Carl Augustsson:  

Life After graduating from high school a year early in 1994, I went to live in Geneva, Switzerland as a high school exchange student. While there I lived with a Belgian family and my French improved greatly. It was during this year that I realized what I had always suspected, that I wanted to live an international life traveling the world and learning other languages and having friends from other countries. After that, I went to the University of Richmond, where I majored in International Studies focusing on Modern Europe. I spent my junior year at Uppsala University in Sweden, the other country in which I am a citizen. After I got my BA from Richmond, I joined the Peace Corps and served as an English teacher at a high school in Pleven, Bulgaria. Ten years earlier, in 1989 when I was 12, I watched the dramatic events in Eastern Europe and decided that I wanted to live there for a while. I also felt that the US should do more to help Eastern Europe, so of to Bulgaria I went. It was a wonderful experience and Peace Corps is certainly something that I would recommend. In 2001, I went to get my Master's degree in Euroculture from Groningen, in the Netherlands. I spent the second half of that year back at Uppsala, Sweden. As a result, both schools gave me an MA! ...Expand for more