Decades of Boats, Buses, and Boarding Passes

Welcome back to The AFS Exchange! We are continuing our series highlighting the people who keep the AFS engine running: our dedicated volunteers. 

In order for a student to get from their home country to their host community, AFS depends on the support of Travel Volunteers who guide students through bustling airports, navigate tight layovers, and step in to help when a connection is missed.

In this episode, we’re exploring the evolution of the Travel Volunteer role, starting nearly 75 years ago. We begin with a journey through the history of AFS student travel- from 1950s ocean liners and cross-country bus trips to the smartphones and streamlined arrival journeys of today.

Then, we’re joined by two expert Travel Volunteers, Fevzi Caglarsu and Tyler Henry, from the National Council Travel Advisory Group. They share what it’s actually like to be the “first face” a student sees in the U.S., how they navigate the unexpected with creative flexibility, and why this high-energy, fast-paced role is one of the most rewarding ways to support the AFS mission.

Meet the Guests:

• Fevzi Caglarsu: Dallas Area Team
• Tyler Henry: Georgia Area Team

In this episode, we discuss:

• How student travel evolved from ocean liners and long-haul buses to modern global flight networks.
• What Travel Volunteers actually do on the ground (or on the couch).
• How volunteers think on their feet to keep students safe and moving.
• How you can join the Travel Volunteer network and what motivated these volunteers to come back year after year.

How to get involved:

• Volunteer Nationally: Current volunteers can learn about national leadership roles via Help & Learning for Volunteers or by emailing askafs@afsusa.org.
• Not a volunteer yet? Head to afsusa.org/volunteer to get started.

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Transcript

Kate
Hello and welcome to The AFS Exchange. I'm Kate Mulvihill. On this podcast, we share real stories from the AFS community. We're here to explore how exchange programs change lives, one conversation at a time.

Kate
So I was very excited to work on this episode. It’s one I’ve been wanting to do for a while. I am not sure why it took six seasons for me to make it happen. 

My very first position at AFS-USA- the job that actually brought me to New York City back in 2017- was in the Travel and Logistics Department. As the Regional Travel and Logistics Coordinator, I supported the travel for students hosted on the East Coast, the whole southern half of the country, and California. I was part of a small staff team that planned Arrivals and Departures for over a thousand students annually.

During the peak summer months, we’d bring on seasonal staff, but even then, there were about 20 of us max. Managing the travel for over a thousand teenagers over the course of just a few days sounds impossible, right? Well, it would’ve been- if it weren’t for the support of hundreds of volunteers across the country. They were the ones on the ground, getting students safely from Point A to Point B.

They’d spend hours at airports, or they act as chaperones on 12-hour bus rides- hello, Kansas City to Houston! And they do all of this while maybe managing the arrival of their own host student or navigating the mixed emotions of saying goodbye to teenagers who had become part of their communities.

Travel Volunteers play an indispensable role for AFS, and I am so excited to share more about that world in this episode. I’m joined today by two Travel Volunteers and genuine AFS travel experts: Fevzi Caglarsu and Tyler Henry. Both are deeply experienced in the logistics of exchange and serve on our Travel Advisory Group, which Fevzi co-chairs. We’re going to talk about what Travel Volunteers actually do on the ground, how you can get involved, and why they find this work so rewarding. We’ll also look at how they handle the hiccups that may pop up and what student travel looks like here in 2026.

I’m also going to be doing a little more talking than usual today at the top. I want to give you a brief history of how AFS travel has evolved- from the days of students arriving by boat to the modern systems we use today. I want to give you that background so you can truly appreciate the "logistical puzzle" Fevzi and Tyler are describing.

[Music]

Kate
To keep things simple, I’m going to break this history down into three phases. And just a heads-up: I’m specifically talking about the "hosting" side- students coming into the U.S.- rather than Americans going abroad.

Phase One takes us back to the early days, 1940s through late 1960s. AFS students arrived via ships, docking in New York City after days at sea. From the pier, they didn't hop on a flight; they boarded charter buses that crossed the entire country.
These buses were filled with students headed to different points along the route. As a bus stopped in a city like Buffalo, a few students would get off to meet their families, while the rest stayed on until the next stop three hours later in Cleveland.
If a student was continuing much further west, they would often stay with a Welcome host family for a night to rest before getting back on the bus to continue their journey. Even back then, these massive logistical events were supported by volunteers who assisted with the arrivals, the departures, and the hand-offs every step of the way. These bus rides were real bonding experiences for the students. If you talk to an AFSer from this time, they will certainly bring up the boats and the buses.

