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Foreign exchange student to Japan?

  • My name is Richard Paul McDowelI I live in Meridian Mississppi and attend Northwest Jr. High I am 16 years of age. I (who lives in the United States of America) wish to do a foreign exchange to Tokyo Japan. I want this with all my heart. I have wanted it since i was very young. Though i have forgotten my first reason to want to go to Japan, I still want to with my all my heart. I am in the 9th grade. I havent all ways made good grades until I started the 9th grade. But now I am doing very good. I am also learning how to speak Japanese. I havent started on writing yet. Now for the question. I dont know alot about how foreign exhchange works. I want it by the 11th grade if possible but no later than the 12th grade for thats the end of high school. I need to know how I can be a foreign exchange student and how it works and what I need to do. I have another problem. If i am able to do it, I have to be with a japanese family who are Jehovah Witnesses. Can any one help me?

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    TokyoE is really lucky, where I live there are not only many Jehovah Witnesses, but they hang around school, and visit home on regular basis. I think you just have to contact your church and then ask them to help you getting in touch with the Japanese church.I think they might be able to arrange something, even for short term like 2 weeks or a month...There are many foreigners among them, and some often go abroad, and speak good English, much better than the average Japanese. I'm sure they can figure out a way to help you, if you so much want to be with your church and to be in Japan.

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Usually exchange programs are setup by the your school and a school in Japan. That is hard enough, unfortunately you also have the added "Jehovah Witnesses" item to your list. Which makes it nearly impossible then for you. There are virtually no Jehovah Witnesses's in Japan, look at the statistics. This should be no suprise if you do your research Christianity is not a major religion in Japan. On part of a foreign exchange program is to LEARN and EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT language, culture, religion etc. not that you will convert to another religion, and no one will force you, at the same time you should not come over to learn about Japanese culture and try to convert other people's relgions as well. So back to the main point, exchange programs are usually set up with the school. If your school does not do an exchange program then you would most likely have to wait until after high school.

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I didn't know study abroad was available for high school students but apparently it is because I've heard one of my friends did that in her high school. I know a little bit about the college program but clueless about the high school one. Maybe you can talk to your school counselor. And there are some legitimate websites, one of them is studyabroad.com, you can create a profile there and ask questions.

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