ICES International Cultural Exchange Services - Henderson, Nevada

Szene -. A.

I was an Exchange Student 2007. It was an incredible year! Everything worked perfectly. With ICES, I was welcomed at the airport. Before school began, we had a meeting with all local exchange students and met our representative of ICES. She was very kind, told us about everything you need to know. Some exchange students sometimes cause some problems, but as far as I know, ICES solved these problems with every party involved. (We were 8 exchange students at one school) It's just great to have such a company working with students. I recommend applying with an ICES programs!

Marcio F.

Simply the best! There is a program for each student or host family.

Tik T.

I am currently an exchange student. My local coordinator only cares about her own city and not about the neighbor city, in which I am . She told us that she’d visit us guys at the football games et cetera, in the end she never did. Before all of us exchange students, at least my town, arrived, she made promises of taking us skiing and everything, which she never maintained. She did host a couple meetings, but always prioritized the student in her own town and told us we’d do so much. She writes us once in a while for the necessary monthly report, for which we have to answer a couple questions, that’s it. The questions are basic, and even if there is something, she won’t notice. She also does not help us solve problems here at school, but said she’d come here but then also moved it back every week, by then it was too late, I don’t even know if she ever came here at all.
Moreover, every exchange student in my town got the option to take as many classes as needed to graduate, I wasn’t offered that. I got put as a sophomore, while juniors got to be seniors because of the ACT’s, even though no one of exchange students has to take them since they are standardized tests. I wasn’t moved up, even though in the end, I almost had to take on of the standardized test too, and yes, it would have been possible. Unfortunately, my LC did not put in the work to try to make it happen for me.
This means, that I am the only one who doesn’t get any privileges, while everyone else does, which ( understandable) frustrates me. Those privileges include prom, senior nights and more stuff. If I had known this, I wouldn’t have come.
We are also not allowed to drive, which usually wouldn’t be that bad, but we’re living 20+ Minutes away from the next big town, which for us is very inconvenient because we have to rely on friends to drive us there, but they don’t have time often between work and school. That results on us having to stay home, because our town doesn’t offer much of anything.
Before someone thinks, you have to make it your best time, I tried, I really did. After a time, you just lose motivation and accept the fact to stay at home and be on your phone the entire time.

Emilia F.