This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Amanda Mrozek, an American student ... and our school spirit really came out. In Germany, however, there's nothing that compares.

While Erika Roberts was a high school student growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, she participated in a two-week exchange program that took her to Munich, Germany. She didn't know it at the ...

she struggled with the lack of school spirit and the "stressful" grading system. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Amanda Mrozek, an American student in Cologne, Germany.