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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Going to Canada? The advices below will help you with meals and manners there! 
Meals
-Food in Canada can be different from the one you are used to. Try to sample everything, and if you don’t like something, say it (politely and tactfully) to your hosts.
There are 3 meals in Canada:
Breakfast: usually taken between 7 and 8 am, it is milk or coffee, with toasts and marmalade or cereals and milk, and orange juice. It is an important meal, don’t skip it!
Lunch: It is usually a quick, light meal. Usually, it will be a sandwich, a cake, a fruit and a drink.
Dinner: Generally taken between 5 and 7 pm, it is the most important meal of the day. Usually, the whole family meets, and you will likely have fruit, meat and vegetables, and a dessert. This is the occasion to practice your English or your French!
-If your family is not from an anglosaxon origin (70% of the Canadian population), the food will likely be influenced by their origin.
-If you want to cook a traditional meal from your country to your Canadian host family, ask them the permission, and also how to use electronics, since they can be different from the one you are used to.
-If you are not going to be home for a meal, inform your host family.
Manners
Always be polite with your family: use “please” and “thanks” when you ask something.
Communicate with your Canadian hosts: if you need something, you will have to ask them since they can’t know otherwise.
Always tell your host when you will be home or out, so that they don’t worry.
Upon arrival, ask their hosts about their habits: when the television can be watched, in which rooms you can go or not…
Don’t isolate yourself. Since Canadian people are really respectuous of others’ private life, if you shut yourself in your room they will think you don”t want to be disturbed. If you are tired, just tell them you need to rest a little.
Don’t expect your hosts to come to you to speak, watch TV… They will expect you to come spontaneously.
If you want to bring a friend over, first ask to your hosts.
Don’t hesitate to share your own advices with us!
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
You are planning to live in a Canadian host family? The advices below will help you to have an enjoyable experience with your host family abroad!
First day
Upon arrival, you will likely be very tired, and speaking in English or French with your Canadian family could be difficult.
Don’t worry, your family knows that. Don’t try to speak about too complicated subjects: instead of that, try to speak about where you come from, your family… You will have plenty of time during the rest of your stay to have long conversations with your Canadian host family.
Canadian host families
Canada is a multicultural country: Canadian citizen come from many countries. Even if they are not Canadian natives, they will speak with you in English or French, depending on the location of your stay.
The nuclear family is not as common as before: you may be with a divorced parent for example. Almost all women work in Canada. Even if this is different from your own family, you must try to adapt yourself: be open-minded!
Canadian Room
You may have to share your room with another foreign student, usually from a different country. This will be something you will know before departure.
Also, in some Canadian houses, rooms can be small: if you don’t have enough room for your things, tell it to your Canadian family: they will indicate you a place to put your things!
Washing clothes
Ask to your Canadian host family when they do your laundry, so you can give your clothes. Offer to do your own laundry if they show you how the machine works.
Bathroom
You will have to share the bathroom with the other members of the family. Try not to use it for more than 15 minutes. Ask to your Canadian host family which time is the best for you to take your shower. Bring your own products (shampoo, soap…).
Sundays
Sunday is a relaxing and religious day in Canada. Your family will be pleased if you accept to accompany them to church.
Household
In Canada, cleaning is made on weekends. Since women work, all family members participate in the house chores.
As a host, you will be expected to do little chores on a daily basis: make your bed, keep your things tidy.
Offer to dress up the table, and after eating help to clean up.
We hope these advices have been useful. Don’t hesitate to share your Canadian experience with us!
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
You are flying to Australia and will live with an Australian host family. You may feel a bit afraid since you don’t know what to expect of the family, or how to behave. Here are some general advices to help you get along well with your Australian host family.
Don’t go there as a tourist!
The whole point of a host family is to help you experiment the everydaylife of the country. It is really likely that your Australian host family will work and won’t have a lot of time to take you out!
Enjoy the time you will have with your Australian host family but don’t expect them to have so many time.
