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How to Live and Take It Easy as an Exchange Student
Are you contemplating of signing up as an exchange student in Manhattan?
Regardless of where you’re from and your destination of choice, you must prepare for the change that you will experience once you decide to study and live overseas. Doing so will make the transition easier and less stressful.
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Once you’ve worked out the details of your exchange student program, you should focus on how to make your life abroad easier.
How to Live the Awesome Life of an Exchange Student
Learn the language
This is especially helpful in places where language barrier can pose a major problem. It will work to your advantage if you are fluent in the local dialect. But if you’re not, just learn to communicate in a basic survival way.
If you intend to study where your native tongue is spoken, communicating may not be a cause for concern. You just need to learn how to be proactive in starting a conversation with new people.
Learn the culture
Are you living in a place where schedules are flexible? You could experience culture shock when you study in a place where schedules are rigid and followed on the dot.
Are you accustomed to talking loudly, especially when traveling in groups? You might end up being reprimanded for doing the same thing in places that frown upon such behavior.
If you make an effort to learn the culture, you will be able to behave accordingly.
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No need to shop for household needs either.
You also have the option to live close to your school if there are student rooms on offer.
Get accommodation needs out of the way, so you can tackle the other stuff that will help make your life as an exchange student easier.
Take the initiative
Don’t wait to make things happen. Do something to make things happen. Just like when trying to make friends, you make an effort to communicate with others rather than wait for them to make a move.
It is important to remember that your new classmates and the people around you already have friends, family, and a life before you came along. Unless you initiate to befriend them, they will not make room for you.
Go out and have fun
Having new friends is one of the most effective ways to make your move easier and spare you from homesickness. So don’t spend too much time in your student residence, on your phone, or online. Go out and do something productive.
When spending time with other people, be sure to disconnect from the virtual world and be in the