One of the privileges of Youthlinc’s work is the opportunity to learn from communities around the world-not simply about their history, but about what their experiences can teach us about our own communities. Recently, I traveled with a group of students through Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country still living with the legacy of a devastating war that ended thirty years ago. Like many Americans, I arrived with only a basic understanding of the conflict. I knew there had been a

I have never flown internationally before. I can still remember the way my heart was beating as I saw the Eiffel Tower from outside the airplane’s window, thousands of feet above the ground. When we climbed off the plane in Rabat, the ocean breeze called to me: “let’s have an adventure.” I closed my eyes and soaked in the feeling you get from being somewhere strange and new. When I opened them, I saw three soldiers walking on the tarmac. The two on the ends carried automatic