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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...I go? Well, some countries that come to mind would include Botswana in Africa, because it's like far enough from, everywhere, it's a pretty..."
Jiang says that if he were forced to relocate his family quickly, Botswana, Chile, New Zealand, and Malaysia are among the countries he would consider because they seem relatively stable and distant from the main centers of conflict.
Jiang says the school sent students to Botswana for service learning with AIDS orphans and disabled children because cross-cultural adaptation and processing difficult experience train empathy.
Jiang says transformative travel depends less on the trip itself than on the motivation students carry into it; framing Botswana as a college-application booster weakens the empathetic effect.
Rebecca says a Botswana trip taken a month earlier during winter vacation confronted student stereotypes about Africa and revealed a different social reality than they expected.
Rebecca says working with a nonverbal girl with Down syndrome forced her to spend an unusually long stretch trying to infer another person's wants and feelings, including realizing the girl was thirsty and getting her water.
Rebecca says Botswana was the first time she clearly felt she was missing something important in her own capacity to notice and care for other people.
The interviewer explicitly defines empathy here as feeling into someone else's experience, using Rebecca's Botswana story as an example of that process.
Rebecca says her strongest emotional connection in Botswana formed with the girl in her homestay family because long conversation created real mutual knowledge between them.
"...I go? Well, some countries that come to mind would include Botswana in Africa, because it's like far enough from, everywhere, it's a pretty..."
"...that's what we do. Last month, we sent our students to Botswana to do service learning there, to work with AIDS orphans and to..."
"I mean, we sent our students to Botswana and they came back to transform. But I think that that's 9 % of it. How..."
"Uh, so I was, I was thinking about the Botswana trip that we took, uh, a month ago in our winter vacation. We went..."
"And that, and some had difficulties expressing themselves. So I was sitting with that one girl who couldn't speak and, um, and we were..."
"Yeah. So I never really had that experience. Um, and I just, just honestly speaking, I never felt that I lacked that much on..."
"Well, uh, for me, one part of empathy is kind of feeling into someone else's experience. And it sounded like you were, uh, feeling..."
"Um, I think it was the girl I stayed with in the homestay family. And we, I stayed there for one night and, uh,..."
"...getting them to get out into a different environment. I mean, Botswana, Africa, and probably..."
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