btw, the list is great! congrats!

Here is one more link that may be of your interest: http://blog.afs.de
It is a blog from AFS Germany with posts by AFS students who are living in many different countries around the world.

Hope you enjoy it!

Thank you for contacting us. We recommend you take a look at these links:

http://www.afsusa.org/student-exchange-blog/ – This a blog by AFS USA where you can find stories from many students who are abroad with AFS

http://www.afs.org.nz/ – In the website of AFS New Zealand you can find feeds from student’s blogs, and links to these blogs

http://www.afs.nl/Wereldwerk/ervaringsverhalen/blogs/ – Here you can find a list of blogs by AFS students from The Netherlands (although they are most probably not in English)

http://www.afsvlaanderen.be/Blogs-links.linkcollectie+M504de74fa19.0.html?&tx_ablinklist_pi1action=getviewcategory&tx_ablinklist_pi1category_uid=10&tx_ablinklist_pi1cid=6611 – Here you will find an extensive list of blogs from AFS students from Belgium Flanders in many different parts of the world (also not likely to be in English)

http://cn.afs.hk/afs-blog/ – Here you will find a list of blogs by AFS students from Hong Kong (many of them are not in English)

We hope this helps, and in case you are willing to share with us the outcomes of your essay, we would be very interested in it.

I myself did an AFS student exchange 21 years ago, at the age of 16 and I found it wonderful year, maybe the best year of my life.
I am currently writing a university essay on an AFS Student Exchange and need to find information sources to research for my story.
I feel inspired to create fictional events and characters, and so researching blogs would assist me in creating characters with integrity.

Any assistance greatly appreciated!!!

Thank you

Patrick Rothfuss’ “The Wise Man’s Fear”
(the second part in a fantasy series where the protagonist spends a lot of time living in another culture and slowly getting to know it)

Ekaterina Sedia’s “The House of Discarded Dreams”
(Also a fantasy novel about a young African-American woman who struggles with her Zimbabwean immigrant parents/heritage and tries to find her own identity)