If you are going there with a group program, don’t go there to meet your friends: you will be in Australia to experiment the Australian life, so you wouldn’t benefit as much of the experience if you are always with friends from your country.
Don’t go there only to improve your English!
Your family knows you want to improve your English and will always be pleased to correct you when you are wrong. However, they wouldn’t understand that you have traveled to their country and live with them only for this. Share your own culture, try to be open. Also, if a member of the family or a child in the neighborhood is learning your own language, you would please him/her by challenging him/her sometimes!
Open yourself to your Australian host family!
Give your friendship to your Australian host family. Share your feelings with your family, but always pay attention to the vocabulary you are using, since some expressions like “I don’t care” or “It’s stupid” is a bit strong.
Your host mom and host dad will want to be your Australian parents: call them how they tell you to do, without hesitating!
Share your family expenses!
Even if you don’t have to, your Australian host family will appreciate small marks of attention: for example, flowers for your host mother, or a round of ices.
Also, if the family takes you out, always offer to pay for your part!
We hope these advices have been useful. Remember that a host that is open-minded, smiling, polite and generous will always go well with his/her host family! Share your experience in Australia with us!
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Meals and hygiene are two important components of everyday life : if you are going to live in an American host family, these advices below may be very useful!
American Meals
There are usually 3 meals in the typical American day:
Breakfast
Taken around 8am, breakfast is usually coffee or milk, with toasts, butter and marmalade, or cereals with milks, and orange juice. This is a very important meal, don’t skip it!
Lunch
Usually taken between 12am and 1pm, it is a quick meal, except on Sunday: Hamburger, hot-dog… Usually, you have to help yourself out in the fridge or go to the local fast food.
Dinner (or supper)
The American family doesn’t meet often to take this meal. It can be a pizza or a hamburger everyone eats when hungry. However, more traditional families take a real dinner together, eaten between 6 and 8 pm, with salad, meat, vegetables, dessert…
Don’t be afraid if your family doesn’t offer to prepare your meals: they will tell you to help yourself out and you should not hesitate to do so!
On Saturday and Sunday, in most families, breakfast and lunch will be replaced by a lunch, a “big breakfast”, that will be taken around 11am. On these days, there will be a dinner like the other days.
American people eat a lot of beef or chicken meat, but usually meals are balanced. Since people usually eat a lot of snacks between the meals, you will have to pay attention not to eat too much.
You should at least try to taste everything that is offered for you. And always thank your hostess and congratulate her for what she has prepared!
About clothes
Hygiene is a really important matter in the US: take it seriously!
- In most families, there will be several washings a week: ask to your family when you should give your clothes to wash it, and even offer your help to do it since usually washing machines are easy to use there: be sure to have understood how the machine works first!
American people really take cleanliness seriously. They would be bothered if you or your clothes were not clean: pay attention to this point: change your clothes and take a shower everyday.
We hope this information have been useful: don’t hesitate to share your experience with us!
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
You are going to Ireland or to England, and you will be hosted by a local host family? Here are some useful information and advices related to food and meals!
About meals!
Generally, there are 3 meals in the UK:
-Breakfast: you will generally have cafe or tea, cereals with milk, toast with butter/marmalade. Breakfast is a serious business in the UK: don’t hesitate to eat a lot since the lunch will likely be light!
-Lunch: usually taken around 1pm, this is generally a light meal. A typical lunch would be a sandwich, potato chips, a little cake, a fruit, fruit juice, sweets like candy bars… In most homestay, the family will provide you this lunch. If you are a “big” eater, you should try to take pocket money in order to be able to buy more food.
-Tea or Dinner: The evening meal is served early, around 5.30 or 6pm. This is the most important meal of the day. Generally speaking, you will eat a main dish followed by a dessert. In most English host families, your dish will already be served when you will sit at the table! If you are home after 6 pm, it is really likely the family will have already eaten. Since Britannic consider as impolite to watch their host eating when themselves have already eaten, you will likely eat alone.
