ASSE-International NEWS

Attention Students & Host Families!

As you reflect on the exchange year, we suspect that during the past year, you have had some fun and memorable photos or videos taken at home, school, social activities, events, sports, trips, etc. If so, and you would like to share them with us, we would like to consider putting them up on our website or maybe in our brochures (for all the world to see). They do not have to be professional shots. To the contrary, spontaneous and informal photos are sometimes the very best (and most fun or engaging) photos to see.

If you have some good shots from this past year that you would like to share with us, we would be most grateful if you could send them to bodil@asse.com or bodil@world-heritage.org. The photo quality (clarity) should be good but, other than that, no photo is too silly or unsuitable. Just send us pictures of your best memories and we will be happy to receive them.

Many thanks for your help!

Amazing Exchange Experiences

Norway by Duane Karl Myklejord, ASSE Exchange Student from Fosston, Minnesota USA spending his exchange year in Norway

Austral ia by Collin Curtis, ASSE Exchange Student from Lake Dallas, Texas USA spending his exchange semester on Flinders Island, Australia

China by Susan Elliott, ASSE Exchange Student from Katy, Texas USA spending her exchange year in China


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ASSE Photo Gallery

ASSE is very grateful to receive so many photos from around the ASSE world! Enjoy the following examples of all of the fun!


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Dreams Exist to be Realized

Des rêves existent pour devenir la réalité
Depuis deux ans je me dis toujours que bientôt, bientôt je le ferai, je courrai un Demi- Marathon.

Je ne sais pas quoi, mais il y avait toujours quelque chose qui me faisait hésiter, qui m'empêchait de le faire.

Dreams exist to be realized
Since 2 years I'm thinking "Soon, soon you will make it, you will run a Half Marathon".

I really don't know why, but there was always something that made me hesitate, something that kept me from doing it.

ASSE Outbound Scholarship Recipients for 2012-13 Program Year!



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ASSE is very happy to announce the ASSE Outbound Scholarship Recipients for 2012-13 Program Year! All of us at ASSE are very proud of our Outbound program - with good reason!

• ASSE's Outbound Program is one of the largest - that is because we are dedicated to helping American High School Students go abroad!

• ASSE's Outbound Students get to choose their destination country - other programs tell the students where they can go!

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ASSE Alumni Corner

When Kayla Foster, ASSE CBYX alum 2006-07, applied for the Congress-Bundestag scholarship about 6 years ago, she thought this was a great opportunity to learn a second language. After spending a school year in Hamburg with the U.S. State Department sponsored CBYX (Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange) scholarship program and 2 additional semesters of German studies in Freiburg, Germany through a college exchange, she realizes how much more

Saludos de ASSE MEXICO! Greetings from ASSE MEXICO!

ASSE Mexico Director Lucia Mora and Ana Munoz, Assistant to the Director work diligently to give ASSE Mexican exchange students the opportunity to experience a new corner of the world as well as welcome ASSE exchange students to learn about Mexico first hand!

Lucia Mora, ASSE Mexico Director says, "I have the opportunity to appreciate other cultures, help adolescents make their dream come true and become successful adults. When they go to another country, they can teach others our culture and our traditions"

Meet Thailand! Hana's Story

My name is Hana or Pojnicha Panturaks. I'm from Nonthaburi, Thailand, which is close to Bangkok. I'm living with my host family Steve and Barbara Hurst in Wichita, Kansas, USA. While studying in Thailand, my girlfriend took a test to become an exchange student in Europe and that is what made me want to do this. She came back with lots of things, she got a lot of experiences from where she went. She now has friends from a different country and they exchanged their cultures. Especially, she got new languages from this opportunity. That is the reason why I became an exchange student.

"Thanks, I am so Happy!"

Daler Kaziev, ASSE Exchange Student (FLEX Tajikistan) found a welcoming second home in Grovetown, GA with his host family Barbara and Bob Witt and their 2 sons.

Planting for the Future

Vernonia, Oregon USA is a small community west of Portland. Last fall, three young women representing the U.S. State Department sponsored Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) came to Vernonia to experience life in the United States. Ana Scerbatii, ASSE FLEX Exchange Student from Moldova, Yaroslava Denysenko, ASSE FLEX Exchange Student from Ukraine and Zhuldyz Zhunusova, ASSE FLEX Exchange Student from Kazakhstan enjoyed becoming part of the school life of Vernonia High School.

Light! Camera! Action!

As a young adult, the search for a future career is very exciting. Finding out what you would like to earn your money with can be a tough question. But not for Yannick Hoerner, ASSE Exchange Student (Germany), living with the Smith/Amrhein Family and his host sister Lucie Lerat, ASSE Exchange Student (France), in Flint, Michigan, USA. His dream is to become a TV show host or a news anchor and he has made valuable experience in the TV business through internships already. So, when his local ASSE representative Nina Muckenthaler approached him asking if he would like to host a local TV show, he grasped his chance.

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