Okay... but why do an exchange year?

Now that I have graduated from Boise High School and am planning my year abroad, I have thought a lot about why I have chosen to do another year abroad. The first time I decided to do an exchange year, I had been inspired by my best friend from middle school, who had been from Germany herself. I thought that it was so cool that she had lived in another country and that she could speak more than one language, and I decided that I wanted that for myself. It was this desire to see what was beyond my state of Idaho that compelled me to go live abroad the first time around. It was the allure of the unknown that pulled me out of the comfortable bubble I had been living in my whole life.
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As I lived and studied for a year in Germany, I began to understand more about myself and the world around me, and I was able to learn valuable lessons that have now motivated me to continue studying abroad. Out of the countless things I was able to explore in Germany, I have comprised a list of five reasons as to why I have decided to live and study abroad again.

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