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Spending the Holidays in Germany

  • January 26, 2016February 3, 2025
  • by Jon

CBYX 2015-16 participant Bonnie J. writes about her experience celebrating the holidays and finding new perspectives in Freiburg, Germany. I’ve always worked on Christmas Day. My family restaurant required the workforce of my entire family to set business into motion, which required the loss of about twenty well deserved school vacations from twenty high school

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Sharing American Culture Abroad

  • November 26, 2015February 3, 2025
  • by Jon

CBYX 2015-16 participant Cynthia W. writes about presenting during International Education Week in Alfeld, Germany. My presentation was about comparing German and American stereotypes. I gave information about my life in school and at home to provide a perspective about how I live and how it doesn’t necessarily conform to the stereotypical American teenager. It

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‘Fulfilling a Dream’ – Washington Student Wins CBYX Scholarship

  • January 1, 2010October 2, 2018
  • by Jon

Most 16-year-olds would be apprehensive about leaving everything and everyone they know behind to go to a foreign country for a year. But not Eidelynn Stagg. “I spent a summer traveling all over the country with my grandparents when I was little and I loved it,” she said. “And I always have wanted to go

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