Jedel Galloway, CBYX Student from AYUSA Makes the News!

Jedel Galloway (seen below, right with Martina Kern, another CBYX scholar, left), one of our CBYX students was featured in a newspaper.  She loved the experience and comments: “I can’t complain about anything because no matter what the problem is, it is quickly fleeting and replaced by true joy and happiness almost immediately,” she said. “I love life in Germany and would highly suggest this program to anyone seeking adventure, learning and a heck of a lot of fun.” 

“I wish I could explain how absolutely stunning it is in Germany, the cooing birds or the sound of bell, the feeling of sunshine or the smell of rain. I wish I could show you what I see, allow you to listen to what I hear, and help you to feel the things I feel.   Alas all of these are impossible so I am resigned to telling you that all is absolutely spectacular! I am constantly surrounded by incredible people who do incredible things, beautiful old buildings mixed right in with new age modern ones, old traditions, but open minds.  I am immersed into a family that is like any good family on Earth, totally loving and amazing with quirks like anyone else.  All this though, doesn’t even to begin to describe how much I’ve learned in my past month and a half here. My German skills, while by absolutely no means are perfect, have improved with such speed as to give me hope and confidence for the future.  The people are very cooperative and patient with me and I get along quite nicely. All in all this has been an outstanding experience thus far and I see it continuing to be so for my remaining 9 months.  It’s not all easy, but the immediate as well as long term rewards far outweigh any difficulties along the way.  I can’t complain about anything because no matter what the problem is, it is quickly fleeting and replaced by true joy and happiness almost immediately.  I love life in Germany, and would highly suggest this program to anyone seeking adventure, learning, and a heck of a lot of fun. I see my year as a CBYX student as being the best, if not one of the best, years of my life.”

One Klein High School student is spending her 2008-2009 school year in Germany after being awarded the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Scholarship to study in Germany through AYUSA International.

Jedel Galloway is one of 250 students nationwide to win the merit-based scholarship. The scholarship is a joint-sponsored grant between the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag. It funds American and German students to study abroad for one academic year in each of their opposing countries. The scholarship was designed to strengthen ties and share cultural insights between German and American youth.

Jedel had some wonderful things to say about Germany:

“Germany is absolutely spectacular,” Galloway said. “I am constantly surrounded by incredible people who do incredible things, beautiful old buildings mixed right in with the new-age modern ones and old traditions, but open minds.”

She describes her German host family as loving, amazing and having quirks like any other family.

“I can’t even describe how much I’ve learned in my past month-and-a-half here,” she said. “My German skills have greatly improved and the people are very cooperative and patient with me.”

Galloway said she’s had an outstanding experience so far and is looking forward to the next nine months she will spend in Germany.

“I can’t complain about anything because no matter what the problem is, it is quickly fleeting and replaced by true joy and happiness almost immediately,” she said. “I love life in Germany and would highly suggest this program to anyone seeking adventure, learning and a heck of a lot of fun.”

For more information on the CBYX Scholarship or to host an international exchange student, call 800-579-1709 ext. 5610 or visit AYUSA at www.ayusa.org.

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