Extremely Useful and Cool
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We add new, cool/free services all the time so check back often!
I'm a current, or future exchange student, how can these services
help me?
So, you're going to to be an exchange student, now what?? We're
glad you asked! Well, the first thing you might want to do is secure
your TRAVEL arrangments. You can do this right from
our site, and at the best rates anywhere! Then, we suggest that you read
a bit about the country you'll be traveling to. Check out our BOOK SEARCH so you can order some reading material (by
the way, you can also order music CDs here too!). Then, why not
learn EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR DESTINATION on-line?
Next, we recommend you use our CITY SEARCH to find
out what's "going on" around your new home. If you can't find the
specific town you'll be going to, try our multiple SEARCH
ENGINE. You can also find your new town/city's NEWSPAPER online to find out more. This is
also great for you to "check up" on what's going on back home while you're
away. What should you wear? Take a quck look at you new home
town's WEATHER. Now, how about money issues?
Use our MONEY CONVERTER to find out how much
of that "funny" foreign currency your own will buy. Having trouble
reading some of what you are reading, or certain Websites? Check
out this ONLINE LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR
And don't forget, a common, and innocent hand gesture in your country may
mean something totally different in another country. Check out WORLD HAND GESTURES before you embarsass yourself, or
someone else!.
Before you leave your country, don't forget to buy those COMPACT DISCS from your favorite artists for the journey.
When you settle in and become fond of a group you heard while on program,
use our CDNOW search box to buy it and then take it home with you.
Next thing you'll need to do is secure a pre-paid CALLING
CARD so you can keep in touch with your friends and family from wherever
you exchange to. After you arrive, if your host family has a computer,
or if you'll have access to a computer elsewhere, remember to get a FREE
EMAIL account right here at StudentExchange.net so
your friends and family can Email you. Once you're settled in, go
and look for your friends Email, or physical address using our PEOPLE FINDER service. So you don't forget
your friends and family members special days, or even to remember to write
to them, use our REMINDER SERVICE which will Email
you YOUR reminders in advance. After you've been reminded, use our GREETING CARD service to send/receive electronic
greeting cards. Miss home? Getting to see a LIVE VIEW
of a city in your home country may help. You can even have your family stand
in the camera's view and see them live! How about allowing your friends
and family back home to experience your journey with you? Just use this
TRIP JOURNAL to log in your daily activities / experiences.
If you're exchanging to the United States, we have a few more goodies for
you. How about getting your own private FAX NUMBER
which lets you access your Faxes via email. This is great for your
friends/relatives back home who don't have the Internet, but can access
a Fax machine. Don't want to be late, or forget something important
to do, have MR. WAKEUP call your telephone and wake/remind
you in your own voice! Want to help your host mother? Hook her
up with NETGROCER, an on-line food shopping service.
She'll thank you big time!
You
can book just about any type of travel right from here and at the best
rates offered on the internet.
Click on the banner below and start saving today!
Here
you will find the absolute best prices for your calling needs, domestic
or international. Your pre-paid calling card is good for calls from any
country to any country at the lowest rates anywhere. Your new calling card
can be printed immediately for use! Just use a credit card to order. Don't
leave home without one of these!
Click on the banner below and start calling your friends and family!
While on program, let your family and friends "share"
your experience through your own personal travel journal! Click on the link below.
We're
proud to be an "associate" of Amazon.com! They're not just books
anymore, shop for videos, electronics, and even toys! Feel free to use
the search box below to start your shopping.
Think
it would help to become a bit more familiar with the country you'll be
exchanging to (Anywhere in the world)? Click on the "Geographic.org" logo
below. You'll be amazed at how much you're going to learn!
Into
music? There's no better place, or easier way to buy those new CDs. Use
the box below to search for YOUR favorite CD and then order it right from
here!
Enjoy
using our very own CURRENCY CONVERTER
right from here for FREE! Just click on the rotating $ sign below.
Can't
understand an email, or even a website because it's in a different language?
Try this popular FREE on-line translator from Alta Vista. It converts to/from
ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, ITALIAN, PORTUGUESE and SPANISH! Just click on
the open book below.
So..
after applying to be an exchange student, you finally find out where you're
going to be placed. Why not check out the territory before you go for
FREE, right from here? Cities from all over the world are just a few mouse
clicks away. Just click on the Fodors.com Logo below to begin.
Now
that you've taken a closer look at the city/town you'll be living in as
an exchange student using the cool service right above this one, why not
take a look at what that city's newspaper has to tell you about what's going
on? Click on the Media-Link logo below, and start becoming a "citizen" of
you new community! This FREE site offers newspapers, magazines and television
for cities around the globe.
Going
to be living somewhere else, you might need to know the weather, right?
Just enter the city, state, zip code or country name below for where you
want to find out the current weather, and Wunderground.com will answer your
question for FREE
Now
you can design, and send your own FREE Electronic Greeting Cards right
from our site! ENJOY!
Send
a Card
View
a Card
BennettUSA FREE
Reminder Service - This convenient BennettUSA
feature is yours without charge to help remind you of those important dates
in YOUR life! Your reminders are Emailed directly to YOUR inbox!
If
you have trouble getting up with an alarm clock, or if you tend to forget
things and need a more pro-active reminder service than the one above,
check out this extremely cool service. If you have your own phone, you
can have Mr. Wakeup call you, at any time you set, to give to any reminder/wake-up
message YOU record. (Only good for U.S. & Canadian phone numbers)
Click on the Mr. Wakeup Logo below.
Search the entire United
States for anyone's address. Plan routes, draw maps of any U.S. travel
destination.
Find anyone's email address, anywhere in the world all for FREE!
Search the entire net for
WebSites that stir your interest using the power of multiple search engines
at once.
To use this FREE service, click on the ProFusion logo below!
A must have for every exchange
student, your very own FREE FOR LIFE Email address that's accessible from
any computer with internet access! Click on the logo below.
What's the hottest movie
out? Which theater closest to you is it showing at? This FREE service lets
you search, by zip code, for theaters in YOUR immediate area! (sorry, United
States Only). Click on the "Citysearch.com" logo below.
Dread having to go to
the supermarket? NetGrocer alliviates this chore by allowing you to shop
for food right from your computer. Your non-perishable order is shipped via
Fed-Ex (United States Only). Click below!
Don't have a FAX machine, but
do have an email account? If so, now you DO have a FAX machine and it's
FREE!!.
An incredible collection
of webcams from all over the world. Take a preview of the closest big city
to where you'll be living as an exchange student, or if while on program
you miss the sites from home and need to see something familiar, this is
a grest place to come! I've heard many stories from students who have had
their parents back home stand by a webcam so they could see them. Just click
on the long-necked webcam below!
