High school grads participating in the American Exchange Project are sent on a free, week-long trip to a hometown very different from their own – crossing boundaries of blue and red states to find grey areas of common ground…. Under a nearly full moon in the unpolluted darkness of the night sky over Kansas, a group of student stargazers sat in a circle taking turns on the telescope. “It’s weird. Like, some craters are super-tiny,” said one. It was a bonding experience that was out of this world, especially given that only a day before they were as foreign to each other as the lunar landscape itself. Franely Rodriquez, a Dodge City, Kansas, native, said, “Politically and just morally, what we believe is completely different. So I was like, are we gonna get along?” Kaya Woo, who hails from just north of Berkeley, California, said, “Everyone, they’re like, ‘What’s your summer plans?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m going to Kansas.’ And without fail everyone was like, ‘Why? Why would you go to Kansas?'” Why? The better question may be why not.
Source: Sunday Morning – CBSNews.com
