Where's the best place to study abroad?

I want to study abroad my senior year in high school. I'm only a freshmen now, but I've been told by my guidance councler I should start planning now. I've been thinking about studying in Ireland...but I'm having second thoughts. I want to go somewhere that has a lot of history- interesting history, easy to get around...meet people and stuff, and also a place where everyone speaks english...thanks for your help!

Where's the best place to study abroad?
jordan is a great place
Reply:This is a very personal thing, if you are spending a year somewhere you need to think about whether you would enjoy it and whether it would be productive. I would reccommend England because the standard of education is high and because of the history. Everywhere has a lot of history remember, think about what kind of history you are interested in...Medieval? Prehistoric? Again England is easy to get around, there is also a wide variety of places to go. For a small country we have a huge variety of cultures, North and South, coast or inland, peak or lake district.





Has anyone else at your school taken a year abroad that you could get in contact with? Get some tips? Do some research and find out about costs as well, some places will be more expensive too. Good luck!





I would also point out that St. Andrews is in Scotland and is nice but has no nightlife and a majority university student population. London is great but can be kinda dangerous and if you aren't used to cities may be a bit much at first. Also, it is a myth that most people in Europe speak English, maybe in the major cities you can get by, but you certainly need to be prepared to use or learn the local language to get the best out of your experience.
Reply:I think London is the best place...it's beautiful, full of history, has great colleges, is easy to navigate, etc. A lot of the colleges in Ireland that are very good are kind of in the middle of nowhere (ie. St. Andrews)


Keep in mind that most people speak English in other countries, especially in Europe. Rome is a fabulous place to go, and the majority of people know English.
Reply:One of the cool website on study abroad programs that I was came across, hopefully may help you :





http://summer-study-abroad-program.blogs...
Reply:Why don't you wait until after High School. You have to grow up and if you go in college it will actually mean something. Goto Saudi..
Reply:i tried to study a broad once but i got slapped
Reply:While there's nothing wrong with studying abroad in a country that speaks English, I strongly suggest that you at least consider doing an exchange in a non-English speaking country. I was really scared to do an exchange in Ecuador, where they speak Spanish, but everything worked out fine and I am so glad that I learned Spanish! I went on to major in Spanish in college, and now I use Spanish at work. I am going to be starting law school in the fall, and I hope to become an immigration attorney so I can use my Spanish. There are so many reasons to learn another language, and living abroad is absolutely the best way to learn one. Sure, you can take classes at home, but you will learn the language faster and retain it for a longer time if you're surrounded by it for a year.





I'm wondering why you want to study abroad your senior year. Some people do their exchange during their senior year, but you will miss out on a lot of high school things by going your senior year, such as prom and graduating with your class. I went the year after high school, and that ended up working well for me because my high school wouldn't give me credit for studying abroad, so I would have had to repeat a year of high school, which I really didn't want to do.





Check out AFS, YFU and Rotary programs for more information on where you can go and what being an exchange student is like. They're all great programs.





AFS: http://www.afs.org


YFU: http://www.yfu.org


Rotary: http://www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYout...





I wish I could trade places with you -- my year abroad was the best year of my life and I wish that I could do it again!
Reply:u want to study a abroad? me too!


im also a freshman.


i want to go to either paris, scotland, seville, madrid or barcelona...maybe italy.


but i traveled to spain over break and its history in seville aka sevilla was amazing! and i met a guy who studyed abroad there and he loved it. so try that. and it really depedns wat u want to be.


i want to be an artist so i want to try france.





good luck and i hope i helped!





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