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German exchange student experiences school and life in Small Town U.S.A.

Imagine, if you will, that you're a high school sophomore with a burning desire for adventure, a need to see the world and learn how other people in that world live their lives on a daily basis and you decide to do a foreign exchange year. Then, imagine that choice would mean you had to repeat your eleventh year when you returned home. What would your choice be?

That's exactly the situation that K...