Educational Advising Center

US High School Students Visit the Fulbright Educational Advising Center

On Friday April 14 the Fulbright Educational Advising Center hosted a group of ten high school students and three of their teachers from Hingham High School in the Boston area. Romanian teenagers who visit our Center for counseling on admission to US study looked forward to meeting the US students and to sharing opinions on what it is like to be a high school student in the US and in Romania.

The US students were traveling to Romania in their spring holiday and before coming to the Fulbright Center they had been on a tour of Bucharest and had also attended the Spring Fair at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant. It was a good opportunity for them to learn about spring customs in Romania and to get traditional souvenirs that would remind them of their first visit to Romania.

In a very active discussion, the Romanian teenagers were eager to learn about the life, both academic and extracurricular, of American high school students, while American students wanted to find out why Romanians would like to study in the US. Then followed questions about activities and interests, ways of spending free time, stages in which each of them was in their application process to US universities etc.

It was a heart- and mind-opening experience and this picture can hardly capture how lively and interesting the discussion was. One hour was not enough to cover all the details students would have liked to find out from their peers, therefore the American students made a list with their e-mail addresses that we later sent to Romanian participants so that they all keep in touch.

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