Education during Exchange
Education During Exchange The purpose of this exchange program is to allow students to become familiar with life in their host country. Attending school is a very important part of life for participants. Education...
Outbound Student Content
Factors Important to Intercultural Adjustments
Open Mindedness… The ability to keep one’s opinions flexible and receptive to new stimuli seems to be important to intercultural adjustment. Sense of Humor… A sense of humor is important because in another culture there...
General Info
Feeling “At Home”
Reverse culture shock subsides, though it never disappears. Eventually, you will come to terms with yourself and your “new” native culture, incorporating the fact that you are now a member of another culture as...
Ways to Deal with Reverse Culture Shock
The single best thing you can do is to anticipate and accept that you will experience some degree of reverse culture shock. The worst thing you can do is to deny it or try...
Extent of Change in You
If your exchange year has been a success, you have changed in ways that you probably cannot describe, or completely understand yet. You have become a skilled world traveler. You are a skilled bicultural...
Reverse Culture Shock
As you return home, you are likely to experience some very similar, but possibly surprising reactions that are part of what is known as reverse culture shock, or re‑entry shock. In the first few...
Remember Initial Culture Shock
Remember Your Initial Culture Shock Remember what it was like those first few weeks and months coming to your host country? It was new, exciting, often confusing, and always changing. And while your whole...
Returning Home
Summary of Rules and Conditions of Exchange
Although Rotary International offers support to local Rotary Youth Exchange programs through publications and suggested guidelines, Rotary districts and clubs run their programs independent of Rotary International. Therefore, each club or district program will...
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