One important thing while studying abroad is to make some friends. Your friends and you can have a blast if you know how to use the resources that a place where you are studying abroad offers you. Many articles say that when studying abroad students should not just spend weekends on trains and travel. Studying abroad is about breaking out and learning about culture. If you escape from the place every weekend, then you will never be able to do so.
If you stay over the weekend, you can learn about your host family's life over the weekend when they are not working. I can tell that it is very important from my own experience. I have traveled maybe two weekends and the rest I spent with my host family, I have seen, for example, that my host family likes to go to the cinema or theater over the weekend. If it is nice outside, we would all be in the garden reading books or studying for the next week.
It also depends oh how open your host family is. Some host families accept students like somebody who is part of their family, while the others like to have some distance. It is important to remember that every beginning is hard. It takes a while til you and your host family become completely open to each other. It is also important that one engages him/herself into their lives and understands the cultural differences. Sometimes it might take longer than you would expect, but that is why we all study abroad; to learn something new and to expand our skills on solving problems.
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