USA is a place where dreams come true My name is Ema and I am an exchange student from Slovakia. Currently I live in Oklahoma, Cashion with my host family, Cates. Normally people talk about their vacation experiences and what have they seen so far. But I want to talk about the sport activities that the exchange program in … Read More
It All Started with My Exchange in the USA
It All Started With My Exchange in the USA Don’t say it won’t work until you have tried it! Here I am, living in Taipei, two and a half years after I finished my high school exchange in Oregon. Since then I have lived in the UK, Denmark and Taiwan. Exchange was the first step of my adventurous, fun … Read More
Letter from natural parents in Germany
Letter from natural parents in Germany Dear Burbach Family, Rena is back home for more than a week. We are so happy that she had such a beautiful, exciting, interesting and intensive time in Gays Mills. She talks so much about the school, her classmates, the teachers, about the school days (which she always enjoyed very much, since the school … Read More
More Copper Country families needed to host ICES students
More Copper Country families needed to host ICES students TV 6 / Upper Michigan’s Source, Houghton, Michigan, February 6, 2020 by Remi Murrey When Amelie Adler heard she’d spend a year in the UP, she didn’t know how to react. Not because she feared moving away from home, but because she didn’t know it existed. “It was kind of surprising … Read More
Jonesboro welcomes Spanish teen
Jonesboro welcomes Spanish teen The Sun, Jonesboro, Arkansas, January 27, 2020 by Alex Gladden, Sun Staff Writer Before Julia Matheu-Corominas arrived in the United States, she didn’t know anything about Arkansas, let alone Jonesboro. But the Spanish student is making the city her home until May and attending Jonesboro High School. She’s living with a host family through International Cultural … Read More
Neuntefel loves to travel
Neuntefel loves to travel The Eclipse, Flint, Michigan, January 27, 2020 by Jonathen Hart, Sports Editor Senior Julia Neuntefel came from Austria to complete a semester of high school in America. Neuntefel is one of two exchange students who came to America for only a semester. “I could only come for a semester because I would have had to repeat … Read More
Maltempi is happy making friends, setting goals
Maltempi is happy making friends, setting goals The Eclipse, Flint, Michigan, January 21, 2020 by Hope Wills, Special Projects Editor Traveling from Rio Claro, Brazil to Flint, Michigan, senior Helena Maltempi was in for a fun high school experience in the United States during her first semester stay at KHS. Leaving Brazil was an experience for Maltempi, as traveling alone … Read More
Family hosts student from the Canary Islands
Family hosts student from the Canary Islands KAIT / Region 8 News, Jonesboro, Arkansas, January 16, 2020 by Jurnee Taylor / A program in town is calling on you for help, asking you to open your doors and your hearts. International Cultural Exchange Services is a program for foreign exchange students from over 20 countries in the world and one … Read More
I’m thankful for my life in Oklahoma
I’m thankful for my life in Oklahoma My name is Katka and I am an exchange student from Slovakia, but I live in Oklahoma right now with my host family. At first I flew to LA where I met my host family and we stopped on the way back in Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Big Texan. … Read More
My goal was to have the best experience possible
My goal was to have the best experience possible This week people asked me about my goals for 2020. I have never been a person that sets herself goals at the end of a year. I set myself goals whenever I feel like setting one. Last year when I came to the US my goal was to have the … Read More