FLEX Fashion Designer’s Thank You
Akmaral Arzybaeva '07
Tashkumyr, Kyrgyzstan/Needham, MA
I was a six-year old girl who would bring candies from home and sell them to classmates at school until my...
FLEX Alumni Armenia Mentoring Program: Successes of Azniv Tadevosyan ’13 (Gyumri)
Azniv Tadevosyan '13
Gyumri, Armenia/Visalia, CA
Mentee of the FLEX Alumni Armenia Mentoring Program
FLEX Alumni Armenia Mentoring program started in the summer of 2015. It is...
Building Bridges between America and Turkmenistan: International Arts and Crafts Project
For over a year, FLEX alumni in Turkmenabat, Turkmenistan have been running an international art project that aims at fulfilling the main goal of...
The First Cohort of Polish FLEX Alumni Off to a Great Start!
Have you ever wondered how the FLEX Alumni program started in your country, or how the first group of participants managed to create the...
Changing Host Families
Mariya Guzenko ‘03
Chelyabinsk, Russia/Farmington, PA
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It’s obvious that a good rapport with the family is the student’s guarantee of a successful...
My Mexican Brother: 11 Years of Friendship
Alisa Klots Baranova ’99
Perm, Russia/ Spokane, WA
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Every FLEX student had a host family. Most of us had siblings. So did...
Tbilisi Performance of the Vagina Monologues
Elene Chumburidze ‘09
Tbilisi, Georgia/Lake Station, IN
"The Vagina Monologues" is an internationally acclaimed play created by Eve Ensler in 1996. On the 26th of June, 2013 for...
FLEX City Representative of April 2014 Ketevan Mamasakhlisi ’13 (Rokhi, Georgia)
Ketevan Mamasakhlisi ’13
CR for the Imereti Region of Georgia
Ketevan Mamasakhlisi ’13 is the FLEX Alumni City Representative of the month of April 2014 and...
Exchanges to Internships, Experiences to Interests
Nadezhda Pak ‘10
Raymore, MO/Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Current education: American University of Central Asia
Since returning from her 2010 FLEX exchange year in Raymore, Missouri, Nadezhda Pak has...
Storia d’Amora: Connecting Russian FLEX and U.S. Hosts at Wedding in Italy
Olesya Dianova ‘97
Moscow, Russia/Albany, NY
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When Fedor proposed to me two years ago, there were at least couple of...