When you come from overseas, Spring Hill seems downright exotic

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Exchange seeks host families

Foreign Links Around the Globe is looking for families throughout the Kansas City metro area to host foreign exchange students next year. For more information, contact coordinator Candy Schoenberger at 913-592-5112 or candyschoenberger@gmail.com.

People at Spring Hill High School arent scary at all, foreign exchange students were happy to learn.

Spring Hill is a far cry from Spain, Germany and Brazil.

And thats exactly what makes the little Kansas town that straddles the Johnson-Miami County border so cool, gushed four teenage girls who are participating in the Foreign Links Around the Globe exchange program.

Candy Gonzalez, 16, and Cristina Salazar, 15, both from Spain, joined fellow exchange students Saskia Heussner, 17, of Germany, and Gabi Santana, 16, of Brazil, for an open house presentation last weekend at the Spring Hill Civic Center. The girls are spending their senior year at Spring Hill High School.

To an audience filled with interested families, the girls described the history, culture and architecture of their hometowns.

Afterward, sitting around a table at a local pizza joint, they shared some of the differences between life abroad and life in the States.

For most of them, joining the exchange program was a way to explore a culture that has fascinated them since childhood.

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When you come from overseas, Spring Hill seems downright exotic