Understanding the world around us is vital to our success, and being able to participate in the Virtual Exchange (VE) gave me an opportunity to learn more and enhance my understanding of the world around me. I was able to communicate with students that are half way around the world and compare our differences and we were also able to identify some similarities. The thing that stood out to me was how the majority of them walked to and from school, meanwhile my group noted that the majority of people do not walk unless it is a densely populated city. We also mentioned that it is more common…