Other generalities about food in UK and Ireland:
-Red meat is not eaten a lot in UK due to its high price. You will more likely eat chicken, turkey, pork or sheep. Meat is usually served with a brown dressing called “gravy”
-Generally, vegetables are boiled
-Bristish and Irish people don’t use a lot of fruits, but they love “sweets” like puddings, cake, syrup fruits with custard…
-Usually, there is neither bread nor water at the table. If you want some, you will have to ask to the family.
Expected behaviour!
Here are some information and advices on how to behave during meals in English and Ireland.
- Your hosts will be pleased if you helped with little household chores, like dressing the table. You also have to make your bed and keep the common places you’re using clean!
- Always be on time, and advise the family if you think you are going to be late for a meal.
- If asked about what you are served, be honest but tactful.
- Regarding manners, don’t be surprised if you see your hosts loadings their forks or having their hands under the table. British and Irish manners likely are different from the one of your country!
- At the end of your meal, put your knife, fork and spoon on your dish, but don’t cross them
- Meals are usually taken rather quickly. The family rather gathers in the salon afterward with a cup of tea to do the conversation.
- Above all, be open and try to taste everything! Never forget to congratulate your hostess for what she has prepared, she will appreciate it!
Have you other advices to share with us? Don’t hesitate to do so!
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
You definitively want to earn credits with your language course abroad. Don’t worry; it can be really simple, as long as you organize the procedure in advance!
Whether you are thinking to go with a well structured program or are planning a more adventurous trip, choose carefully where you want to go. If you want to get academic recognition, you will have to attend academic courses in a College or University abroad (or equivalent educational structure) in most cases. Some programs, like volunteer ones, or language schools, may also allow you to get academic credits. Carefully choose yours!
Once you know where you want to go and which program you intend to choose, you will have to gather as many information as possible about the academic courses you will attend abroad, or the tasks you will have to do if you are volunteering!
Also, check how your school transfers credits: it this a common policy, or are they more reluctant in giving out credits for academic programs abroad? Once you’ll have this information, try to prepare a short description of each course you will attend once abroad.
Get in touch with the adequate academic department before departure is very important: even if one of the courses you are going to attend is not recognized by your faculty, try to see with the counterpart department if they can offer you credits for this course.
For example, if you have chosen to attend a course called “ French history through Poetry”, if your Faculty of History is not interested in giving you credits, the Foreign Literature department may be!
Once abroad, don’t forget to go to courses, and above all, enjoy your stay!
Keep all documents that you will be given in classes, since they will be able to act like proof of your academic learning abroad.
Once back home, get your credits validated! Keep in mind the following advices: you will have to do the same procedure, by trying to get your courses abroad validated by departments. This time, you will already have attended courses and gotten grades. Also, you will have documents and proofs of the academic content of the courses attended.
Even if none department wants to recognize your program abroad (which is very unlikely if you have followed the steps above), stay positive and don’t forget that your experience abroad has given you unique skills that few of your schoolmates will have!
Some additional tips to get credits with study abroad programs:
Courses that require a certain amount of writing or research are usually granted credit once back home. If you need a certain amount of credits, be sure to include some courses that will give you credits back home no matter what.
Always keep your paperwork and bring them back home: you could find them useful if you have to prove the academic content of your courses.
Some courses abroad may use really different methods of teaching, and bring you out of classroom: even if these courses can be the most interesting ones, they can also be the harder ones if you need to get academic credit for them: gather as many documents as you can for these ones, and even ask for a letter from your teacher abroad! Also, never forget that perseverance pay off!
Remember, studying abroad is a unique opportunity, and even if you don’t get credits for your study abroad, you will have learned so much that you will quickly forget about that!
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
You are planning to do a language program or an academic year abroad, but you are not sure about the process to get credits from these courses abroad? Follow the simple steps below and get credits from your High School program abroad!
Step 1 : Choose your program!
