General Suggestions

• Call or write to your host family

• Skype, email, FB, Google voice, texts via Skype or your own phone

• You can send letters for your host family to Tandana in Ohio, and we will deliver them when we have the opportunity.  Please mark clearly who the letter is for.
  

• Counseling services

• Interact with speakers of the language you spoke while abroad
  

• Make scrap books or post pictures

• Stay in touch with alums and friends from your time abroad

• Share reflections on your experience and browse reflections from others in the Tandana community
  
• Stay engaged through social media
• Tandana's Facebook page
• Tandana Staff Facebook group
• Tandana's LinkedIn page
• Tandana on Twitter
• Watch Tandana videos on YouTube
  
• Write a post for Tandana's blog and follow it to see other posts.
  

• Professional and academic inclusion of experience

• Give presentations at local schools

• Do trainings or presentations for local study abroad office or schools on the country, your experience, etc.

• Incorporate your experience into your resume

• Offer former TF volunteers and interns the opportunity to work and volunteer with you in the future

• Join the TF or another international organization's board if a position is available

• Seek out opportunities to use skills and remain connected with TF
• Consider coordinating future programs
• Special projects that come up - Tandana can always use volunteers to work on various things.  Share your ideas for projects to take on or skills such as:
• Translation
• Graphic design
• Outreach
• Video production
  
• Recruit future volunteers and interns.  Your help in spreading the word makes a big difference.
  

• Be a mentor to new TF interns and volunteers as they prepare to go

• Write in a journal, blog, or an article for a paper or other publication

• Volunteer to work with immigrants or refugees from the area you lived in

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