The unique circumstances of 2020, the impossibility to travel abroad and the need of protecting ourselves and our loved ones by staying at home, took from us the opportunity to host students in the UK and to offer them the chance to immerse themselves into the British Culture.
Therefore, we decided to embrace the challenge and try something different and totally new from us: an online programme designed to offer our students the possibility to contact and learn about a different culture and to meet new friends without leaving home. Besides that it would also allow us to be closer and available to our students, so that was how our Virtual Buddy Exchange Programme was born.
The Virtual Buddy Exchange Programme enables the students (and sometimes the parents as well!) to meet a foreign buddy and his/her culture by chatting about several interesting topics such as Technology, Social Media or Environmental Protection. The programme has been designed to promote soft skills such as empathy, patience and problem-solving while developing more practical precious skills like to be able to communicate in a different language with a person from a different background. All of this while learning about very fun topics such as Language, Culture, Gastronomy or more relevant and current issues such as Environmental Protection and the positives or negatives of Social Media.
The current version of the VBE was developed to be a 6 weeks programme, with a 90-minute session per week to talk about 2 different topics but we are able to develop a tailored version according to the group needs. You can find more information on the website and we are always available to hear your thoughts and answer your queries. Don’t hesitate to contact us, we want to hear from you!