What Are the Benefits of Students Exchange?

Student exchange is a program that provides an opportunity for students to taste the education system abroad within a certain period of time. By doing a system of student exchange students who follow it can while studying the culture in the country, so that you can adapt well. Inevitably you have to learn the culture of their country and can apply in your country after returning home later.

In addition to being an exciting experience, participating in a student exchange program also has a myriad of benefits that can certainly help you in shaping and developing your abilities.

Expand Relationships

When you take a student exchange or attend school in another country, you will definitely adapt to new people from that country, your friends will automatically become relationships that will probably benefit you.

Having relationships in various countries can provide many benefits for you in the future. It could be later when you are traveling and need help you can contact your friends who are in the country, or in terms of work affairs. Can you find out about the country from friends you know when exchanging students, right?

Opening Up Insights About Other Cultures

The first thing new people do in a foreign country is learning their culture, why? Because by learning their culture it will make you easily adapt to each other. Especially as students who follow the exchange of students to learn the culture of the country, to appreciate and apply the rules and culture that apply.

The story shared by Nayla Arzani and her Indonesian friends is one example. At that time, he and his friends joined a student exchange program in Turkey. After returning from there, he has adapted to the local culture and brought good habits from that culture.

“…We bring the habit of kayaking on time, speaking polite words, and living regularly, which later all of that can be applied to Indonesia again, "he said, quoted from the Kumparan website.

By studying other cultures, you can expand your knowledge and experience, studying the culture of other countries means increasing our knowledge and experience about the language, customs and culture of other countries that will certainly be very different from our country even our region is the first, the second reduces culture shock knowing international culture can reduce culture shock when we travel or move to an area or a certain country. The third grows the taste. Learning international culture can be a place for us to understand each other when communicating with them and appreciating the differences that exist. So that we can avoid conflict due to differences in culture, race, religion, or language.

Makes Us Brave

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!