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PreviewTraveling to another country is often a welcome adventure. In this unit, however, we meet people who take up the challenge of leaving home to live in another country. First, we discover the problems faced by teenagers from Brazil who travel to America to study. Next, we read about a young girl on her first train ride across Canada as she travels to her new home. Finally, we meet a woman who learns the meaning of a sunny morning on her first day in a new land. These stories demonstrate how things are not always as easy as they look; the grass is not always greener on the other side.Flight 830.Departure 10:45 p.m.Atfirstglance, this is just another routine flight to LosAngeles, California. Yet for 38 young passengers between fifteen and eighteen years of age, it is the start of a new experience: they will spend 10 months of their lives studying abroad, far from their families.Every year the United States is host to an average of 78,000 foreign high school level students, of which 3,000 are Brazilian. All of them go for the same reasons -- to become fluent in English, complete high school, and understand everything they can about the American way of life. At the end of each semester, aslongas the students pass final exams, American authoritiesgrant a certificate, which is recognized in Brazil.For the majority, the decision to study abroad is taken only after a period of at least six months of careful planning. For me, says seventeen - year - old GloriaMarcato, its more important to learn to speak English and to livethrough this experience than it is to receive a certificate from the American government. Others dreamof continuing on to college. I want to be a conductor, and Ive already chosen the best American music school, specifiesSandroRodrigodeBarros.Things, as they say, are not always so easy. Even young students who planon staying in the United States just long enough to finish two semesters of high school have difficulty finding a host family. Very few arr