The Exchange Rate

Hello, everyone! Welcome to my blog. So, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Jacob. I am starting a blog for several reasons. First, I want to document my senior year of high school. Second, I want to document my wonderful exchange year for myself. Third, I want to share my year with my family and friends. For the rest of this post I am going to provide some context      Now, I found out a little more than three months ago that I have been chosen as a KL-YES Abroad scholarship recipient for the 2018-19 school year. I'm sure most of you are unfamiliar with this scholarship program, so I will be linking the website, but at it's core, the KL-YES Abroad scholarship is a program that sends and receives exchange students from countries around the world. I will be focusing on the outbound program, because that is what I will be doing in the following year. The outbound program sends 65 American high schoolers to one of 13 countries: Macedonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and...