It won't be very long but I really HAVE to write that, it's just so shocking and sad and also makes me kinda angry.
Good this time my blog will be my thoughts about EF (the organisation I'm going on exchange).
First of all I personally really thought EF is a very good Organisation. To me it is/was this way because they treated me well, look after me, help me when I need help, are calling me every month to find out how I am and so on, they really give me lots of information and I got a lot of material to get prepared before my exchange.
First of all I personally really thought EF is a very good Organisation. To me it is/was this way because they treated me well, look after me, help me when I need help, are calling me every month to find out how I am and so on, they really give me lots of information and I got a lot of material to get prepared before my exchange.
They had such a good impact on me that it didn't change a bit when I got my hostfamily so late, although I really got desperate and mad when I waited. At EF, at America, at everybody who's involved in getting a family for me. But when i finally got my family all this feelings were washed away I was so happy and kinda forgot what I've experienced so far. And my mind about EF didn't change until,, I don't really know maybe this week i think I'm still developing what to think. Well I really like my family I think it's really the perfect match for me and I really don't wanna leave but there are obviously people who would give anything to get outta here if they could without feeling like "I have to do that I payed so much!"
I just write down the things I've heard in the last few days that are really disturbing. First of all all the exchange students wh are in the USA right now. Some of them are really unhappy and I can so understand their problems I mean when yoour family is weird or rude or just the opposite of your character and just NOT MATCHING living for months with them must be hell. You have to spend every day with them and if you're not happy with them everyday is just one step closer to leaving. Nobody should spend their exchange year like that. So but what about EF do you think? Yes they could just take the unhappy students and place the somewhere else- problem would be solved. I thought that it would work this way. When you're unhappy you call them tell them your problem and in the most cases it's really a fundamental problem that is not so easy to put up with. Especially not when you have to spend months with them. People like to escape their problems and that what I thought EF would notice. But evidently EF is not the perfect-and-good-mooded-perfect-organised-caring-lovely organisation as I thought they would be. In the last few days there are more stories coming up that EF doesn't help very much when you really don't fit in your family and really doesn't care about your wishes to change. Changing families when you're not happy is evidently not really in the mind of the EF people. They talk a lot but don't really DO anything and don relly believe the person the most involved in the misery: the students. I've heard that people leave early just to get away.
I just write down the things I've heard in the last few days that are really disturbing. First of all all the exchange students wh are in the USA right now. Some of them are really unhappy and I can so understand their problems I mean when yoour family is weird or rude or just the opposite of your character and just NOT MATCHING living for months with them must be hell. You have to spend every day with them and if you're not happy with them everyday is just one step closer to leaving. Nobody should spend their exchange year like that. So but what about EF do you think? Yes they could just take the unhappy students and place the somewhere else- problem would be solved. I thought that it would work this way. When you're unhappy you call them tell them your problem and in the most cases it's really a fundamental problem that is not so easy to put up with. Especially not when you have to spend months with them. People like to escape their problems and that what I thought EF would notice. But evidently EF is not the perfect-and-good-mooded-perfect-organised-caring-lovely organisation as I thought they would be. In the last few days there are more stories coming up that EF doesn't help very much when you really don't fit in your family and really doesn't care about your wishes to change. Changing families when you're not happy is evidently not really in the mind of the EF people. They talk a lot but don't really DO anything and don relly believe the person the most involved in the misery: the students. I've heard that people leave early just to get away.
And talking to students who managed to change their family, you get a similar picture: a crabby, not really caring and greedy organisation. That makes me seriously think that something must be really wrong there.
And obviously not even the people already IN the USA are noticing that is seems that also people leaving in summer think that something is not right. I've heard about stories from them that they called EF and they're been told awful things and that some of them got a family who only wanted to get a student to make money, things that are in contrast to the things everybody expects/believes,.... and also that EF sends them some advertising stuff to advertise the organisation. Lots and lots of stuff. I think that's kinda rude to use the students to make them more famous. In my opinion you should ask if you want to do that because I don't know that shines a strange light on EF.
Well but as I said before I personally didn't have problems at all, but that may be because I'm so freaking lucky to have no problems. I think when you have serious problems, you get that. That's awful nobody should be unhappy at their exchange. It should be the best time in your life like mine is.
I'm so sorry for all those people who are going through that hell on earth, if really all of that is true, EF has some serious problems.
k I'm enjoying myself (think I feel kinda depressed at the moment because of that all) and I hope in my next post I can tell you the things I did on easter.....
Well but as I said before I personally didn't have problems at all, but that may be because I'm so freaking lucky to have no problems. I think when you have serious problems, you get that. That's awful nobody should be unhappy at their exchange. It should be the best time in your life like mine is.
I'm so sorry for all those people who are going through that hell on earth, if really all of that is true, EF has some serious problems.
k I'm enjoying myself (think I feel kinda depressed at the moment because of that all) and I hope in my next post I can tell you the things I did on easter.....
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