Hello girl ! Studying abroad is a really nice oportunity. You're a lucky person, you should be proud of yourself. But I can imagine that this must be difficult, even being a very good chance to get a good level of graduation, good experiencies, and interact with other countries and people. Don´t let the pressure and the adversities knocks you down. Be confident and keep the positive thinking always. We can apply positivity to everything in our lives. Make plans for your trip. Think about how good it will be for your education, and for yourself. This will be a aportunity for you to know yourself better, spend some time alone, think about what do you want for yourself, do things by yourself........your own rules, your own wishes ! Try to stay calm. It will be not good for you travelling to study feeling pressured or nervous, because this can brings you adaptation problems, you can feel bad and get homesick, so everything turns more difficult. Search for everything as possible about the place that you're going for... culture, customs, and try to meet people from there, this way you will feel less alone. Interact with the place can help you a lot, when you feel confortable and welcome were you are, things go better. Stay focused in your purposes girl, work hard for it, and everything will be alright. Just try to give your best. I wish you good luck ! =D

Hello girl ! I think there's no specific answer for your question. Have or not homework in the holidays and vacations, doesn´t have a relation only with the country where you come from or only with your culture. It depends of other things too. For example: I live in Brazil, here we have 2 vacation periods. We have vacations at the middle of the year (july to august), and vacations at the end of the year until the next year (december to february), when we start a new grade year. In the most of the schools here, if you're going bad in your classes and vacations are coming, you're supposed to have to do extra homework during vacations, this is a chance to get better class notes, and be analyzed again. This is named something like' recoveration time'. If you fail in the recoveration time at the vacations in the middle of the year, you have the next months to recover, until the vacations in the end of the year. And when the vacations in the end of the year comes, if you still going bad, depending of your situation, if it's not so bad, you get another chance to do extra homework again. This is the final recoveration time, you can be approved or not. And about the holidays, it´s just like a normal day, you stay at home, but if you have some unfinished homework to do, you just do it. If you don´t, you enjoy your day ! xD So, I think this doesn't have relation with specific countries or cultures. It depends of the teaching methodology that your school and teachers have, and depends if you're going good or bad in your classes. I hope this help you, and hope you understand my english. =)