Into the world: A Hazen student’s journey abroad
By Daniel Arens
Every so often, you find yourself able to embark on the trip of a lifetime.
Sometimes it’s for a day, sometimes a week. But sometimes it can be for longer, even several months. And such a trip is likely to leave a lasting impression.
That was the case for Aimee Wiedrich.
“I’ve been thinking about doing a foreign exchange program since my freshman year, but I didn’t start actually acting on it until November of last year,” Wiedrich recalled.
The process moved quickly from there. She turned in her application for participating in the program in January of this year, and was accepted in February, flying out July 10 for a new temporary home across the ocean, a home she would stay at until her return to America Nov. 24.
Her destination? Melbourne, Australia, where she would stay with a host family and experience a semester of education abroad.