The first step is to choose your program, its length and the country you are going to visit! Are you planning to go to France and live in a family for 2 weeks, or going to a whole academic year in Costa Rica? The decision is really important, since the length, type of program and destination are the main factors that will be considered to give you credits.
Step 2: Gather information!
Once you have decided where and with which program you want to travel abroad, gather as much information as possible about the school system, classes, grade system etc. … With the help of this information, you will be able to create a simple report of your program abroad, with classes you expect to attend abroad.
Step 3: Meet your High School counselor!
This is a very important step. Your High School counselor is here to help you and advise you the best he can about your plan to study abroad. You need to be able to give him/her a clear and objective presentation of your study abroad program. He/she will be the one that will decide to give you High School credits or not. You can also speak with your language teacher and try to involve him/her in the procedure, especially if he/she encourages you to study abroad or has a good knowledge of the educational system abroad.
Step 4 : Gather information, once again, and until departure!
After your meeting with your counselor, it is likely that you will have to prepare more documents, to assert that your program abroad will follow your school district requirements. During this step, always be in touch with your counselor and don’t hesitate to ask him/her if you are not sure of something!
Step 5 : Study seriously!
Well, it may seem to be obvious, but it is highly advised to attend courses seriously and do your homework, as if you were at home, in order to get good grades abroad. Send to your US school’s counselor your final choice of courses and level of classes, to get his/her final approval.
Step 6: Collect the right documents!
When your program abroad will be almost finished, don’t forget to speak with your teachers and school principal abroad. Even if they must have documents to fill for you since your arrival, it is better to remind them that you have to bring back home these papers with you, so that they don’t forget to fill them out!
Step 7: And never forget that…
If everything goes well, you should get High School credits for your program abroad.
But if you don’t get these credits, never forget that your experience abroad will be highly valuated by colleges, universities and employers: speaking another language and being fluent with another culture is a tremendous asset nowadays, and you will get “life credits” from it anyway!
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
You will find below the testimonial of 2 Canadian students who participated in Nacel’s programs! Discover how their experience abroad with Nacel was!
David, Academic Year Program in France
This testimonial has been published in Stettler Independent, a newspaper, in August 2005 and is about David’s experience in France.
“A different kind of education” (Laura Drake, reporter)
David of Stettler, Alberta spent an academic year in France (2004 - 2005), in the Brittany region as part of Nacel Canada’s Academic Programs. Though he chose to delay graduating from high school to participate in the program, David quotes ‘It was a great experience and I’ve taken a lot from it”. He does admit it took him about a month to adjust to the language, “I had a good vocabulary but putting it together so I made sense took about a month”. Though school kept him busy, he also found time to do some tourist things with his host family. Part of the program includes the participant be placed with a host family in the region. David describes his family as ‘very stereotypically French” for example, meals at home consisted of several courses. He also made lots of friends in France, whom he says he will likely visit when he returns to France.
Emma, Academic Year Program in Germany
This testimonial is an email received from Emma of Halifax, Nova Scotia, that she wrote us during her Academic Year Program in Germany. Emma participated in the Nacel Canada Academic Program during the year 2006-2007.
I’m happy to say that things are going much better for me here in Germany! The last time I emailed you I was requesting permission to go home to Canada for Christmas. Now that I look back at my last months here, I’m happy to have had the chance to experience a German Christmas, even if it was a little hard to be away from home. I’ve now gotten to the point where I’m into a comfortable routine and I look forward to going to school, seeing my new friends, and attending different activities here. Just like my Nacel handbook had said all along, it really does get easier!’
So, after reading these testimonials, are you thinking to be the next Canadian going abroad?
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Here is Ababacar’s testimonial. Ababacar, a young 26 years old French student, is currently participating in the Work and Study program in Canada.
The Work and Study program in Canada allows students to learn English in a carefully selected language school in Vancouver, and then to get some professional experience by working in a Canadian resort.
The Work and Study program is a 6 or 12 months program, and includes 6 or 12 weeks of in school language study, plus evening classes.
