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Aran O'Day, a senior at Camas High, spent 7 weeks studying Mandarin in Taiwan this summer

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Aran O'Day, a senior at Camas High School, stands outside the Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan, during the summer of 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy of Aran O'Day)

Camas High School senior Aran O’Day fell in love with world languages during a family trip abroad in 2017. O’Day was a middle-schooler then, and had never traveled outside North America.

“I’d been to Canada before, but this was my first trip abroad,” O’Day. “We went to Russia and seeing (Russian printed) on all the signs was really different. It kind of drew me into language.”

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