Magdalena and Alena came to stay with us for three nights recently. You only ever referred to them as 'The Girls' never quite coming to grips with their names. They instantly became your friends, adopted to provide fun and entertainment.
Maddi stayed with us in 2005 as a 15 year old AFS exchange student from Austria. Some eight years later she joined her friend Alena to spend a month travelling around Australia, visiting all the places that the life of an exchange student attending school makes an impossibility.
I'm constantly inspired by the exchange student process, watching teenagers mature into adults who very often return to the land that challenged, excited, scared and engaged them.
Maybe one day you too will embark on such a journey.
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