This is the perfect program for anyone wishing to discover Canada, but also wanting to get real work field experience!
When we interviewed Ababacar, he was beginning his Work and Study program in Canada, and was still attending courses in the language school in Vancouver!
Ababacar, would you agree to answer a few questions about your program?
It is with a great pleasure that I agree to participate to your interview. The school is cool, people are cool, the family is more or less cool, and I’m living with a Brazilian. This is a really great town, I’m having a crush!
Why did you choose to participate at this type of program (work and study)? Why did you want to improve your English? What were your objectives before departure?
I would lie if I’d say I have chosen this program only for the courses. I choose it because it would allow me to get money in addition to the courses. Regarding my objectives, before leaving France I wanted to do a theater school. I really want to be an actor, and now I want to stay in Canada to keep on studying there.
Speak about the school!
Courses are good. You are feeling at your ease upon your arrival, even if you’re shy. There are people from all over the world, a lot of Brazilians. Teachers are great, sometimes they speak quickly, but one, which I consider the best: Mr Hyde, I really want people to know he is the best, I succeed in understanding all the things he says, and I’m not the only one!
Nothing to say about the school’s location, it is in the heart of the city, many shops.
Courses are not boring! Why? There are a lot of breaks, and during these breaks you keep on learning since you speak English!
Thank you Ababacar! We hope you will enjoy the end of your stay!
Tags: advices, canada, english, Internships & Work Experiences, language abroad, learn english, learn languages abroad, life abroad, Testimonials, travel abroad, vancouver
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Here is Angela’s testimonial, a young Romanian student who participated in our High School program in Japan when she was 15. Our Academic program in Japan allows students to live during one year in Japan. During the academic year, students are hosted by a Japanese host family and go to a Japanese high school.
My name is Angela Pugna, I am from Romania and I have participated in the high-school one year program in Japan. At the age of 15, I decided that I need a change in my life-style, as only staying in my hometown and going to high-school seemed not to be motivating me enough to reach my potential. I never thought seriously of moving to another country before, especially not at such a young age. Being the only child of my parents, made the thought of going abroad even more difficult in the beginning. I was though aware of the fact that just staying there will make no difference in my future.
At 15, I still didn`t know too much about the world, but I must confess I was quite wise actually because I never tried to pretend I knew anything. I admitted that there are millions of things I should learn about the world so I accepted the challenge. Soon after this, I ended up preparing to go to live for one year in a completely different culture, with different language and habits, different religion and views about life. I was feeling extremely scared, but also so much excited in the same time. I had though a huge will to learn about other countries, I wanted to see how people in other parts of the world are.
I heard a lot and read a lot about Japanese people before going. I did my “homework” and tried to learn the language a bit before my departure. It definitely helped, but the amount of knowledge I started to accumulate after arriving there is incomparable. Learning the language from scratch in Japan made me feel like I was born again. I had the chance to learn again not only a new language, but new feelings, new emotions. I have to say it was confusing, feeling scared and excited from the first step I made in the airport. If I think back of it now, I am probably glad for every single emotion I went through. 
There were times when I was missing my family, my friends, when I was not feeling integrated at all in the new community, when the language was too much for me and I thought no one can understand me. I many times wanted to give up, but it would have been the biggest mistake of my life. Especially the hard moments, made me a strong and mature young lady who was ready to build up her own future.
I decided that I had to stay for another year in order to fully accomplish my goals there. It was more like an experience of learning about people and understanding myself in a different environment. My host family helped me a lot in this process. After going over a few cultural shocks and misunderstandings, soon my host mother became my best friend, the person who would not only teach me about Japan, but about life as well. Still very young and having many dreams, my host mother represented my source of motivation for my future. In all this time, all the support I got from my home country was indispensible. Knowing that my program coordinator was there to help me anytime I needed (though he was in Romania) gave me the confidence of expressing my feelings.
