Questions and Answers

This post is just going to be about me answering a lot of questions I’ve been getting recently.

Q: How long is the exchange?

A: This exchange is for eleven months. I’m leaving August 4, 2019 and I will be coming back sometime in July 2020.

Q: How can I contact you?

A: For the first three or four months I won’t be answering anyone’s texts, emails, snaps, DMs, FaceTimes, etc. I don’t mean to be rude in doing this; it’s just so I don’t get homesick. Everyone I’ve talked to that has gone on this exchange has said that the first three months are the hardest for them because of getting use to a new culture and trying to pick up the language. I will be posting things on this blog during the three months. After three or four months (depending on how I’m doing) I will answer people’s texts, emails, snaps etc.

Q: Will you be attending school in Switzerland?

A: Yes I will. As far as I know right now it’s a high school in my town.

Q: Does your schooling over there count when you come back?

A: No it doesn’t. I will be coming back to finish my grade 12 year. So... I will be graduating in 2021 instead of 2020. It’s like I’m taking a victory lap.

Q: Where are you staying?

A: I will be staying in a town called Burgdorf and it’s just outside of Bern. I’ve already talked to the family and they are very nice. I can’t wait to meet them! I’ve been taking with the host daughter and she is so nice! She did a Rotary exchange this past year so she said she would help me a lot. Thank god!

Q: Will you be staying with the same family for the whole year?
A: No, I will be going to a new family every three or four months but they will be in the same town so I’ll still be able to attend the same school.

Q: Will you know anyone there?

A: Nope. I’m the only one I know going to the same town. There is another exchange student in my district here in Canada and they are going to a city/town that is 45 minutes away from where I am. So I won’t be totally alone.

If you have any more questions I’ll be glad to answer them.

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