"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait." My mom has been telling me this phrase since I was only nine years old and I recall not having a single clue to what it meant. My skills in the French language were basic as I only knew introductory phrases like "hello" and "my name is." In a literal sense this saying means "if the youth only knew, if age only could." Even after learning this translation, my premature mind was unable to...

Describe an experience of cultural difference, positive or negative, you have had or observed. What did you learn from it?

Imagine being dropped off at a foreign school without knowing more than ten words in their language. You are only 12 years old and know the name of exactly one other person in that school: your sister. Your mother is staring at you walking towards the intimidating, "Hogwarts"-looking school, contemplating whether or not this was a wise decision. This decision of course, included taking her children across the world to France, putting them in a private French school with customs...

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The University of Washington is a large public university that is highly ranked, has very...