A warm host family on exchange? No, sleeping in basement with mice and hardly any fresh food: “had to pay 7,000 euros extra for a better stay”

After secondary exchange in a distant country: for many young people it is a dream. But what if that foreign experience starts as a nightmare? Nathan (20) paid 15,000 euros to travel organization Education First (EF), but was anything but in a warm host family. “I didn’t feel welcome at all. And on the basement where I had to sleep, mice walked around. ” Also Emma (18) and Jordan (24) look back with mixed feelings. “After a month my host parents suddenly put me at the door.”

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