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• Tips
• Feel free to personalize this slide show so that
  you feel comfortable presenting.
• Include school appropriate personal pictures that
  illustrate your experiences in both the United
  States and in your home country
• Italicized portions of the slide show are meant
  to be personalized.
• Have fun! Your classmates will enjoy hearing
  about your experience!

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My Exchange Experience
Insert your countrys flag here
Insert map of your country here
Insert how many miles away your home country is
I am studying in the US for time frame
YFU offers summer, semester, and year programs
for study abroad, including a 13th year abroad
program.
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Why I chose to study abroad

• Reasons may include, but should not be limited
  to to learn English, to compare typical American
  values to values of your home country, to find a
  unique experience. Feel free to personalize this
  question with a short story about how you decided
  to study abroad.

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Why I chose to study abroad

• Continued from previous slide if needed. May
  include pictures.

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Cultural Differences
Typical hobbies or activities for teenagers in your home country. Major, or favorite, holidays in home country. Describe the style of celebration.
Describe some things youve had difficulty adjusting to in the US. Describe something you think American teenagers would have difficulty adjusting to in your home country.
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School In home country

• How many hours per week do we spend in school?
• Differences?
• Similarities?
• Cafeteria food?

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Food!
Insert picture, or name, of traditional food
from home country.
Insert picture, or name, of your favorite food/
dessert from home.
Insert favorite U.S. food.
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What is YFU?
Youth For Understanding USA is an international
exchange organization that is one of the worlds
oldest, largest, and most respected high school
exchange programs

• More than 225,000 students have traveled on a YFU
  program. This year, approximately 4,000 students
  will participate in our worldwide exchange
  program.

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Our Programs

• YFU USA offers more than a 100 different programs
  to over 40 countries.

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Change Your Life, Change Your World.
Obtain preferred college admission scholarships
to 150 participating universities across the U.S.
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Share Your Home, Change the World.

Include picture of you and your host family.
Host an international exchange student and bring
the culture of another country to your home
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All YFU students live with a carefully selected
host family for the duration of their stay.
Insert another picture of your host family here.
My host family!
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Tuition

• Tuition varies depending on airfare prices,
  length of stay, included activities, etc. Please
  check our website,
• www.yfu-usa.org for specific details.

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Scholarships Available!

• Through the generosity of corporations,
  governments, foundations, and individuals 300
  scholarships are available. Please check the
  website www.yfu-usa.org for eligibility,
  deadlines and scholarship specifics.

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Please contact YFU!

• CALL
• 1-800-TEENAGE
• Or check out
• www.yfu-usa.org