Foreign student exchanges are a common activity across all WA language programs. Just this week, new Spanish exchange students have arrived for their two-week stay. What is so unique about four specific exchange students, is that they chose to have an extended stay. On Aug. 23, long-term exchange...

After having their trip to Spain canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19, Westford Academy's Spanish foreign exchange program is set to run again in 2022 and 2023. The Spanish exchange program consists of two parts to the full experience. A group of Spanish students will first visit WA in September 2022,...

For the first time in the forty-two years of the exchange, the Americans will be visiting Germany before the Germans travel to America, due to COVID. Applications for the 2022 German Exchange Program opened on Monday, Feb. 1, allowing freshmen and sophomore students to start applying for the upcoming...

Junior Reicela Petravica is the only Latvian exchange student here at WA, and will be spending an entire year here. Petravica transferred in partnership with the AFS intercultural program, a program used to send students abroad, and chose to apply to the US. "I chose the States because I wanted to...

Sophomore Anna Roetzer has an insatiable hunger for new experiences, and it is that adventuring nature that brought her from Langquaid, Germany to Westford Academy for the 2016-2017 school year. The idea of a yearlong exchange is not new to Roetzer; she has been considering studying abroad since 8th...

A world traveler at just seventeen years old, Cecilia Versari has come to Westford Academy from Italy to experience what life is like as an American. For the 2017-2018 school year, Versari is a new addition to WA’s junior class. Cultured, intelligent, and charming, Versari spoke eloquently about life...

High school students from Beijing, China have been given the opportunity to live the life of a typical American teenager for three weeks. Arriving on January 28, these students are assimilating to Westford Academy’s culture and getting a taste of life in the United States. Their time at WA has not...

Tim Curran is a 7th-grade history teacher from Stony Brook Middle School who is piloting an exchange program with Amanda Everett, a history teacher at Westford Academy. The program was created by the head of the history department, Libby Porter,  in an attempt to bridge the gap between the middle and...

By Brad Jones Staff Writer Earlier this summer, junior Chiaro Peters made the trip from Germany to Westford to spend the year as part of the foreign exchange program. Although he has only been here for a limited time, he has been greeted very warmly by the students and faculty here at WA. "Everyone...

By Kai-Lou Yue and Victoria Walker Co-Business Managers In the last week, students may have noticed a few less people in their classes at Westford Academy and a lack of sudden bursts of German in the halls. After three weeks of slipping in and out of classes, visiting American attractions and living...