Here are some questions that you might like to find answers to. Remember that you don't have to answer them all and you can also add your own questions.

Discussion Questions

1. Where are you going to stay on your vacation? Do they have Youth hostels or Bed and Breakfast places? Will you be able to stay with your new friends?
2. What about the price of food? Can you cook for yourselves or do you plan to dine out? What kind of food do you want to have? Do you think it is available where you are going? Are you going to try some local food? What kind of food is there? You can use the KidCom Who-Am-I? room to ask your hosts.
3. Search the web to find out about the weather where you are going. What kind of weather can you expect? When you have found out about the weather, discuss what kind of clothes to bring with you.
4. What are you going to pack? It is important to have everything you need but not too much. Ask if you need to take something special with you.
5. Have you read about the area you are going to visit? It is much more exciting to travel when you know something about the places you are going to see.
6. Are you going to bring a gift to your hosts? What kind of a gift might be suitable? Some souvenir from home? Something you made yourself?
7. What language is spoken in the country you are going to visit? Can you speak that language? Do you know anyone who can? What are you going to do if you don't speak the native language? Do you want to be able to say some words in the native language when you arrive there? Search the web to find dictionaries that might help.
8. What games can you play with your friends, do you know some good games to introduce to the others?
9. What about health? Do we need some extra precautions? Do we need to buy insurance? Do you need injections?
10. What kind of money is used in the place you choose? How much is 100 in their currency in your currency?
11. What about a passport and a visa? What are passports and visas for? Do you need a new passport or visa? Do we need passports or visas to all the countries we travel to? What information is in a passport or a visa?
12. Do you have any pets that you need to ask someone to take care of for you? Do you have some obligations at home that you need someone to take care of while you are away?

Classroom Activities

1. Now it is the time to start making arrangements for your virtual vacation. Get in touch with your hosts and reach an agreement with them about when to come. What is the easiest way for you to get to the area?
2. How long will it take? How much will it cost? Would you be able to go if this were not a virtual vacation but a real vacation? Compare costs between various offers.
3. Look at traditional souvenirs in your area which you could take with you as a gift. Why are these things souvenirs at your place? Do they reflect your place as you see it?
4. Is this place far from your home? Is it on the same continent as your country?
5. Write down the places you want to see and things you want to do on your vacation and send the list to your hosts via the KidCom Who-Am-I? room.
6. Discuss whether you have any postcards, pictures, travel brochures, posters, etc. from your own place, to exchange with your hosts.
7. If you are travelling to a country where a foreign language is spoken create a little dictionary with common words and phrases to use during your trip.
8. Find out what is the best way to travel to the place you are visiting. You might be able to find information on timetables for flights, trains or other transport methods online. Or you can either send an e-mail to a travel agency or visit one to find out exactly how you are going to get to the place you are planning to visit.

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