Children? Let's go!.

+ Child + Study Abroad? But yes, said Julia, Mandy, Birgit and Karl Alexander and Judith. The young parents were living with their academic small families in the U.S. and the Czech Republic, Honduras and Australia - and reveal what is in the stranger went well and what went wrong.

 

Julia is studying history and Latin in Heidelberg. She spent with her daughter Maya semester abroad in Virginia in the United States.

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Maya learned in the U.S., the ABC. My kindergarten was more of a preschool

Sometimes Maya says something like: "Oh no, the ball is flown in the Fence," she says while the fence a few meters further. Since we were in America, they used the English words, if you're not the German mind. I read at Sweet Briar College, studied - and worked as an assistant teacher. Otherwise I would have hoped that even can not afford.

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Four hours per week and I had to teach once a week a German Stammtisch organize. That we could live and eat for free, the tuition fees fell in the wake of the exchange program with my home university in Heidelberg away. The seminars in the U.S. were below the level that I used was from Germany. But the many homework with a fixed deadline was still stressful. But the professors were great and have helped where they could.

If something I could not do, they were understanding. Overall, the organization also no more difficult than at home. Maya was four and attended the Campus School, the American equivalent of kindergarten.

It has a little time, until they had become accustomed. Initially, she misses her Heidelberger kindergarten, simply because they played much more. In America is also the nursery school. One learns in the figures, the ABC and the days of the week.

Once a week was a music teacher in the school campus over to read notes and harmonies to teach. Such a nursery place is more expensive than in Germany, around $ 350 I had to pay with foreign-funded student loans. Maya was bothered that it is no longer allowed to make independently. She was always so shocked that their continuous help someone wanted to, although they were all alone. With the language, she had no problems, they needed less than three months in order to speak English fluently. Meanwhile, it can be better than me.

Here in Germany it is now also available in an English kindergarten. We lived on campus in a small house with two other exchange students together. My fellow loved to play with Maya, and even times the child correctly rauszulassen. But sometimes it was boring, because up to the nearest town was ten miles, and if someone with a car drove into the city, I could not just "here" scream, I had still Maya. If I would do again, then I would perhaps afford a babysitter more often to the limited freedom somewhat offset.