How is life for an exchange high school student is south africa?

How is life for an exchange high school student is south africa?
I'm 18 years old and from the Netherlands, in my last year in high school. Next school year I would like to participate in an high school exchange program for South Africa with AFS. I would like to know from the South African (exchange) high scholars how the high school life is and the way of living in South Africa. Also I heard a lot about crimes being committed to white people and that the crime rate in general is very high, can some please tell more about this. Thanks for helping
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Good day, i was a exchange student to germany from south africa some 15 years ago and i will tell you this. You do not have to worry so much about crime because you will be placed with a well off family which will look after your security needs. I do not know how school is these days but be sure it will be a very different experience for you, for starters everybody wears school uniforms and there are a lot of rules so it will be surprising for you. Your family will most likely take you on some nice trips. Give it a go if you are interested in a different cultures and so on.
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we had exchange students at my school coming from England , Scotland and Germany ...obviously there is a big change in the lifestyle here but the exchange students do have a lot of FUN! i think u should definitely come. it's a life changing experience! Crime is high but you do get crime in alll countries you just have to be careful
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Life in South Africa is very short if you are White.Read Adrianna Stuijt at http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/ She is a Dutch Journalist who for many years worked on South Africa's biggest Newspapers and now exposes the truth about the hellhole.
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I think u came and asked in the wrong website. Most of the ppl here have a negative attitude towards their country, but anyway. SA high schools are fun. My friend had an exchange student placed in her home. She isn't well off, just middleclass. She went to a nearby mixed medium school (English and Afrikaans). The school went to events like landsdiens (kinda like a camp) and interhighs (an athletics event where all the town's high schools compete and the school's cheerleaders do themed routines). Some schools (usually all boy/all girl) schools have socials where boys or girls from other schools come for a dance, some of the boys from my school were invited to Oprah Winfrey's school's social. Some SA schools are cliquey, but most aren't because everyone dresses the same and all, but kids like having friends that are the same colour as them or who like the same type of music as them. The coursework is in most subjects is mostly South African and about our people. We have 4 school terms and holidays that are a few weeks long each. December holidays are usually the longest. We write cycle tests in term 1 and 3 and exams in term 2 and term 4. We have rcl elections where we vote for a school president, secretary, p.r.o. etc. In some schools girls can't be president or smart kids are the only ones allowed to run for the rcl or the elections are open. Some schools have major discipline problems like bullies, gangs, drugs, fighting, bunking, racism. In other schools smart kids are unliked (like my school). Some schools will have a large number of rich or poor kids, or biracial kids, foreigners, portugeuse people, white people, black people, etc: this is usually because of the school's history, school fees (we pay here), and location. My school has a lot of portugeuse kids or biracial portugeuse kids because it is near a part of town where a lot of portugeuse people live. We don't have lockers, but other schools rent lockers to students for something like R40 a year. Our schools are open air, meaning that classes aren't under one roof like in America. Most schools these days don't have bells, but use sirens as a bell. My school has a fingerprint machine that marks whether you are present for school or late. We have honours societies or colts that are the elite students at school and wear different colour blazers from the others. In some schools they have their own special room where they eat, relax at break, etc. Cultural events and extramurals differ. At my school we do plays, Idols competitions, science fairs, public speaking, scrapbooking, etc In year 12/grade 12/12th grade we have a special event called a Matric dance where we go to dance dressed in formal clothes. Some girls spend thousands of rands on dresses, shoes and hair. It's kinda like prom night in America, but we don't have a Matric queen or king lol. Hope this helped. If you're gonna go to Joburg, Pretoria or Cape Town consider yourself lucky because you'll meet lots of different people and take part in a LOT of things depending on the students' attitudes and the capability of the school to allow you to. :)