Second phase started in early 1970s, more or less. AFS students would fly into one of a limited number of gateway cities. By the end of this phase the list would include New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Houston. Which gateway they landed in depended on where they were placed for the year. To illustrate phase two and three for you all, I am going to tell the stories of two students- Juliana from Brazil and Sora from Japan.

For example, Juliana from Brazil was placed in San Francisco. She flew to Los Angeles after a layover in Miami, then met up with the rest of the students from around the world who were placed in California and the Southwest for that year . She and her peers spent the night in an airport hotel with volunteers and a few staff members. The next day, she took a chartered bus up to San Francisco.

Or, take Sora from Japan who was placed in Washington DC. He flew to New York City, stayed overnight, then took a bus down to Washington DC with the rest of his team and a volunteer chaperone.

This phase worked for a while! When everything was being done via mail, fax, or telephone, the safest and easiest thing logistically was to keep everyone together- especially in a world before the internet and teenagers with smartphones. But there were pros and cons. Even when everything went exactly as scheduled, it was… a lot.

Like Juliana from Brazil whose final destination is San Francisco. Let's get into the details of what this trip really looks like. She leaves Sao Paolo in the evening, and has a layover in Miami. She gets into Miami early in the day, 5 or 6am, then has to kill maybe 10 hours in the airport, before getting on a flight to Los Angeles. She gets into LA, it’s then like 10pm. By the time she arrives at the hotel, eats, and gets settled, it’s midnight. Then an 8am bus with a volunteer chaperone up to San Francisco with the rest of her group, which is 8 hours. Then her host parents pick her in a central location in San Francisco, and have a 1- 2 hour drive home. She’s been traveling for 48 hours, not even counting how long it took for her to get to the airport in Brazil. And that’s when things do go as planned.

And when they… don’t? Let’s take Sora. He flies direct from Tokyo to New York City, getting in mid morning. He’s jetlagged, but it’s a smooth trip. He’s met at JFK by volunteers and brought to the hotel for lunch before he’s supposed to board a bus with 29 other students bound for DC.

But when it comes time to get on the charter bus... 20 people are missing. There are massive thunderstorms in Germany, so the German students- and everyone connecting through Frankfurt- are stuck.

Now Sora and the nine other students who did arrive have to spend a “surprise” night at the hotel. Maybe even two. Sure, the bus could leave anyway, but then what happens when the other 20 students finally show up? Does AFS hire another bus? Pull another chaperone out of thin air? Sometimes we would make it happen, but it wasn’t easy and not fun for anyone.

This was the reality for many years. You just can’t plan for every strike, weather event, staffing shortage, or diverted plane.

Phase three started rolling out in the late 2010s. It’s called through-ticketing. Fevzi and Tyler will refer to it a couple of times in our interview, so I want to make sure you know the term.

Pretty much, it means there is just one ticket from the student’s home country all the way to their final destination in the US. They might still have layovers in New York or Chicago, but they don’t leave the airport to go to a hotel or wait for a group bus. No one goes out of their way just to "regroup."

Going back to Juliana and Sora- how their travel trips could look different with through-ticketing.
Juliana still flies from Sao Paolo to Miami, and maybe does have a long layover inside the airport. But then, she flies directly to San Francisco, where a volunteer at the airport connects her to her host family before her 2 hour drive home. She skips the extra flight to LA and that eight-hour bus ride. She just saved nearly an entire day of travel.

Sora flies from Tokyo and maybe has a layover in LA. There are volunteers on call at the airport if he needs support, but otherwise, he can get on a flight right to DC. If there are storms in Germany? It doesn't matter. It doesn't affect his plan at all.

So, we went from boats and buses, to gateways and buses, to the streamlined through ticketing system we have today. It’s all… very complex. Thousands of moving pieces. Literally.
Now that you’ve got that history, let's look at what things look like on the ground for Travel Volunteers in 2026.

Kate
So now we’re going to have a little Q+A with our two experts- Fevzi and Tyler. Fevzi Caglarsu has been with AFS almost 20 years, first in Birmingham, Alabama, then in Dallas.

