As a student, the virtual exchange program didn’t necessarily hugely impact my life, although I can say I got to meet some really great, down-to-earth people on the other side of the world. What I can say I learned from this experience is a got a better first-hand understanding of what life is like in Iraq. Some of the cultural differences I thought were kind of neat. Such as, no one really moves out of their original familial home until they have a family of their own and there isn’t a rush on young people to move out once they reach adulthood. In America, there’s more of a move of young…