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Exchange students Juan Zarate and Denis Sitzmann play a traditional Paraguayan song for Free State spanish students. The group of Paraguayans arrived on Jan. 16 and will leave on Feb. 20.

Paraguayan exchange students hope to experience new things in the U.S.

Hala Hamid, Copy Editor February 2, 2016

As nine exchange students from Paraguay stepped off the plane and into the Kansas City airport, they were greeted with colorful signs and smiling faces. For five weeks, they will bear the frigid Kansas...

Lost in Translation

allison harwood February 16, 2010

Living in a foreign country for a whole six weeks is difficult, but people often overlook the difficulty of hosting an exchange student.   There is a great deal of planning involved in preparing to...

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