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Take the time to explore the world around U.S.
By Andrew Patterson | September 23Most of you reading this have been to Charlotte. It is 141 miles from Chapel Hill, roughly a two- hour drive going slightly faster than the speed limit. Now imagine that when you arrived, you discovered that the average salary of an adult was $16 a month. Ninety-five percent of all businesses were government-run. And outside half of the houses were busts of George Washington and the painted slogan, "Long Live George W. Bush." Now you'll begin to understand how different life was for me during the four months I spent in Havana, Cuba, last semester.
