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These are exchange alumni stories. In their words.
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Auf Wiedersehen

by Brooke Burrows, Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX)

Elke Oberfrank decided to take a chance on me. I was a 15-year-old American whose dyed red hair was as vivid as her thickly smeared eyeliner was dark. I was an exchange student six weeks into my stay in…


Citizen Diplomacy Story Challenge 2016 Winners: Jessye Kass, Second Place

by Jessye Kass, Fulbright U.S. Student to Thailand, 2013–2014

Lizards in Thailand were small, harmless creatures that scrambled around my bedroom; geckos were a foot long…