<p>Excellent ideas & observations, especially regarding the fact that the students friends won’t be at home. I am the advisor to the foreign exchange students at our school. The vast majority love it & profess that it is the best year of their lives. However when many come back to visit in following years, they find it to be not as great as they remembered, mainly because it isn’t the same group of people, doing the same things, at the same stage of their lives as when they were in their american year of high school.</p>