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Amanda sees the sights during her year-long study exchange in Spain.

Current Position: Graduated with distinction from the University of Bedfordshire, in England, with a master's degree in intercultural communications; works in London as a cross-cultural trainer and researcher at Global Excellence, a business development company.

Why Whitworth? "Upon reading the class descriptions for my majors, I found all of them fascinating and couldn't wait to enroll. I also knew I wanted to study abroad, but didn't know where, and Whitworth offered opportunities in more than 100 different countries."

Whitworth Activities: "I was only on campus for two academic years, so my involvement in campus activities was minimal. However, I was a member of the international club, and I lived in the Global Safari Theme House, which hosted cultural activities for the Whitworth student body."

Quote: "Not only did Whitworth give me the theoretical background and academic experience that I needed to go on to graduate school and work in the field of intercultural communications and training; it also gave me the practical experience that I needed. Through being a teaching assistant for Spanish and intercultural communications classes, through leading Spanish labs and tutoring Spanish students, and through an internship at a multicultural business, I was able to build up practical experience that I could include in my résumé, which helped me to get where I am today."

Influential Whitworth Experience: "My major life-changing experience occurred not on the Whitworth campus, but during a year-long study abroad experience in Spain through a Whitworth exchange partner. I'm eternally grateful to Whitworth for providing the opportunity to study abroad, not only because the experience gave me the practical learning I needed, but also because it opened my eyes to the world and how I fit into it. I feel like I found myself in Spain."

Career Goals: "After getting married next year, my fiancé and I are planning to move to South America to teach English for six months before moving on to another foreign country, where I hope to continue working in people development. But who knows?"

Here's what some Whitworth graduates are doing with their modern languages degrees:

• Brad Hoine, '09, is taking chemistry courses with native French speakers in Nice, France, and plans to apply to graduate schools to earn a master's degree in French.
  
  
• Matt Krieger, '06, is enrolled in the University of Nevada–Las Vegas School of Dentistry, where he works with patients who speak only Spanish and serves as an interpreter for his classmates.
  
  
• Jessica Kidwell, '08, teaches English in France for the French government and is applying to graduate schools to study in the field of duallanguage development.
  
  
• Lindsey Kiehn, '07 (French, international studies and cross-cultural studies majors), won a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship and teaches English in Korea.
  
  
• Nissana Nov, '08, has been accepted to master's in social work programs at both Columbia University and the University of Chicago.
  
  
• Won Hye Lee, '04, an exchange student from Korea who participated in Whitworth's 2004 France Study Program, is now enrolled in the MBA program at the Yale School of Management.
  
  
• Sarah "Sage" (Miller) Rico, '07, works with Campus Crusade for Christ in Venezuela; she is deciding whether to stay another year or attend graduate school in Spain.
  
  
• Stephanie Kreuter, '07, is the English-language program coordinator at a school in Siguatepeque, Honduras, where she also teaches history. She is applying for a number of graduate programs in economic development.
  
  
• Curtis Flournoy III, '08, is a bilingual manager for Enterprise Rental Car, in Phoenix.