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Arrive
Airport meet & greet across a long arrival window, transfer, room check-in, first meal, safety briefing.
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A soft-landing camp is a short stop-over in the arrival city before students continue to their host family — jet lag, first friendships, the rules, and one conversation with a real person. It is the most logistically dense moment of the whole programme, and every headcount below is counted from what an adult wrote down, never typed.
Typically 2–4 days in the arrival city. Students land from a dozen countries within one 18-hour window, sleep off the jet lag, get the orientation that matters, and fly onward to their host family. Optional and paid in most programmes — everyone who skips it still gets a local orientation day in week one.
Airport meet & greet across a long arrival window, transfer, room check-in, first meal, safety briefing.
Culture shock, host-family expectations, school life, rules and the help button. City tour in the afternoon.
Every student gets a private conversation with staff about their own placement, school and worries.
Domestic flights and pickups, each to a different city. The riskiest half-day of the programme.
Duty of care is the product here. Forty minors, a dozen nationalities, three days, one building — every person must be accounted for at every moment, and every guardian must be reachable within a minute.
A camp is a venue, a window, a price, and the families who said yes. It is optional and it is paid, so declining has to be a one-tap choice with no follow-up pressure — and everyone who declines gets a local orientation day at home instead.