Quoted directly from AFS Malaysia:

2 full scholarships are available to apply to Go Abroad with AFS to Costa Rica. Kay Hashim & Bien Mei Nien Scholarship named after two former AFS National Representatives will be awarded to 2 lucky students to go on AFS Exchange to Costa Rica for 1 year! Read the rest of this entry »

This is a program that I highly recommend. I myself went to the 5th China Synergy Program, and it is the best 3 weeks that I have ever experienced in my life.

It would be from 30th June to 16th July 2007, and the application deadline is on the 7th of January 2007. Do browse through the website, for more details.

This year, the trip will bring you to HK, Guangdong, Macao, Xian, Shanghai and Beijing. There is no application fee, and for those who are accepted, they are charging USD200 (RM760) as a token for your confirmation. This is to avoid those who sign up and fail to show up. Read the rest of this entry »

Living in a Buddhist temple in the hills of Murou one week and then in a super Westernized house with 3 flat screen TVs in Tokyo the week after. Meeting mayors and organizing events as part of your internship. Visiting a concentration camp in Erfurt and then having a discussion with people all over the world about ethical leadership – and having a German girl share the story of her grandparents during the Nazi times. Visiting the World Expo in Aichi and having roundtable talks with the top people of Hollywood. Read the rest of this entry »

Fancy living as a local in a foreign country? Just google “exchange programmes”, and within an approximation of 0.08 seconds, a list of about 3 million organisations providing such programmes appears en masse on your screen. Just a few famed international organisations amongst the many in Malaysia which cater to students interested in exchange programmes are Rotary International, Lions International and the American Field Service. Amongst its peer organisations, the American Field Service, is popular amongst Malaysians, evident in the number of Malaysian youths becoming a part of the AFS family which is exponentially growing from year to year.

So why the AFS? As its website quotes, it’s 50 years old, and is the oldest high school student exchange organisation, it’s only organisation to have been awarded the United Nations Testimonial Citation for services to youth and has the greatest diversity of programme lengths and destinations in the market. Read the rest of this entry »