Fevzi 
Originally, I'm from Turkey, and I came to the United States as a college student, and I lived with an American family. I didn't like the dormitory life, so I kind of know what AFS exchange students are going through.
I lived in Birmingham, Alabama. I was at an International Festival at a local college. That's the first time I met an AFS volunteer. So that's how my involvement with AFS started. 
And we moved to Dallas, Texas about 10, 12, years ago, and I kept on volunteering with AFS. We hosted students. I did all kinds of different volunteer positions with AFS Dallas and AFS Birmingham.

Travel has been my favorite subject to get involved with AFS. I traveled quite a bit internationally. I've been to many international airports, went through customs, had all kinds of difficulties, so I feel that I can help students traveling through Dallas. If they have any issues, I am the right person to help them out. That's the reason I got involved with the travel department. And I love it. It's the best volunteering job you can have.

Kate
And in Atlanta, Georgia, we have Tyler Henry. His story looks a bit different. He first got connected to AFS when he participated in a summer program in Costa Rica. He’s always had a passion for travel. While he’s a teacher by day, he has an interesting side hustle that started when he was just 15.

Tyler
When I was 15, as a high school sophomore, I actually took an entrepreneurship class and started a travel agency. I didn't realize how easy it actually was at the time. Obviously, it's different now, but, yeah, I just went to City Hall, got a business license and then sent it to all the travel suppliers and said, Hey, I want to sell your products. Here's a W9, let me sell your stuff.
I started the job to get free trips, but, you know, it's just kind of became a something that I, I just feel like I'm good at, and I just enjoy it. And, you know, having all the the back office phone numbers for different airlines and being able to, you know, this flight got canceled, hey, let's change this as really kind of come in, come to be a little helpful for students traveling through Atlanta.
So little high school project that went, you know, went crazy, but all that to say, I love travel. I have a passion for it, and definitely, obviously, with the exchange program as well, we've hosted, officially, we've hosted five, we've picked up a few others, not intentionally, but they have landed at our house, so that's been fun, too. Liaison for probably two dozen.
So just love exchange students. Love their passion for everything that they bring to our culture.

Kate
What are the steps involved in getting an AFS student from their home country to the US?

Fevzi 
Okay, so we start the travel arrangements. When we place a student with a host family, we ask the travel representative of that area which airport they would prefer to pick up the student from. We pass that information back to the sending AFS organization. They buy the ticket. The country that's sending the student buys the ticket. The student will come to United States and go back. So we have little control over the trip, but we can tell them which airport fits best for the local chapter.

They may have to fly within their country, from a small airport to a Major international airport fly to a major international airport in United States, go through customs there and then take a local flight from that major airport to a smaller local airport.

So we are involved in the process through the transit airport. When they land, we text the students using WhatsApp, let them know we are there to assist them. And if they have any issues, to let us know.
Arrivals is the major event for us. We are the first face the students see. So we want to give a good impression, and we want everything to run smoothly. And also, they're very excited. Also, it's a little scary for them. They've never, you know, some of them, has never been overseas before by themselves. They have language difficulties. They do not understand the procedures. So we're there to assist them the best we can.

Kate
That is a great explanation, Fevzi, and what you were saying about how you are the you could be the first face that the student sees, or even if they're transiting behind security, or if they never see you, you could be the first person they're communicating with, right? And it's like "I just showed up in the United States. I know no one. I just have this phone number, okay, but there's somebody on the other end. His name is Fevzi, or he is another volunteer, and he will help me. "And are these students coming in groups of 30? Is everyone coming on their own? Is it a mix?

Tyler
You never know. It could be 30. It could be one.

Fevzi
It's always a mix. We have several countries that now that we have through-ticketing, students can come to various international airports. So we don't get these big, 30, 40-student groups anymore. They are smaller, and they go to all kinds of different airports all around the United States to go through customs first, and then they take their local connecting flight. It’s more challenging for us because you have ones and twos all the time coming all throughout the day. It's easier to have 30 kids come at once, meet them all, you know, put them all to their destination gates, and be done with it. You have to communicate all the time with all different students coming and going. So it's, it's a little bit more involved now, but it's still fun.

Kate
Tyler, what does the process look like on your end? Similar to what Fevzi is saying, helping students behind transit?

