The Exchange Student

Download or read book The Exchange Student written by Kate Gilmore and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daria is one of Earth's youngest licensed breeders of endangered species, and she has enough to do caring for her menagerie without having to cope with an exchange student from another planet. Besides Fen's color-shifting and endless questions, there is something about the way the lanky alien looks at her animals and his stubborn refusal to talk about the creatures of his own world that makes Daria nervous. Fen, on the other hand, couldn't be happier with his Earth family. Hoping for one pet, he finds himself in a zoo. With a sharp eye for human, alien, and animal ways, Kate Gilmore has written a fascinating tale.

Download or read book The Exchange Student Guidebook written by Olav Schewe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an exchange student, you receive the opportunity to experience another culture from the inside out. You live with a host family, you become part of the local community, and you learn the language. Even so, an exchange year is not one long holiday. It can be tough, and it may take time to adjust to the new culture and find new friends. In The Exchange Student Guidebook, author Olav Schewe presents a practical handbook to prepare you for life as an exchange student and help you tackle common challenges. Schewe considers • understanding the basics of student exchange; • evaluating reasons for going; • choosing a destination country and exchange organization; • living in a foreign culture; • staying with a host family; • finding new friends; and • dealing with homesickness and other challenges. Filled with practical advice and tips, The Exchange Student Guidebook provides you with a foundation to make your experience successful and memorable.

Download or read book The Exchange Student Survival Kit written by Bettina Hansel and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-awaited second edition! Study abroad has never been so popular. Students are embarking on life-changing adventures, and they need some tried and true advice. The Exchange Student Survival Kit has become the essential guide for young people traveling abroad, helping them better understand the unique experience of international exchange programs. More important, it shows students how to avoid many common misunderstandings and problems that can occur in the course of their adjustment to a new culture, a new family, a new school and a new community. Based on her years of research and professional involvement with AFS Intercultural Programs, Dr. Hansel has filled the book with examples taken from the experiences of dozens of exchange students from a broad spectrum of cultures. This much-awaited new edition includes: - New communications technology as it affects the experience: e-mail, instant messaging, cell phones, online games and blogs and information searches. - Important advice on personal safety and pressing concerns for parents and students in light of war, terrorism and crime. - Changes in society and family life that affect travelers: fast food replacing family meals, a new emphasis on religious beliefs, consumerism and globalism. For students going abroad, the Survival Kit is the first thing to pack!

Download or read book Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions written by Abdulrahman AI-Youbi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes. The environment in which universities currently exist is considered, and subsequently how an innovative culture might be established and maintained to enable global partnerships to be implemented and to succeed is discussed. The book provides an intense focus on why collaboration is a necessary ingredient for knowledge transfer and explains how to do it. The last part of the book considers how to sustain partnerships. This is because one of the challenges of global partnerships is not just setting them up, but also sustaining them.

Download or read book You Got Into Where? written by Joi Wade and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""You Got Into Where?"" is the first college admissions guide written by a student who is fresh out of the college admissions process. Learn how I was admitted to schools like the University of Southern California and New York University with full tuition scholarships. The guide features copies of my admissions essay, writing supplement, and activities resume that I used to apply to college the fall of my senior year. Get advice on all the secrets of the admissions process from start to finish. ""I can't believe that a 17 year-old has written a college admissions books that is so well-written, clear and accurate. No wonder USC jumped at the chance to have her become their student. My sense of things is that mostly parents read college admissions books; high school students just don't want to take the time. Given what she says and how she says it, I truly believe that teens will rush to read "You Got Into Where?" It is well worth their time."" -Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz Author, adMISSION POSSIBLE

Download or read book Free To Play written by Charlene Black and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is ready to Play. Are you? Helena Ekberg, a 21-year-old exchange student from Sweden, will spend the academic year in the pulsating city of London. There she meets the handsome and charismatic tantric practitioner Daniel Langston and his friends. Immersed into a foreign culture, she is now also introduced to a foreign sexual world, where nothing is what it seems - and where she will be pushed to her utmost limits. As the stakes get higher, Helena will need to look deep into her heart for answers. Will her heart find what it yearns for? Free to Play, Charlene Black's first full-length novel, dives headfirst into the secretive, esoteric, and often perplexing world of tantric Crazy Wisdom. Packed with an exuberant amount of explicit ecstatic sex, this erotic novel will entertain you with a great storyline and arouse all your senses at the same time. This scorching hot novel contains anything and everything from soft and sensual sex to extreme dominance bordering on the taboo and it comes with an Intense Melt Tantric Candy Heat rating (5 out of 5 - XXX stories, pushing the limits of what some deem acceptable). Special sexual interests include oral and anal sex, sex toys, straight sex, girl-on-girl sex, BDSM play, watching and being watched, threesomes, group sex, dubious consent, and off-the-charts-horny fuck talk. Are you a fan or explicit erotic fiction with a touch of romance and a good storyline? Are you interested in tantra and conscious sex? Or are you looking for an intensely horny read? If the answer to any of these questions is yes - then this book is a must-read for you. Free to Play is the first book in The Exchange Student series and it can be read as a stand-alone novel. This novel was first published in 2018 under the name of The Exchange Student. In this first edition of Free to Play a few minor alterations have been made to the original text. This book is a novel of approx. 64 000 words.

Download or read book Teen Titans Go!/DC Super Hero Girls: Exchange Students! written by Amy Wolfram and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starfire has always wanted to be better friends with her sister, who mostly comes to Earth to cause trouble instead of enjoying sisterly bonding. But this time, Blackfire’s not even in the same universe! The Teen Titans will have to go undercover in a strange new version of Metropolis…and manage new secret identities!