Top 100 International Exchange & Experience Blogs 2012
IX12 (International Exchange & Experience 2012) is a competition from bab.la and Lexiophiles presenting you with the top 100 blogs on living abroad. The IX blog competition has been running for three years (also check out the 2009, 2010 and 2011 results).
Worldwide location of the top 100 exchange & experience bloggers
Browse through the list to find bloggers all over the world sharing their experience abroad. Many of them are high-school and university students on exchange, au-pairs or au-pair families, around-the-world-travellers, expats or young enthusiasts doing a voluntary year of social service abroad. The common bond is that all of them are living, exploring, learning, and experiencing a foreign country and blogging about it!
We have put together this year's top 100 International eXchange and eXperience bloggers on a map. You can click on the map and might even find out one of the bloggers is living near you.
Read more about how and why we put this list together.
| 1 | Intercâmbio de A a Z | |
 | Five countries and eleven exchanges: England, USA, Australia, France, Canada and Germany! | |
| 2 | Petr's Maastricht blog – student's life on scene | |
 | Czech guy in Maastricht | |
| 3 | Na terrinha do tio Sam | |
 | Brazilian studying for a year in the land of Uncle Sam | |
| 4 | Blog jednoho hloupýho Honzy | |
 | Czech economics and international relations student in Norway | |
| 5 | Denmark: An insider view from a student's perspective | |
 | Indian guy studying in Denmark | |
| 6 | Silke in Australia | |
 | Belgian girl in Southport, QLD, Australia | |
| 7 | Adventures of a Muscat-teer! | |
 | American girl, year abroad in Oman | |
| 8 | Taty in the UK | |
 | Brazilian living in the UK | |
| 9 | A Broad Abroad | |
 | American Girl living in Copenhagen and studying at the university of Copenhagen | |
| 10 | Marcelo Goes | |
 | Information about exchange programs to students and relatives | |
| 11 | Czech girl in Stockholm | |
| 12 | One hundred days of a girl lost in the streets of the Big Apple | |
| 13 | A Spanish Erasmus student in Switzerland | |
| 14 | A California Girl in Germany | |
| 15 | A Brazilian girl living in the land of alps and chocolate: Switzerland | |
| 16 | A volunteer experience with the organisation "Kulturweit" | |
| 17 | Swedish girl studying in the USA | |
| 18 | Woman living in Kuwait and sharing her experiences | |
| 19 | Irish woman in Bangalore | |
| 20 | The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page | |
| 21 | Polish au pair in the US | |
| 22 | French student at Linköping Universitet for his master's degree | |
| 23 | Brazilian living in the US | |
| 24 | American girl in Tunisia | |
| 25 | Danish guy roadtripping around the US | |
| 26 | Spaniard living in India | |
| 27 | Polish girl living in the USA | |
| 28 | Polish high school student in India | |
| 29 | A Polish woman living in Fairfield, IA, with her husband | |
| 30 | Sophie's American adventure: News about everything and me | |
| 31 | American girl living in France | |
| 32 | Indian girl in Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 33 | Don't dream your life - live your dream | |
| 34 | Laura in the USA from 2011 to 2012 | |
| 35 | A Canadian exchange student in Denmark | |
| 36 | American girl doing an AIESEC internship in Panama | |
| 37 | Two Spaniards living in Prague | |
| 38 | Spanish woman sharing her life experience in Germany | |
| 39 | Brazilian girl living in Florida | |
| 40 | Polish high school student in Brazil | |
| 41 | An English translator's experience of the Andalusian culture, food, and language | |
| 42 | Polish high school student in the US | |
| 43 | Mexican moved to India to work for an NGO | |
| 44 | Swedish girl studying in Australia | |
| 45 | German boy studying at a high school in the USA | |
| 46 | Polish high school student in Brazil | |
| 47 | French girl living in Hawaii | |
| 48 | German girl living one year in Estonia | |
| 49 | A Spanish freelance translator and interpreter, currently based in Manchester (United Kingdom). | |
| 50 | 12 months out of Egypt to read along | |
| 51 | French student in Stockholm | |
| 52 | Man living in Indonesia | |
| 53 | German guy living in Mexico | |
| 54 | German girl living in Siberia | |
| 55 | A Texan in Paris | |
| 56 | Travelling experiences | |
| 57 | Canadian girl in Berlin | |
| 58 | It's kind of like 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?', but with less criminal activity | |
| 59 | A year abroad in Norway | |
| 60 | Brazilian living in Vancouver, Canada | |
| 61 | A couple in Argentina | |
| 62 | From Salt Lake City to South Korea | |
| 63 | French girl in Kenya | |
| 64 | A French girl in Norway | |
| 65 | Irish girl in Germany | |
| 66 | Spanish woman living in Belgium | |
| 67 | An internship of a Czech guy in Brasil | |
| 68 | After Saint Louis, MO and Albuquerque, NM, here we are in North California in the suburbs of San Francisco, in Foster City and San Mateo | |
| 69 | French girl in Dublin | |
| 70 | Canadian girl living and studying in Copenhagen | |
| 71 | Danish guy on a high school semester in the USA | |
| 72 | German girl living one year in Chile | |
| 73 | American in Iceland | |
| 74 | German girl in Brazil | |
| 75 | American Girl living in Copenhagen and studying at the university of Copenhagen | |
| 76 | UK girl in Reykjavík | |
| 77 | Mexican guy living in India | |
| 78 | Swedish girl studying in Brazil | |
| 79 | Czech guy in San Francisco | |
| 80 | French girl living in Milan | |
| 81 | German girl doing an internship in Taiwan | |
| 82 | Two Brits in Portugal | |
| 83 | Young American graduate in China | |
| 84 | Girl studying in China from Aug 2011-Jun 2012 for her junior year of high school | |
| 85 | German teenager in ice-cold Finland | |
| 86 | Swedish boy studying in Japan | |
| 87 | Brit in Iceland | |
| 88 | French couple in New York | |
| 89 | Avery Segal, a YES Abroad gap year student in Ghana | |
| 90 | A Swedish exchange student in France | |
| 91 | An American living in Norway and travelling through Europe | |
| 92 | Polish au pair in the US | |
| 93 | Writer travelling and experiencing Germany | |
| 94 | Polish girl in the US | |
| 95 | Brazilian girl studying at a high school | |
| 96 | French expat in New Zealand | |
| 97 | Polish girl living in Paris | |
| 98 | An exchange year in the USA with the AYUSA organisation | |
| 99 | In Korea with ICYE | |
| 100 | British woman living in Argentina and writing in Spanish |
Thanks to everyone that wrote, nominated and voted for these blogs! We hope to see you back on Lexiophiles soon, and look forward to seeing your contributions to the bab.la dictionaries.