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Why every child should spend a year abroad, with Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia
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Exchange students aren’t just the butt of jokes in American teen comedies. They’re young people going through one of the most transformative experiences life has to offer. Expanding it to more children – dare we say, to all children? – could change not just them, but the world.
Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia was dropped in Iowa from the newly broken-up Soviet Union in 1993. Borderline host Isabelle Roughol landed in New Jersey two weeks before 9/11. They reminisce and reflect on the impact of those formative years and share guidance for young people leaving home now – or returning, changed.
00:00 Intro
01:23 Pandemic and cancer
04:01 Vulnerability and what it means to be there for one another
07:13 From Moscow to Africa to Iowa
12:10 Being a young stranger in a foreign land
15:14 How technology ruined it
18:39 Dreaming of a borderless world
22:37 Imagining an universal youth exchange
24:32 How to become a Borderline member
25:36 Learning empathy through lots of cringe
32:19 The returnee’s blues & fitting in nowhere and everywhere
38:33 Outro
💪 Help out: Kate’s daughter, Masha Shishkina, is raising funds to help rare cancer patients like herself fund their treatment. Donate here.
📬 Read, listen, subscribe & support on Substack | 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts | 🎧 Listen on Spotify | 📺 Watch on YouTube | 🌍 borderlinepod.com
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Manage episode 285666239 series 2877566
Exchange students aren’t just the butt of jokes in American teen comedies. They’re young people going through one of the most transformative experiences life has to offer. Expanding it to more children – dare we say, to all children? – could change not just them, but the world.
Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia was dropped in Iowa from the newly broken-up Soviet Union in 1993. Borderline host Isabelle Roughol landed in New Jersey two weeks before 9/11. They reminisce and reflect on the impact of those formative years and share guidance for young people leaving home now – or returning, changed.
00:00 Intro
01:23 Pandemic and cancer
04:01 Vulnerability and what it means to be there for one another
07:13 From Moscow to Africa to Iowa
12:10 Being a young stranger in a foreign land
15:14 How technology ruined it
18:39 Dreaming of a borderless world
22:37 Imagining an universal youth exchange
24:32 How to become a Borderline member
25:36 Learning empathy through lots of cringe
32:19 The returnee’s blues & fitting in nowhere and everywhere
38:33 Outro
💪 Help out: Kate’s daughter, Masha Shishkina, is raising funds to help rare cancer patients like herself fund their treatment. Donate here.
📬 Read, listen, subscribe & support on Substack | 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts | 🎧 Listen on Spotify | 📺 Watch on YouTube | 🌍 borderlinepod.com
★ Support this podcast ★60 에피소드
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