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Flight of Faith
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Campus Chronicles
By Leigh Ann Henion
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
When my plane touches down in Guadalajara, Mexico, I disembark with a plastic-bound conversational Spanish guide and a small rolling suitcase. The agency arranging the homestay for my college-level study abroad hadn’t been able to give me any details about the woman I will be living with for the next few months. So I search the crowd looking for my mysterious hostess.
For the first time, it enters my mind to question whether she will be able to speak English. Uncertainty creeps in as I realize how difficult this airport, this city, this country, will be for me to navigate alone.
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