Student Exchange Programs

I am trying to plan for college and i need some help. I want to go to college completely out of the country. I have no interest nor desire to spend anymore time in the U.S. I want to go to college in Sweden at Stockholm University and im just not sure if i will be able to go there and do all the regualr undergraduate studies. Im just not sure im confused. If u had the right grades and everything was perfect for me to get in could i go to college in sweden and do all my years there. Please help because i will not go to college in America and i DONT want to be an exchange student i just want to be a student there.

I’m interested in being a foreign exchange student. Right now I’m looking at the rotary club program. But I was wondering if there are any other safe, reliable programs. Programs that offer scholarship would also be very nice.

i want to have the experience of going to japan and living with a host family and going to a japanese school, by being an exchange student of course but my school doesn’t have an exchange program :/ is there any other way?

Okay it started when I was in kindergarten. There was a boy who was best friends with me. Then one day we were playing a game he called “try not to shout” he then proceeded to hit, kick, punch me all over my body. I apparently had made a lot of noise when i broke something ( I have no idea what it was) and the principal came over. The boy said I hit him and I remember getting really upset at this. Fast forward one year. I have broad shoulders and am large for my age. The kid calls me fat, stupid, and ugly all year. Of course only being 6 stuff like that made me upset. In 2nd grade we had a class on why we should tell a teacher if someone hurt our feelings. I was planning on it, but (from what my mom remembered me telling her) the kid threatened me. He picked on me the rest of the year. In 3rd grade he verbally abused me and taunted me at my lack of baseball skills, and he shoved me off a rock or a swing set or something. In 4th grade I finally told a teacher, and the teacher told me he was just kidding. She sent me to the guidance office where when I opened up about my story the teacher said I was “fibbing” and the kid was very nice. The verbal abuse continued. In 5th grade I reported him and another boy. Again the teachers chose to neglect it. In 6th grade he switched schools, but my sadness was far from over. I am an actor and 8th grade boys would pick on me and one kicked me in the head. The original kid’s friends started to apologize for picking on me and I forgave them. In seventh grade (last year) I wasn’t getting bullied anymore. However I still felt awful. I hit and beat myself, and taunted myself often. These events have made me extremely shy and am scared of other people’s opinions of me. I still abuse myself and am considering cutting as a new way to hurt myself. I try to keep these feelings of HIGH hatred of myself in, but every once in a while I just break down and cry. I don’t tell my mom or anyone I hate myself because I’m afraid they won’t like me because I’m different. Counselors have never helped me ever. I am 13 and going into eighth grade worried that the German exchange students that stop by our school will hate me because I am a tour guide. I tried to kill myself in elementary school which is unknown to my parents. I think about this every day and is taking over my life.

BQ: Can I go to therapy for this?

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I have been thinking about becoming a foreign exchange student in England (hopefully in London or Oxford) or somewhere else in the UK..If anyone else has had experience in this country as a student and could tell me about some of the things I could expect and if they think it would be a good idea please share Thanks so much
By the way I am talking about being a foreign exchange student in High School, not college, I am going to be a junior and would be going to England my senior year if that is what I decide.

I am good friends with a large group of exchange students from Saudi Arabia. I’d like to help them and support them this month but I’m not sure how. Any suggestions?

I would really like to become a foreign exchange student in the near future, and I would specifically like to visit South Korea. I love everything about their culture; language, music, food, etc., and I have been interested in visiting lately.
I wanted to begin to think about programs since I’m young (I’m only 13), and I’m finding it hard to do so. I wanted to visit before I graduated high school (this isn’t something I MUST do, but I would like to visit before I begin college to see if I might want to go to college there or stay in the United States), and I was wondering do you guys know any programs that are good and worth looking into?
I am studying the Korean language right now (I’ve learned how to write and I have become good at it, I am picking up fluency when I speak, I know the basics of speaking so far), and I’m learning how to cook different Korean foods too I submerge myself in their culture basically everyday, but I know that going to Korea will definitely strengthen my knowledge about Korean culture.
My parents know that I love Korea and everything about it, and I’ve talked to my mom about studying abroad and she seems OK about it.

P.S.
I also have to ask the one question almost every foreigner asks about: How do they really treat us being in their country?
From all the different encounters I have heard, they seem rather friendly and sweet. I wouldn’t mind the stares, I would stare at somebody too if I had never seen them in my country before. I know that South Korea just recently opened up to foreigners (right after World War ll I believe… I think that’s quite recent) and they are just now beginning to garner attention and interest from around the world because of their media and unique style of culture. Since Korea is so homogeneous, it’s hard to see foreigners there unless you’re in Itaewon, Hongdae or other places like that. People say that not even Seoul has a lot of foreigners.
I am mixed with a bunch of different ethnic backgrounds: I am African American, French, German, Native American and Korean (and I believe my grandmother was… Irish?), so there’s really no telling how they would react to me, haha. I have skin that ’s like peanut butter complexion (maybe a bit more yellow and reddish) and straight dark hair. I don’t have un-ordinary features, a small nose, small lips, slightly large eyes, 5′5″ (I doubt I’m growing any taller, maybe 5′6″ bet that’s it >__>)… Every time I encounter an Asian (or actually anybody) they always asked me if I’m mixed and they are just… curious. So if I get that in the USA, I’m sure I’ll get it there, but I’m ’scared’ of the reaction. But people tell me that if you give respect you’ll receive respect there. I’m just curious >.

I will be going to Germany for six months (as a foreign exchange student, I’m sixteen years old) and need a cell phone while i’m there. any suggestions to what cell phone company i should go thru? i’d like semi cheap but don’t want a trac phone. thanks! pleasseee help!

Okay it started when I was in kindergarten. There was a boy who was best friends with me. Then one day we were playing a game he called “try not to shout” he then proceeded to hit, kick, punch me all over my body. I apparently had made a lot of noise when i broke something ( I have no idea what it was) and the principal came over. The boy said I hit him and I remember getting really upset at this. Fast forward one year. I have broad shoulders and am large for my age. The kid calls me fat, stupid, and ugly all year. Of course only being 6 stuff like that made me upset. In 2nd grade we had a class on why we should tell a teacher if someone hurt our feelings. I was planning on it, but (from what my mom remembered me telling her) the kid threatened me. He picked on me the rest of the year. In 3rd grade he verbally abused me and taunted me at my lack of baseball skills, and he shoved me off a rock or a swing set or something. In 4th grade I finally told a teacher, and the teacher told me he was just kidding. She sent me to the guidance office where when I opened up about my story the teacher said I was “fibbing” and the kid was very nice. The verbal abuse continued. In 5th grade I reported him and another boy. Again the teachers chose to neglect it. In 6th grade he switched schools, but my sadness was far from over. I am an actor and 8th grade boys would pick on me and one kicked me in the head. The original kid’s friends started to apologize for picking on me and I forgave them. In seventh grade (last year) I wasn’t getting bullied anymore. However I still felt awful. I hit and beat myself, and taunted myself often. These events have made me extremely shy and am scared of other people’s opinions of me. I still abuse myself and am considering cutting as a new way to hurt myself. I try to keep these feelings of HIGH hatred of myself in, but every once in a while I just break down and cry. I don’t tell my mom or anyone I hate myself because I’m afraid they won’t like me because I’m different. Counselors have never helped me ever. I am 13 and going into eighth grade worried that the German exchange students that stop by our school will hate me because I am a tour guide. I tried to kill myself in elementary school which is unknown to my parents. I think about this every day and is taking over my life.

BQ: Can I go to therapy for this?

IN SCHOOL OR OUT OF SHOOL COUNSLERS DIDNT HELP