Tyler
Yeah. So yeah. And again, with Atlanta being its own beast, the airport is actually two separate buildings. We have the international terminal, the domestic terminal, and if you're trying to get to both of them by by land or like on the ground, it's about 15 minutes or so driving between one terminal to the other. There is an underground train that will take you. Unfortunately, a lot of students miss the signage that if they have a connecting flight, that they need to go one direction and they go the other direction and end up out at baggage claim, at a outside terminal with no one waiting for them, because it's the wrong terminal.

It causes them to have to go around, get to the domestic terminal, go back through security, and it can be very stressful for the students, so we try to always provide as clear directions as we can. I, personally, on a recent trip actually filmed a video walking through Atlanta and up until where the custom signs say stop filming.

But when they come out and then you actually see All right, here's your fork in the road, you have to go this way to transit your flights. Or if your final destination is here, don't go that way. Go this way. So being able to provide those clear directions is key. I just think of me, if I'm flying to this type of airport in a foreign country where I didn't speak the language  very well, I would really need some support just to, just to get from one gate to another gate.
Before COVID really happened airlines were pretty, pretty liberal with gate passes. So if we had students transiting through, we could just walk up to the ticket counter with our ID and say, "Hey, I have these students on this flight. They're going to seven other flights. Help me. Help me. Help you by letting me go through the gate and meet them at their gate, walk them to their connecting gate. That way they don't miss flights. You don't have to rebook them." You know, we don't have, we don't have that hassle, and usually it was never a problem. Now, after COVID, they seem to be pretty tight on that. You have to have official business to go back there. I don't know if that's the airlines or if it's TSA, but, you know, we we kind of have to do most of our groundwork from outside of security.
But overall, you know, just being, being on the ground to provide support, or just even taking a whatsapp video call, like, Alright, let me see what you're seeing. Okay, no, you're going the wrong way. You need to go that way. So those type of situations.

Kate   
So a gate pass, pretty much is a pass for somebody who is not flying to be able to get through security. And, you know, walk around, not loiter. But, you know, walk around. They have a purpose. They have to explain themselves. Which when there are, you know, when there's dozens, potentially hundreds, of kids flying through, maybe without a chaperone, frequently without a chaperone, being able to meet somebody at the gate is super, super helpful. It's just sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't.

Kate
How about this hypothetical situation. You have a Chilean student who's flying through Dallas, on their way to Saint Louis. Their first flight was delayed out of Chile, and they miss their connection to St Louis. They're now stuck in Dallas. What do you do?

Fevzi
The urgent part is to get a new flight for that student. So I urge them to go ahead and go to the closest airline ticketing booth and see if they can secure a new flight for themselves. If not, I tell them to come out, because 99% of the time I cannot go behind security. So I tell them to come out the security and we go to the ticketing booth together, and I book another flight for them, and then they go back in and take their flight.

If they had to stay overnight. You know, we help them out. We find a hotel, we stay with them, and so forth. But generally, we can, you know, they can arrange for another flight behind the security, and I don't have to get involved much, just over the phone, helping them out. We let AFS travel department in New York know about the issues, and we let them know. I make the student take a picture of the new ticket, and I share that with the New York office, and they contact the host family, because I generally don't have the information for the host family and let the host family know that the student will will be delayed, will be coming on a different flight.
If there are issues, I tell them to come out.

Fevzi
We go to the ticketing desk together, and I play the heart strings. I say, this is an exchange student. She's all scared. Can you just find a way to make this happen? So they generally help out when they find out that it's an exchange student, a young kid traveling alone, and I'm just a volunteer trying to make things happen for them, travel agents generally find a way to make sure the kid goes to their destination.

Kate
If you’re an active AFS volunteer who wants to get involved with student Arrivals or Departures, what can you expect?

Fevzi
We have the students contact information a week or so before they travel. And I have a rough idea of who will be traveling, what time they will be coming. I ask our volunteers to take on couple of students, two, sometimes three students. And that's their responsibility, to communicate with them using WhatsApp. And then we have a volunteer at the airport that will help out if there is need to be, you know, to interact personally. So these volunteers can stay at home and do their cooking cleaning, do their house chores, watch their TV, but at the same time, communicate with these kids when they're coming, when they land, where to go, what to do, and if there's an issue, they let me know while I'm at the airport, then I get involved.
So it's much easier. We don't really have to have many people at the airport, and finding volunteers is much easier, because they can do this while they're doing other stuff. They don't have to really commit three hours at the airport like we used to ask them to do. It's working out much better, actually.

