Being a foreign exchange student can take a lot of learning and adapting. It can be scary going to a new place, with a new language, and a new culture. Each year, BHS has students from different countries join the student body to experience a year in America.

“Living here is very different, the location and scenery are different,” Hugo Santo from Brazil said. “The words and nouns are hard, the vocabulary is very different.”

Going to another country can present many opportunities.

“Im looking forward to having new experiences and trying new things,” Santo said.

“I’m excited for the school dances,” Perla Backberg from Sweden said.

Another exchange in BHS is Mats Rognstad from Norway.

“I want to try new things like prom, dances, and the bash because we don’t have those in Norway,” Rognstad said.

There are sports and classes in America that are not in other countries that students can experience while here.

 “I’m trying welding and football, we don’t have football in Brazil,” Santo said.

“I have been playing volleyball which i have never done, so that’s fun,” Backberg said.

Schools from one country to another vary in their policies, the curriculum that they teach, and how people are expected to act.

“It is very different, not worse or better but just different,” Santo said.

“It is very small, not like my school in Norway,” Rognstad said.

Foreigh exchange students need somewhere to live and hosting them can be a new experience.

“I really enjoy it, it’s like having a sister and friend all in one, I would recommend it and would so do it again,” exchange student host Brianna Mitchell said.