hi everybody ,overhere everything bout the last 2 weeks :)
week7:
mmm i don't really remember so much about the beginning of tht week, but that i met (as my english teacher suggested me) a half italian woman who works at my school :) it was pretty nice, cuz it was the 1th time i could speak italian not on the phone :) actually it was not a real italian, she had a very strong accent.. but it didn't matter, i met someone to speak italian with n this is the most important thing for me :)
that women is bilingual, a lot of people are blingual here, n it makes me think... in Italy everybody say that nowdays it's very important to know other lenguages, as it can help u to find a job,but here everybody speak at least 2 lenguages and that's quite common , this is not something special, u are supposed to know more than one lenguage n u also gotta have someting more,otherwise u don't have a lot of possibilities,and it made me a little worry bout my future....but i m still young... so this is not the time to think bout it :P
than on zaterdag 9 i went in utrecht with travel active :)
i went to the hoorn station where i had to wait for Diego ( a mexican guy), we had to take the train together... i was waiting n waiting..but he was not there, so i bought a ticket n i took the 1th train ,than i met some italian guys there, so  i introduced myself n luckly they were from Napoles too :) wht a coincidence :), so for for the 1th time i could really speak italian for few hours , it was so weird for me, i mean during these 2 months i only spoke english everyday and it was so weird i think my accent was kinda weird in the begining , but thn everything allright.it was so fucking nice!!!!
then we arrived in utrecht n i went round with them cuz i was too early, thn i went to the apponitment with the other exchange students n they were already there ...it was so awesome meeting everybody again now tht our experience is started n compare my experience with the others, asking everybody how is it going on etc. some of them are very happy in their new family and evrything is going allright, others have more problems , n i was a little sorry of tht cuz everything's allright for me here ...but it was very great talk with them bout dutch people,cuz we could note the same things about them,for ex that they very rarely touch you, so everybody was touching eachother the most he could , cuz we really miss tht, n it was very funny looking everybody embracing sombody else :)
than i could also notice that it was harder than the last time speaking so many lenguages all together, maybe this is because last time i had a week to get used to,but it was so confusing for my brain, for ex it was me and flavia n we were speaking italian , than came Camila , so we had to speak spanish, than came Rafael so we had to speak english, then we went to the restaurant and we had to speak french, than people was talking us in dutch ... oh my god!!!! and sometimes u didn't remember one word in english n u could say it in spanish or oh wht the hell...my head was going to kill me,it was like: y r u doin it to my???wht's wrong with me???
when we finished with travel active i went back in hoorn n thn i went to david & medy's party,we were something like 12 people n we went at the bowling :) i was very bad in it :S,but it was rather funny,than we went at medy's home and we gave them our presents, and it was very funny cuz we  hided their presents in the living room n they had to looking for them ,than they explaned me tht it's not very usual, dutch people usually do it with young children :) an in the end we sleept over medy :)
week 8:
it was quite a chilling week, the goal of the week was improoving my dutch n shift to another metod: not studyng anymore dutch grammar in class, but try to follow the lessons even tought i can't get so much...
i did it, n in some class it was preatty good, also if it was very very tiring, every break i was so tired, infact i m going bed earlier, but it doesn't metter i really wanna learn this dutch!!!
in the end yesterday i hanged out with josef :) very relaxing weekend i suppose.
well next week i m going 9 days in amsterdam (fall holidays) n i m looking forward tht moment :)
a kiss to everybody 
       Allee



lunedì 4 ottobre 2010

6 weeks

hi everybody,this is my 6th week here....
i m a little excited :) now i really feel at home,
this week i went 4 days in maastricht (limburg) with my school... we went in a park where there were a lot of bungalows n we had to share it with other classmates.
i shared mine with bianca bina nhu julia n danique :)
the 1th day we went to a river n we had rafting n some girls canoing:)it was very nice cuz we were in the middle of the river n one shore belonged to netherlands n the other one to belgium :)
than the 2nd day we went to maastricht university n we were very very tired because of the night before :P n then when we were back we went to a disco... very nice music, i had a lot of fun :)
the day after we went in some caves:WANDELING GROTTEN. it's very terrible i don't suggest it.it was very very cold   and it was absolutely boring and uninteresting,furthermore the guid only spoke dutch... so i couldn't get anything :S, then we went to a BONNEFANTEN MUSEUM,it was very interessing.than we wen to workshop... i dunt wanna explain it i m sorry,and than we had shopping in maastricht :)the last day before to leave we went to skiing :) quite funny.
this is very hard for me explain u wht's in my mind, sometimes i m very very happy :) i really like my new friends ) they r very nice with me :) n i really enjoy spending time with them, and with the family too everything is allright :) i really love my sister :) sometimes i think i m very lucky to have her!!! i didn't think it was so helpful and wonderful, but that's very awesome possum !!!
but sometimes u know this is very hard, speaking everyday only in english and sometimes try to speak dutch,n i have to stay all day long with dutch people tryng to understend , n often i don't...:S
somethimes i just think that my brain is going to exploud!!!!
but overall everything is ver awesomepossum so let's go on :)
  xoxo ale