Learn About Me!

Location:
Essen, Germany
Journal Entry:

Hi there! My name is Sascha, I'm 24 years old and my favorite thing to do is learn new languages. I started learning my second language when I was five years old, and now I can speak four different languages!

I grew up in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, so there was always a lot of culture right outside my front door. In my neighborhood, there were families from places like El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti and Finland. Growing up, I had many friends who didn’t speak English at home with their families, and I always wanted to learn about their languages and where they came from. They would tell me wonderful stories that they learned from their parents about countries I’ve never been to, so naturally that's where I got my urge to start traveling! For a while, I really wanted to go to Japan, because many of the shows that I liked to watch were in Japanese and I thought languages that had a different writing system were so fascinating.

During my last year of high school, I met an exchange student at my school from Germany. She told me about the scholarship that she had won in order to come to the U.S. She said that once she got accepted for the scholarship, she was able to study abroad for free, and when she told me this, I jumped for joy because I knew how I'd make my dreams of traveling come true.

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