{"id":88570,"date":"2019-05-03T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=88570"},"modified":"2019-05-06T08:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:34:56","slug":"discovering-second-family-halfway-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/discovering-second-family-halfway-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering a Second Family Halfway Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Daria Herasymova was a high school sophomore, she left Dripro, Ukraine, as a foreign- exchange student to spend her junior year 5,575 miles away at Oxford High School.<\/p>\n<p>She had been selected as a finalist for the Future Leaders Exchange Program administered by the U.S. Department of State, but little did she know this would lead her to find her &#8220;second family&#8221; and college.<\/p>\n<p>Click the image below to read Herasymova\u2019s story, which is part of the \u201cJourney to Commencement\u201d series that highlights University of Mississippi students and their academic and personal journeys from college student to college graduate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page-embed.js\"><\/script><a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/3gsR3inVbRKz8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/3gsR3inVbRKz8\/embed.jpg?buster=1556895634239\" alt=\"Discovering a Second Family Halfway Around the World\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Daria Herasymova was a high school sophomore, she left Dripro, Ukraine, as a foreign- exchange student to spend her junior year 5,575 miles away at Oxford High School. 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