Student 1 (boy from Spain): Hello, I'm Jaime Dongil. I'm from Madrid, the capital of my country and I'm from Bowsher High School. I think like the first thing I realised here... like the first difference when I came here in the airport... it was like when you meet someone in my country you give them two kisses on both cheeks and here it's like weird. The girls get super-shy when you kiss them or something, and it was embarrassing for me too.

Student 2 (boy from Germany): I was surprised that everything here is so big. When I went to Walmart... I've never seen a store like that before. In Germany we have a mall and maybe the entire mall is as big as Walmart here. And also food and restaurants... the portions are so big. We don't have that in Germany. You can eat up your plate and then you are full, but here I can't even finish my plate half way sometimes.

Student 3 (girl from New Zealand): Some differences from America to New Zealand is we drive on the other side of the road and we are on the other side of the car, so it was kind of scary coming here and driving on the other side of the road and seeing cars coming towards me on the wrong side of the road. So weird! And everything here has peanut butter in it like there is peanut butter in crackers, biscuits and chocolate, ice cream. Peanut butter is in everything.

Student 4 (boy from Norway): One thing that is different is basically the school spirit and how you guys have a lot of school spirit, whereas in Norway... well, we don't really have any. Our school is somewhere you go, you meet your friends, you learn things and that's about it. If you want to do sports, you have to go to a private organization and we don't have any cheerleaders or any pep rallies or any school spirit like that at all. So that's a couple of things (...) was cool about coming over here.

Student 2 again (boy from Germany): When I knew about measurements that you have inch instead of centimetres and stuff, but I thought it wasn't that big of a deal... but there's a lot more differences about the measuring system, for example litres and ounces. It's still hard for me to convert because I've been so used to litres, kilos and everything like that. Or even temperature, Fahrenheit. I was surprised when my mum said "Wow, it's 80 degrees outside", because in Germany that would be like boiling water almost.