Question mark

To you who have an interview with an exchange organization in front of you, I hope you’ll find this blog post helpful in some way.     

When you apply for a year abroad with an organization there’s a formula you’ll have to fill in with questions about yourself.  It is questions about everything from hair color and height to brothers and sisters, what you like to do on your spare time and how many hours you spend in front of the computer everyday. What languages do you speak and how late are you allowed to be out on weekdays. The questions at the interview were for me quite similar.

·      Have you been to another country before?

·      Why do you want to be an exchange student?

·      Why did you choose the U.S.A.?

·      What do you want to learn from your year abroad?

·      What can you contribute with?

·      What will you do if you get homesick?

·      How do you feel about coming to a host family that isn’t a nuclear family?

·      How do you feel about host brothers and sisters?

·      Where in the U.S.A. would you rather not like to come and live?

More personal questions:

·      What do you like to do on your spare time?

·      What’s your favorite subject in school?

·      Do you have any part time jobs?

·      Will you contribute to the trip economically?

·      Are you a saver or spender with your money?

·      Describe yourself with 3 positive words and 3 negative words.  

Questions about family:

·      How many times a week do you eat dinner the whole family together?

·      Does your parents help you with your homework?

·      Do you and your brother fight a lot?

·      Do you help with the daily occupations at home?

That’s the questions I remember, but I hope it will give you a hint about how my interview was and how your might look like. I’m sure it depends a lot on what organization you are going with too. I am going with an organization called STS, which is the same organization my dad went with 30 years ago.