Exposure Fosters 'Whole New Perspective'
Arwen Wolfe learned more than any class or textbook could have taught her during a recent student-exchange trip to South Africa. Going to school and living with a host family in the impoverished township of Langa proved to be a life-changing experience for the 18-year-old from Seattle.
"People asked me how the trip was, and I wouldn't know what to say because it was so indescribable," Ms. Wolfe said recently.
"It gave me a whole new perspective on everything," she said. "I don't count myself wealthy through money anymore. I count myself wealthy by the people I know, the things I have seen, and the...
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