Tyler
I agree with Fevzi, it's, it's been, it's, it's a lot more streamlined now that it is, now that we have the through ticketing.
On-call is definitely the way to go, because it's one of the easier volunteer jobs you can, you know, be watching TV and your phone buzzes. Just all we ask is you have your phone, you know, handy where you can access it if a kid needs to get in touch with you. But a lot of times, it's just relaying communication like, hey, this kid just messaged me their flight. They're on the tarmac right now, but the pilot says they're, you know, 18th in line for takeoff. Yeah, that happens in Atlanta a lot. So, you know, we try to then get in contact with whoever's at the next airport, if they're making another connection, and say, Alright, well, this, this one's coming in hot. Okay, they've got 16 minutes to get from the seat of this flight to the seat of the next flight. So usually, at that kind of instance, that's when we do try to get a volunteer at that airport that can beg for a gate pass and literally, with the running shoes, be ready to greet that student and run them to the next gate.

Kate 
It's great. And it's also, you know, I think some volunteers hesitate to become more involved in AFS because it's a time commitment, or there's meetings every month, every couple weeks, you could. Be on call, all this stuff, but something like travel, it's generally really condensed time, but it's just a couple periods during the year, right?

Tyler 
Usually, we do sometimes have students that we’ll have to go help out. That they, for whatever reason, need to leave early or end their program. Sometimes just the temporary off program, if it's an event where they get an exception for. But yeah, there are, there are things that come up, and those are usually pretty short notice. We'll get an email like, hey, we have a student coming through tomorrow.  Is anyone available to be on call? We had one instance where there was a flight diversion. It was a kid that was not on our radar at all, flying to Florida, and they ended up stopping in Atlanta. They're like, this is as far as we can go before we hit this storm, and so we had to quickly jump in and run. Nobody was planning on picking up a kid from Atlanta. So those, those do come up as well, but it's a good shot of adrenaline when that email hits!

Kate
Why do you enjoy the Travel Volunteer role?

Fevzi
I think it's the most fun and active job with AFS volunteering. Arrivals especially, everybody is so happy and is cheerful. Everybody is excited. Departures, on the other hand, is kind of depressing. We are all crying. Some parents don't even want to stay at the airport. They bring the kid over. Here's the student, please handle the rest, and they leave right away. They don't want the tears flowing in public. But like I said, it's the first impression we give for the kids, and we get to meet them. They're all very excited. It's, I think, the most rewarding positions you can have volunteering with AFS.

Kate
Who is the Travel Volunteer role good for?

Tyler
It's good for people that are that love logistics, love going through spreadsheets, aligning flights and but it's not a role that requires you to constantly be at the airport, which I think a lot of that seems to be a misconception.
It's great to just have somebody, Hey, I'm an accountant, or I work a lot with Excel. I'll take this spreadsheet, analyze it, make some separate sheets of All right, here's the flights coming in this terminal. Here's the flights coming in this terminal, and that way, you know, disseminate those to all the people.
Or like, All right, I was a cross country runner in high school. You got a kid that needs to get somewhere quick? I'll meet him at the gate and run him across the airport. So there's roles in the travel department for everyone.

Kate
Now, as anyone who has ever spent time in an airport knows, even the best-laid plans require a little bit of... creative flexibility. One of the things I admire most about this work is that our staff and volunteers are always prepared for things not to go as planned. They know how to think on their feet. To close this episode, let’s hear two examples of just that. 

[Airport noises]

Fevzi    
It was a bad weather event in Dallas and they shut down DFW airport. 
I get a call. We have two students whose flights get canceled, and it will be next day, so they have to overnight it. And then 10-15 minutes later, three more students, and we ended up with eight students stranded at the DFW airport. 
I had everybody, you know, we were communicating with the students, everybody, except for one student. It's like 1030 at night, there is no word from her. She hasn't called AFS New York office. She didn't contact me. We kept we kept texting her. No replies from her. 

