Xperitas

12/29/2025

🥂 How are YOU welcoming 2026?

New Year, New Traditions! Every culture has its own unique way of ensuring good fortune for the year ahead—and some are pretty surprising! From tossing furniture out the window to eating a specific type of sweet treat, the world is full of festive rituals.

What lucky tradition are you bringing into your 2026? Share it below!

Ready to explore how other cultures ring in the New Year? Read our blog to discover more amazing traditions: https://xperitas.org/blog/lucky-traditions-around-world

12/22/2025

Give the Gift of the World 🌍 before the clock runs out!

As the year comes to a close, we reflect on the thousands of lives transformed by Xperitas programs. For many students, this profound cultural experience is only possible through scholarship support.

Your Year-End Donation is an investment in a student’s future. It helps fund:
- Scholarships for students with financial need.
- The authentic, high-quality Family Stay Experience® abroad.
- Support for teachers bringing global learning into their classrooms.

This is your final chance to make a tax-deductible gift for 2024. Please join us in giving the gift of independence, confidence, and a wider world view.

Donate Now: https://www.givemn.org/organization/Xperitasglobalcitizens

12/17/2025

@👋 Hey Xperitas Community! 👋

Just a friendly reminder: we’ve launched a NEW page!

✈️ To ensure you don't miss out on the incredible student stories, stunning travel photos, and important updates about our language and cultural immersion programs (including the famous Family Stay Experience®), please click the link below and GIVE US A FOLLOW! ()

We can't wait to share the world with you and see your favorite travel memories!

https://www.facebook.com/xperitasorg/

12/12/2025

Words of Wisdom from Xperitas Teacher Alumni 🌍✏️

As you prepare for 2026 immersion travel, take inspiration from the insightful reflections shared by our teacher alumni. Their advice highlights the power of early preparation, cultural curiosity, and making full use of Xperitas resources to support students before, during, and after travel.

From class planning and fundraising to homestay preparation and cultural learning, Xperitas offers tools to help educators create meaningful and successful immersion experiences.

Explore our resourcs (newsletters, website, Program Mangers, etc.) and start prepping for your 2026 immersion program!

Don't forget to follow for more insights and updates 🌎

11/25/2025

This Giving Season, will you help Xperitas unlock the world for the next generation of global citizens? 🌍

Your support is the foundation of our mission, ensuring transformative language learning and study abroad are accessible to every student. This year, we're focusing on supporting the entire Immersion Ecosystem—students and the incredible educators who lead them!

Here are 4 vital ways you can partner with us today:

Amplify the Immersion Movement: The most powerful gift is your voice! Please Follow, Engage, and Share our posts to champion the power of cross-cultural understanding with your network, and follow .

Fund the Immersion Ecosystem (Students & Teachers): Gifts provide crucial need-based scholarships (like the Bob & Edie Green Scholarship) for students AND fund Classroom Grants to equip our dedicated teachers with resources back home. It's a dual investment in education!

Be a Traveler's Advocate (My Travel Fund): Connect directly with a student's dream! Your contribution through their personalized My Travel Fund link helps them close the gap and step onto the plane.

The Coffee & Culture Connection: Turn your favorite morning ritual into global support! Purchasing coffee through our ongoing Coffee Fundraiser is a delicious way for groups to raise collective trip funds.

Every act of support builds a more compassionate and empathetic global community. Thank you for your belief in immersion!

➡️ Give today and explore all 4 options: https://www.givemn.org/organization/Xperitasglobalcitizens

11/22/2025

💛 Thank You for Supporting Xperitas on Give to the Max Day! 💛

We are deeply grateful for everyone who donated, shared, or helped spread the word yesterday. Your generosity helps open the world to more students through immersive language and cultural experiences that build empathy, confidence, and global understanding.

But the giving doesn’t stop here.
As we continue through this season of gratitude, you can still support our mission of creating the next generation of global citizens. Every contribution — big or small — makes a meaningful impact for students who dream of experiencing the world beyond their classroom. 🌎✨

💛 Continue supporting our work here:
👉 https://www.givemn.org/organization/Xperitasglobalcitizens

Thank you for believing in connection, culture, and community.
We couldn’t do this without you!

11/20/2025

Will you help us build the next generation of global citizens?

This week is a pivotal time for Xperitas as we participate in Give to the Max, Minnesota’s biggest giving movement, culminating TODAY!

