Center for Cultural Interchange and Greenheart Blog

 My exchange year is almost over, and my American dream is going to finish soon. I think that this year was the most successful, productive and fun year in my life. I can call it “a year of experiences” because I experienced a lot of new things, I learned and gained many useful skills for me and my country’s future improvement. I feel blessed, when I remember everything that I have done during this year, so I decided to share the experiences that were very important for me and will always stay in my memory. Read more on Wordpress.

 Greenheart Club members are making a difference!  This past spring, Jie Yin of Thailand came to the U.S. as a Work and Travel student working in Medora, North Dakota.  Medora is also home to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, a gorgeous park reserve containing an endless species of plants and wildlife, as well as the beautiful North Dakota Badlands.  This is where Jie Yin decided to focus her project! Read more...

Once a month from December to April, Area Representative Bunny Esposito picked up the CCI high school exchange students she supervised and drove them all to Oak Street Elementary School in Plattsburgh, New York. The students spent an hour working with 5^th graders on a Global Village project. The volunteer project culminated in Global Village Night, with displays, food, and the 5th graders - and CCI students - speaking new languages! Read more