Do most people have good study abroad experiences?

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Jana Sakasegawa: You almost certainly will have a few bad experiences. This is just part of living in a foreign country and a foreign culture. The reason you hear about so many good study abroad experiences is b! ecause once people are able to step back and examine things in their entirety they find that the positives so far outweigh the negatives that they tend to forget the negatives.You will help yourself out a lot if you learn about French culture before you go. Not the silly stuff you learn in French class like what they eat for breakfast, but about the way the French as a society think and function and interact. Once you have a basic understanding of the forces that drive their culture you will start to understand *why* your host family won't want your friends at their house. Check out books like "Almost French" and "A Year in Provence" for a general idea; you can also read scholarly works for a less personal and more academic understanding.My other piece of advice is to avoid speaking English as much as possible, including using the English internet and listening to music/watching TV in English, and avoid contact with home (via phone, email and everything else) as much as ! you can. Immersing yourself in the language and culture will ! improve your language and coping skills; avoiding contact with home will prevent you from getting too homesick. The best exchange programs force you to do this by banning cell phones and ipods and such, but if yours doesn't you'll need to police yourself....Show more