VIDEO: For most foreign exchange students, just the opportunity to study abroad and make new friends, perhaps while learning a new language, is exciting enough. And indeed, 17-year-old Linus Weber — following in the footsteps of his mother, Anne Weber, who was a foreign exchange student back when she was his age — would have been happy with that. But if you have a dream, why not go for it? “They ask you to put down your hobbies — your interests,” said Linus Weber, who is a volunteer firefighter back home in Lower Saxony, Germany. “And that’s why I put down that I’m heavily involved in the fire department.” Not a new interest: Weber has been involved in firefighting, in one way or another, since he was 6 years old and in a program for junior firefighters. Weber realized he had a rather specific wish.
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