Rules

As an exchange student in a new country you will have to adjust to a whole new and different things like culture and rules. It is often the last that is the hardest, to learn to live and accept the new rules that your host family is setting up. USA is a country built on these, there are exactly everywhere in the US, and they will affect you on a everyday basis.



E.g on your High School, there are many rules that you never could have imagined in your own country, in some cases you maybe have to wear a school uniform, in other places, it can be a dresscode, you´ll have to dress according to a set of rules. Maybe the town your in have a curfew for anyone under 18.

As an exchange student, you will right away meet these rules. Some of them will make you frighten first time you´ll see them. We here at exchangestudentworld.com want therefor prepare you how it may be by writing about how it was where we spent our year.

Nicoline Nielsen Windom, MN - USA (2004 -05)
In my first hostfamily, I didn’t have any sudden rules, not that I knew of anyway. But after I moved to my second hostfamily, 6 weeks after I arrived, I moved into a house with rules. First of all, every school night we had to get ready for bed at 9 o’clock and turn of the TV at 10. There was also a curfew, I believe it was 11, I actually can’t remember, but back in Denmark I never really had a curfew, so this was new. One time I got grounded, for like 6 weeks, I thought it was unfair, but in some way I found it interesting. And I wasn’t really grounded for all times, I got to go to two birthdays parties, and I played fast pitch after school everyday, so I still got to hang out with people. I didn’t take it that hard, and I don’t think others should either. Its part of life and life moves on.