By participating in student exchanges, you will become more courageous in several ways, such as:
- Dare to adapt to different weather in your home country.
- Talk and socialize with new people.
- Speaking a language, you have never used before.
- Dare to try new things, such as: staying at your friend's house that is a different culture, tasting food in the country, etc.
- Dare to learn new things, excel, and compete healthily with students in the country.
Add Experience and Expertise
Student exchange programs do provide new, unique, and different experiences, which you may not get in the country or in educational programs in general.
Nayla Erzani is one such example. When conducting a student exchange program to Turkey, this SMAN 34 Jakarta student has a fairly unique experience.
"I was the same cobbler near the AFS office (in Turkey, -pen). Surprisingly, he speaks English because he often serves tourists and is quite fluent. I often talk to him about a lot of things, the people are very good," he was quoted as saying by the Kumparan website.
In addition to experience, participating in a student exchange program can also add to your skills. This is in accordance with the recognition of Ernest Elija, who had attended a student exchange program in the United States.
"In addition to the real benefits such as certificates that are quite prestigious, if I feel the most in the courage to express opinions. After the program (student exchange, -pen) so not shy about it, even sometimes timid," said the participants of this student exchange program, which was also reported from the Kumparan website.
Those are some of the benefits that you can take from student exchange, hopefully, the above article is useful and motivates you to join student exchange!
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