I’m rye student from 23-24 Thank you so much for uploading this video. This literally makes me cry i love my people so much.

I came back to watch this after remembering it from my exchange year to France 2013/14 💜😭

i remeber watching this when i first started looking into exchange programs around 2 years ago and now i understand and relate to it. I leave France in just 5 days.

Hi! I watched that video and I think it’s awesome. I’m asking if I can put some of those things to my own video. I’m making video of my district for the last meeting. Thank you already

this video made me cry. already dreading the moment I'll have to leave my host country tbh

i haven’t even left for my exchange yet and i’m already crying

I'm really not looking forward to flying home. Just 1 month left

As an exchange student in Belgium who is leaving the country in just 12 days, this speaks to me so much. I really hope the return will go smoothly for me, but I can´t even imagine leaving this country...

I am an exchange student in Germany; my parents are supposed to come in two days and watching this video made me crying. I've realised I am still not ready to leave.

I'm exchange student in Japan. I'm going back to my home country tomorrow, and I started crying after this video. because this is so true. 😭

Nice 😭😭😭 I miss my best friends

I really want to be an exchange student but I know my partners would definitely not like it :(

Welcome to the real world, and please, please don't be sad: all of you will enjoy more. You just compared 2 different cultures from a multitude of it of the Earth. You are just beginning to enjoy your discoveries. You are now citizens of the world and you know that there is bad and good humans anywhere just with differents rules. I wish all of you the broadest outlook and consciousness.

The exchange student that came to my school (we hadn't had an exchange student come to our school before her which is why i say The rather than one of the) inspired me to try to become an exchange student. After doing a lot of research I chose Rotary Youth Exchange and the country Japan. That same exchange student who inspired me shared this video and I thought it was just perfect because of it being a Rotarian's video. I'm going on a short term exchange next summer and a long term exchange my jr. or sr. year.

I love this, ive been home from exchange now for 5 months

I returned from my exchange 9 months ago and omg I do miss being an exchange student. My last week was so hard,overall my exchange year,but I would not change anything. Being an exchange student changed me forever and I`m so glad to have been an exchange student. I miss my host country,host family and friends every single day.It is so weird to don`t feel a foreigner in a place anymore...so weird to don`t speak a different language and learn a new word everyday. To all the exchange students my advice is enjoy it the most you can,not matter how hard it is...you will only remember the good parts of it. ENJOY!!!

This is SO GOOD

I had to stop watching this before it ruined me completely I'm on exchange in Corsica France and I've only been here for a month but already fear going home even though I miss home so much

Really nice video!

one year ago, I first saw this video and I cried. That was the time I was leaving my host county. one year later, I watched this video again, and still, I can't help stop my tears. I just miss my host country so freaking much.

Bravo Kate!! Thank you for such an amazing representation of what we all feel about our exchange. Thank you for taking me through my own journey of preparing to return home from my own exchange. I'm forever grateful to Rotary for changing my life, and fortunate to have been living in my host country, after returning 21 years later. Well done! Josh Fields Japan 1983-84 from D 5100 USA

Hello Kate, I found this video when a great friend of mine (who I met in host country which was an exchange student as I am/was/used to be) showed it to me and I remeber how I felt when I listen tl it for the forst time which made me realized the real meaning of being an exchange student. The feeling of being somewhere but not knowing where you belong to. I've heard this amazingly truthful video hundreds of times and I still cry everytime I start looking back in time. And as memories bring tears to my eyes I reckon how deep this message takes place in my heart. I must tell you thank you for puting into words what not many can even explain. Thank you for letting me find a way of finally being able to explain how I feel... "Even though it's been a year." I still have yet to find my place somewhere in between this to worlds but it's always easier when you know you're not alone. Thank you Kate, thank you for making us believe in true love. Love, Ana.

Hi i'm from morocco i want to do an exchange is it possible ? do you have any mail ?

Conceal. Don't feel. LET IT GO *cries*

I love it. This video is amazing. I am not even in my hostcountry. But I can understand now how hard it will be to leave it! <3 Brazil

Beyond beautiful. <3

title of the song please

That was beautiful! I can only go for 6 weeks but I hope I have HALF the experience you seem to have had! Wow.

I'm crying now ... I'm supposed to leave my host country in 15 days :'(

It made me emotional.. It's just exactly how I feel. Every word is true. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video, you did an amazing job. I think every exchange student can relate to this.

goosebumps.

AMERICA 💜

I just love it.. It made me cry, this was written from bottom of heart. It speaks for everyone because this is the truth. Pure truth nothing else. And that's why it is so powerful... Amazing, great job!

i love this video. i came back home 6 months ago. i miss my host country so much. this video just shows what we all go threw when coming home

Hi! It's amazing I really want to go to exchange too but I have no experience. Can I ask you some questions about the programme? :)

I NEVER WANNA GO HOME...

wow, im crying... i miss my home so much right now, but when i think about leaving my new, second home on the other side of the world, and leave all those people here i love so much, that makes me even sader... :(

Wowwww that looks so exciting! I was a RYE same year as you. Sorry for the imperfect English but this makes me cry like a baby because I miss my exchange year so much. Some people said I should stop thinking about everything in Texas, btw I'm Thai went to Texas. Like.... I'm so sad cause no one understand what I'm thinking and miss. If you have a good exchange year (or the year of your life) you will understand me!! I miss everything, I know you know how it feels to leave the place that once you called it your home. And I don't have that much money to fly across the world to visit host families many times. I wish I can safe money to fly back there soon. :D

This was beautiful. I'm crying right now, and I've never been so inspired.

I'm leaving this year to start my exchange! This is so great, loved the video. I have a question, what month did you leave and come back for your exchange? Is it a certain month all students leave and come home? Or does it vary?

I haven't even gone to my country yet, and I feel how difficult it will be to leave it after living a new life there for just one year!

Where are you in France ? I'm an exchange student from France to Brasil. I may help you ! :)

Hi. I'm 17, I'm mexican, and I'm a exchange student. I arrived France 3 months ago. Now I understand what people meant with the first months being the hardest. I had problems with my limited knowledge of the language, which, I know is slowly improving. But I wonder, if the homesickness will ever stop. If I will be able to fully enjoy these before it ends. This is beacoming also into my world. It is and will be part of me forever, and it will be hard to leave it.

It's now 3 month ago but I still miss Canada so much !!

You know? Even it past like 3 months but I absolutly miss my host family in Texas everyday. I feel depressed even I meet my best friends. But everything just gone, one year past and it's gone forever. I wish I could replay the exchange year again and again. There were tears, smiles and eveything. RYE 2012-2013

Hi, I don't even know you, but your video just brought tears to my eyes. I'm also a Rotary Exchange Student on my exchange right now, and although our experiences are completely different, this video brought back so many memories from my exchange so far, and made me so excited for what's to come. So, thank you so much! Love a fellow exchange student, Emily 3

This makes me miss my exchange in the US so much. Your video gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes. Wonderful vid!

Thanks ! A lot ! You found words for my feelings...It's beautiful :)

I miss the exchange student we had from Germany, Antonio. He had all become our best friend and by the end of the year I actually forgot that he was from Germany. He became one of my best friends, I had told him everything that was going on in my life and he would help me get though it. It was like he had been my friend all a long. I miss my mate.. xx

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