Often times you meet people who have a lot of their experiences and stories to share regarding them being an exchange student. Now going out to become an exchange student and studying in foreign isn’t very common, but it might not even be that rare anymore. There’s a lot of people who dream of having their higher degrees in a foreign country as an exchange student, and that’s more of a great future plan too! Although with all the great perception of how life would change to be once you go to a foreign country as an exchange student isn’t very much clear for many. With so many people telling fun and interesting stories of how studying abroad changes their lives for good, it might not all be just that.
That’s simply because with being an exchange student and having all the fun you think you would have in a foreign country, there’s a lot more you aren’t well aware of. On top of what comes in when you leave for your studies in foreign is the struggle of safely and securely moving out of your home with all your necessary stuff. Like you can’t move your entire room with you to your new home on the other side of the world, right? That’s where specialist removal companies help you out on the struggle of moving out to a new home with a new family as a foreign exchange student while eliminating most of your packing and moving stress. But once that’s done, the real struggle and a bunch of realities you haven’t been told about are yet to come. Let’s just discuss some of the most obvious and common realities you may face while being an exchange student.
The Cost and Scholarship Programs
It is often considered that foreign exchange students have to pay a lot to afford education as an exchange student, because, well, there aren’t any scholarship programs available for them. So, many consider exchange studies to be something that only rich people can afford to have. But that’s surely not true as many scholarship programs are available in a lot of the universities. Most of such scholarships are availed by the students who want to study as exchange students, which makes it easier for them to afford it.
You’ll Be Fine With Just English
When it comes to having foreign students through exchange programs around us, we’ve often seen them having various different mother tongues which seem to be quite cool. That’s because we’ve had everyone natively speaking English around us so much that a change in language and mother tongue amuses us. But one great thing about the very same old English of ours is that it’s something we can easily survive with, in any foreign country. So if you’re heading to France and you don’t know much of French, you will still be able to survive with just English too. Although it wouldn’t be as easy as understanding French would be, still, English may be the only thing keeping you going in that foreign country.
Your Home May Not Be Like Your Home
When you move in with a different family as an exchange student, things might seem new and awkwardly formal in the beginning. But with the passing time, as you’ll get fond of the family members that you’ll live with; things would start being more comfortable. Like you could easily lie down on the sofa and eat whatever you want from the kitchen, without having to ask for it every time. But with ease, there’ll still be some rules and habits you’ll find different to follow. With that, even at your new home, you’ll know some things are going to be different.
Graduation Will Always Be on Time
People often consider that when you’re an exchange student, moving to a foreign country and out of your homeland; you aren’t able to include all your attended classes, making you start over and waste a lot of the time. So, they make traveling plans for after graduation and find it a better decision than wasting so much of the time and get graduated so late. But things are quite simply the opposite for exchange student’s graduation in this aspect, allowing them to graduate right on time.
Now the sound and feeling of being a foreign exchange student might just be amazing, but the adventures and struggles that come along with living as one might not all be fun! But that’s just how everything in life goes, right? So if you’re well prepared, rightly planned and ready to take on whatever comes to you, your dream of graduating as an exchange student might just become easier.
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