This document is a conversation between Raissa Mendonca and Felipe de Oliveira about their experiences in the Science Without Borders program. Felipe is from Campinas, Brazil and Raissa is from Recife, Brazil. They discuss how the program pays for their college education in the US for a year. Raissa notes the great infrastructure and facilities at the University of Michigan, which is different than in Brazil. Felipe says the main difference in classrooms between Brazil and Michigan is the length of classes. Raissa feels everyone at the university cares about her success.

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Raissa Mendonca: I am Raissa Mendonca; I am from Recife, Brazil
Felipe de Oliveira: My name is Felipe de Oliveira; I _____________ Campinas, Brazil.
Raissa Mendonca: I am in Science without Borders program.
Felipe de Oliveira: The program Science without Borders is an initiative from the Brazilian government.
Raissa Mendonca: They are _____________ for, you know, like our college education for a year.
Felipe de Oliveira: To _____________ for this program, you must be at a good academic level in your home university.
Raissa Mendonca: We submit all that to the Institute of International Education, and then they kind of take care of that for us
and they apply our material for us. So we don’t know where we were going until they tell us.
Felipe de Oliveira: I knew Michigan was a very cool state. So I was doing some research, I was looking at the website and
_____________ Michigan was one of the best colleges here and has a great program in Biological Sciences.
Raissa Mendonca: It was really great for me to come back to Michigan because I’ve been in the state before in an exchange
program in high school. So it was really great because I’ve had bonds with host families here.
The thing that like struck me the most was the _____________, the facilities here, there are like computer rooms in every
building in this university. Every building you go, you have everything you need there, and that’s really different because in
Brazil sometimes I really struggle to get some things done, because I don’t have it handy as I do here.
Felipe de Oliveira: The main _____________ in classroom in Michigan and Brazil I think is the length of the classes.
Raissa Mendonca: In Brazil, we have a lot more class time than study time.
Felipe de Oliveira: You have the professors, they ask you to read some material before coming to class, so we have to go to
_____________ with some concepts in mind.
Raissa Mendonca: The thing that I _____________ the most is everybody here cares about you, about your success, all the
professors they care, they even know my name. There are classes that have 150 students and they ask me, how are you doing
with your English? Is it okay? Are you doing okay?
Felipe de Oliveira: When I go back to Brazil, the advantages I will have is that I’ll train my English, I’ll also have like formed
a network of new people, new researchers.
Raissa Mendonca: When you are here, you feel like this is your home, this is where you’ve lived and this is where people have
_____________ of you and where you have really made really good bonds with people and professors, and that’s what makes
you want to come back, want to help, want to improve.
qualify - came – found- paying – infrastructure – difference – class – noticed – taken care