At Xperitas, we believe that true professional and personal growth happens when we step outside our comfort zones and immerse ourselves in new cultures. Our programs don't just teach language—they forge compassionate global leaders by fostering genuine connections between students, educators, and the host communities they visit.

Every donation goes directly toward funding scholarships that remove financial barriers, allowing more students to experience the transformative power of cross-cultural immersion and service-learning.

Your support ensures that every student returns home not just with new language skills, but with empathy, adaptability, and a deeper understanding of the world—qualities essential for any modern career.

Click to donate this week (and especially today!) and double your impact: 🔗
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Xperitasglobalcitizens

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11/03/2025

✨ Get a glimpse into the journeys from this past year! ✨

This video features real clips and photos from our 2025 student immersion programs—capturing the excitement of travel, the joy of host family connections, and the unforgettable cultural exchange moments that make Xperitas unique. 🌍✈️

With destinations like Costa Rica, France, Germany, and Italy, students stepped outside the classroom and into authentic language immersion experiences. Guided by passionate world language teachers and supported by Xperitas, they built confidence, strengthened skills, and grew as global citizens.

✅ For Teachers: Partner with Xperitas to launch your own program. We provide recruitment support, fundraising resources, and complete in-country logistics. With just 6 students enrolled, teachers travel for free!

✅ For Students & Families: Go beyond tourism with teacher-led educational travel that inspires cultural awareness, language fluency, and lifelong memories.

📌 Learn more: https://xperitas.org

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11/03/2025

🌍 We’re moving!

Xperitas has launched a new page to make it even easier for our community to stay connected, share stories, and celebrate cultural immersion together.

Same mission. Same team. A new home for global connection.

👉 Follow us here to stay connected: facebook.com/xperitasorg

Thank you for being part of our journey to foster global citizenship through language and cultural exchange.

Xperitas is a leader in delivering authentic language and cultural immersion programs for student groups looking for transformational travel in Latin history, and Spanish, French and German languages.

10/31/2025

🌍✨ Support Global Connections that Change Lives ✨🌍

Every year, Xperitas helps students step beyond the classroom and into the world—building bridges through language, culture, and authentic human connection.

This Give to the Max Day, your donation helps us:
💬 Provide financial aid so every student can access immersive learning
🏡 Support local host families who welcome students abroad
🌎 Expand opportunities for life-changing cultural exchange

💛 Early giving starts Nov. 1, and every gift—big or small—helps us empower the next generation of global citizens.

📍 Donate today and make a lasting impact:
👉 https://www.givemn.org/organization/Xperitasglobalcitizens

10/28/2025

What truly transforms a trip abroad into a life-changing immersion?

At Xperitas, we know it's the authentic connections forged within our Family Stay Experience®. This isn't just about finding a place to sleep—it's about opening a window into a new culture, language, and way of life.

Our students consistently tell us that living with a local host family is the most impactful part of their journey. It's where:

Language skills skyrocket through daily, natural conversation.

Cultural understanding deepens by sharing meals, traditions, and routines.

Lifelong bonds are formed, turning strangers into family.

Confidence in navigating a new world blossoms with every shared moment.

It's an immersive experience designed to push comfort zones and build global citizens, one genuine connection at a time.

🔗 Discover the magic of our Family Stay Experience®:
xperitas.org/family-stay-experience

10/22/2025

Why should high school students go abroad for a short, immersive trip? 🤔 The benefits are truly transformative—and happen fast!

Short-term language and cultural immersion travel is one of the most powerful tools for developing Global Citizens who are ready for college and career. Here are a few ways a focused Xperitas program impacts students:

📈 Accelerated Language Skills: Using the target language daily with host families and local partners moves fluency beyond the textbook. When there’s no English safety net, proficiency takes off!

🧠 Real-World Confidence: Students learn to navigate new environments, solve unexpected problems, and communicate across cultures—building independence and resilience that lasts a lifetime.

🌎 Intercultural Empathy: Living the language and sharing daily life in our Family Stay Experience® turns a foreign place into a human connection. This builds the empathy and global awareness employers and universities seek.

💡 Clarified Purpose: Stepping outside their comfort zone gives students a fresh perspective on their future, their studies, and the world—often igniting a lifelong passion for travel and language learning.

It's more than a trip; it's a launchpad for personal growth.