Probably the hardest job was the one my parents did. I now understand that actually it was a huge sacrifice for them to let me go away, and I admire and respect them more and more since then. In spite of having to face the distance, our relation became stronger than ever before and every second of my time spent in Japan I knew there is someone in the other side of the world thinking of me and strongly supporting me.
Sometimes I am still wondering if it was the right thing to do, but there was no moment I felt any regret about going. Giving it a second thought, I realize it broaden up my horizons. It was not only a real eye-opener, but the experience of living in Japan gave me the strength to undertake further challenges and set higher and higher limits for my dreams.
Because of the time spent in Japan, I have now the chance to live in England, where I am doing my university studies and here I am, preparing again to go to Japan in a few months, this time encountering a harder challenge: to integrate myself as a young professional in the Japanese business environment. The thought that I did it once, gives me the strength to believe there is no reason I wouldn`t be able to do it again. And that`s how the experience of living in Japan helps me believe in myself, again and again.
Are you dreaming of studying in Japan like Angi? Contact us to get information about this program!
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Here is a new testimonial! This one is from Tina, a 27 years old German girl. Currently, Tina is a teacher assistant in Australia.
The Language Teacher Assistant program in Australia is a program allowing students who want to become teachers to live and teach in Australia: during the program, participants assist a teacher of their native language. This program is a great opportunity for students since they will become fluent in English and acquire practical teaching skills that will be useful once back home.
Here is Tina’s interview. When she did it, she had been in the program for 2 weeks!
1. How are you getting along with your Supervising Teacher?
She is great! We get along very well!
2. Explain how you feel about your duties and the expectations of the school.
I assist the German teacher in the classroom and prepare exercises at home. It is good to see that I can support the students in learning German.
3. How are you getting along with your host family?
Perfectly!
4. How are your English language skills developing?
Every day and gradually, it seems to work a bit better.
5. Tell us about any new friends you have made?
I have met a lot of new people here since I arrived, especially at school, who are very friendly and helpful.
6. What clubs or what extra-curricular activities have you joined?
I have only been here for 2 weeks now. So far, I haven’t joined any extra-curricular activities yet. Moreover, I had some problems in coping with that heatwave in the first week after my arrival. Some of the time after school, I use for doing important preparations for my university studies. Besides, I take delight in discovering the highlights of Bendigo.
7. Tell us about any homesickness you are feeling?
I am not homesick at all :). I really feel comfortable here.
8. What is your biggest concern or preoccupation at this time?
So far, I haven’t any concerns :). I enjoy the time!
9. What goals have you set for yourself for the next three months?
- improving my English as good as possible
- giving the students a great support in learning German
- getting to know the Australian culture
Do you think the Language Teacher Assistant Program could be a great program for you? Don’t hesitate to contact us to get more information about it!
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
So, you will be going abroad, but you are a bit anxious on what to do during your free time and how to take the most out of it? Stop worrying, here are plenty of ideas to enjoy your free time abroad!
1 – Before going, check how much free time you will have! If you don’t have many, select what you must absolutely see and what is not that important!
2 – Also, buy a guide of the city/country, they often offer ideas of activities or itineraries.
3- If you are in a language school, try to participate in the activities organized, since they are often cheap and interesting.
4- Try to discover the local culture: go to a bar, get acquainted with locals!
5- Please be sure to visit all cities’ must-sees, but don’t forget to discover typical, less-known places like a little, hidden restaurant!
6- Ask to locals if they can advise you about what to see or do. There may be activities you haven’t thought of!
7- If you love sports, try to book a ticket for a game during your trip! It will help you discover this city’s atmosphere from another point of view!
8- If you are in the city for a long time, take advantage of it to rent a car with friends and discover the countryside.
9- Take advantage of your stay abroad to take local cooking lessons! You can even sometimes book it in advance!
10- If you are abroad for a long time and love to help other, you can see if there are any volunteer opportunities…
This would be a great experience for you and also will help you get new local friends!
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