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By now everyone who reads here knows how much I love traveling and how fascinated I am by various cultures and customs. Tourism is fine but I’d so much rather become a part of the culture I am visiting.
If I could give my children any gift, it would be the real life experience of traveling abroad to learn first hand about the way other people live. Nothing we read in books can compare to living within a distant land, side-by-side with the people there. That’s true learning and from that kind of learning comes an understanding that is priceless.
My daughter seems interested in traveling for education and we’ve been researching online, trying to gather as much information as possible since she will be entering high school next year. Most student exchange services begin during the high school years.
We’ve located Study Abroad Forums for Education Agents, International Students and Schools and are learning a great deal there. The Ask An Expert Forum is a great resource for those of us who have never done anything like this before. In fact, the entire Area A section is jam packed with information and advice for students who want to study abroad.
My cousin and his wife have housed a number of foreign exchange students over the years and found the experience to be so rewarding for themselves as well as the kids they hosted. I’m going to make sure they check out these great informational forums for themselves. And in the meantime, my daughter is poring over the posts there, trying to gather as much information as possible. I can see that glimmer in her eye already, every time she mentions something else she’s read there. She’s going to be a world traveler like her mother, that’s for sure.
What fun and learning awaits her! I think I’m as excited as she is.
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This is one thing I regret the most in my life - the lack of traveling that I have done. There are so many places I would want to go to that I can’t even list it here. I think I might reserve that for a blog post one day.
Yes, a list of all the places you’d like to visit. My list is always growing, though.