Those scary feelings of being a newcomer, however, would be the best experience of your life. You'll change so fast, meet many interesting friends, and you'll know how strong you are. It's a time where you taste living independently for the first time.

You'll get to speak out. You'll get to express yourself. And most importantly you're not going just to exist, you're going to live. Because, before you know it, graduation is here. It's time to leave. And you'll stressed out how a year full of memories, mementos, photos, and clothes will fit into your suitcase.

With so many memories to share the first person who would understand the most is your fellow exchange student friend. Here's to all exchange students from around the world. This is for you.

1. Your first day of school is about memorizing your class schedule

2. You'll spend a lot of time smiling and saying Hi to your classmates

3. You'll get excited when someone knows the location of your country on a map

4. Your first friend is another exchange student. Yes, that's you!

5. Your dream becomes bilingual

6. Everyone who said "hi" to you is your new friend. Because you don't really have any yet.

7. You're used to answering "Where are you coming from" and sometimes make up a new country name!

8. You'll walk around the school during lunch break so people would see that you have something to do

9. You'll be so happy when experiencing the first snow, the early Thanksgiving dinner, the first Christmas, and many other firsts.

10. When you do something differently and people start to look at you funnily, your excuse is "That's how we do it in my country" even if it wasn't.

11. You'll match your clothes with the brand your friends at school were wearing so you don't look like a foreigner

12. You'll start to forget how to speak in your own language

13. You'll add your country name when you introduce yourself

14. People's stares don't bother you anymore

15. You'll get frustrated doing homework in another language the first week. And the rest, you're getting all the A's

16. You'll sign up as many extra activities as you can

17. How loud your scream was, when your school friend invites you to hang out after school or on a weekend

18. You never sure if someone's being your friend or just flirting with you

19. You kinda get the hype of your host country sports mascot and watch it live

20. You'll use to comments like, "So you're from [country], do you live on trees? "Is there running water?" or any silly questions

21. You'll freak out on where to sit in the cafeteria during lunch break

22. You'll attend all the local festival or celebration in your host country

23. You feel awkward in a big family dinner.