The American Airlines terminal is like a big stadium. The ticketing area is huge and it's packed every there is no room to move around. So loud inside, it's like a major game going on. It's just impossible to find anyone. 

We found our way to the ticketing office, and we talked to the supervisor, explained that we lost the student somewhere behind the gates. I said, Can we page her? She says, Well, let's just give some time and we'll, you know, look for her and whatnot. 

And so finally, I'm with another volunteer. She's younger than me. Everybody is younger than me anyway. But she says, Do you mind if I step on the scale here? And you know, talk? 

The supervisor says, Sure. So she stepped on couple of things. And she screams, Excuse me, everyone! And suddenly, the entire building not a sound. Everybody is so quiet. They are hoping to hear good news, because everybody is stuck there. And she goes, is there? So and so here Ms. So and So, are you here? No response. 

Turns out she was waiting for us at the gate, and so finally, by 11 o'clock, we collected her. I called couple of other volunteers to come help eight students. There was no way we could have fitted in my car, and I have a you know, she's with me. We drove together anyway. So I had two more volunteers came. One of them with a pickup truck. We put all their luggage in the pickup truck, put the students in the cars, found the hotel and checked them in. It was like one o'clock in the morning when they finally checked into the hotel. That was an adventure.

[Wind noises]

Tyler   
We call it the New York tornado of 2018.
This was before through ticketing. I just saw your face. I was there. So all the students came through New York, and I didn't realize New York got tornadoes or but it was a very, very extremely bad storm that basically grounded all of the flights.
It’s interesting because I was not part of the travel team, then. I was actually a host parent.

We saw his flight had departed the gate, and so that was our indication to leave, because we're an hour from the airport.

That means it's backed up from the gate. That doesn't necessarily mean it's in flight, it has taken off.

So we get to the airport, I stop, I park the car, look down at my phone, and it still just says that the flights on the ground. And so I'm like, Oh, okay. And so our student, who was trapped on the airplane on the tarmac, had no service, no way of communicating, did not have international data plan at the time. The Wi Fi on the plane wasn't turned on. He couldn't tell us anything.

So went up to the Delta counter, like, oh, yeah, nothing's going out of New York right now. Well, obviously, you know, that was a fun night for him, because there was I think, 800 students in New York. I was just amazed that he was able to be in a physical hotel building with, you know, literally everybody that was flying through New York, you know, not being able to do that.

I think that was the last year before through ticketing started, or one of the last years. Because, yeah, it definitely made things a lot easier. So when one airport goes down, it does not disrupt 800 students. But yeah, that was mine, even though it doesn't really involve me too much. But yeah, he made some memories that night. I'll say that.

Kate
You know… how are teenagers supposed to start their exchange experience if they can't find their way through Dallas airport? Or come out at the wrong terminal in Atlanta and are just stuck there in the heat? Volunteers like Fevzi and Tyler help participants start their program off on the right foot. Even if they encounter a travel hiccup, there will be someone on the phone- or running through the airport- to help them get to where they need to be.

Kate
So thank you guys, both for all the work that you do to support these students and to support other volunteers who are getting involved in travel through your work with the Travel Advisory Group. So thank you both so much for taking the time to chat with me this evening.

Fevzi
Thank you, Kate.

Tyler
Thank you Kate.

[Music] 

Kate
That was Fevzi Caglarsu from the Dallas Area Team, and Tyler Henry from the Georgia Area Team. They are both members of the Travel Advisory Group, where they use their years of expertise to support AFS operations on the national level.

But… you don’t need to be an expert in order to get involved! While it’s helpful to know your way around an airport, it is by no means a requirement. Our Travel staff has built a full library of training materials to make sure every volunteer is equipped to handle the logistics, the logic, and the occasional curveball. There are also live calls before any major travel event.

Interested? Reach out to your team leadership or send an email to afshosttravel@afsusa.org. And remember- even if you don't live near a major hub like Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, every team with a student needs travel support. As Fevzi and Tyler mentioned, so much of this work can now be done with a smartphone right from your couch.

In next month’s episode, we’re continuing our focus on the people who make these experiences possible: our volunteers! We’ll be diving into the Liaison role- the local coordinator who serves as the primary point of contact and support for an exchange student throughout their time on program. It is a role that's all about building relationships and navigating the day-to-day journey of exchange, so keep an eye out for that one!

Kate
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