Studying Abroad in High School

momofmusician17
Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:18:45 +0000

Thanks for all the information. I am not sure where my daughter would attend school as we are just in the infancy stages of planning. We hadn’t thought about sending her to an English language school as she/I were thinking more of Japanese immersion.

The owner of the company where I work, who is Japanese and very well connected in Japan, already has a family in mind for her stay. My daughter is not a child who needs warm and fuzzy, but it would be nice to have someone with which to do things from time to time. I would say that her main goal is to be completely fluent in Japanese. Her secondary goal is to experience Japanese culture/life. This is all self driven as I don’t know a word of Japanese. I am just trying to support her passion. We will be hosting two Japanese students from Tokyo who are the same age as my daughter for ten days in August. This will give her an opportunity to ask many questions about Japanese school and life from two children “in the know”.

On the plus side, I know her high school counselor well as he was my son’s counselor when he was there. As I am not a complete stranger to him and he knew my son, it may make him more likely to facilitate her study abroad plans.

Thanks again!