The 2024 alumni picnic on August 7 was a great chance for our alumni to connect with old friends and teachers. Alumni in attendance ranged from our most recent graduates, the Class of 2024, going back to the Class of 2018, many of whom are starting their junior year of college. Of course, no FBRA […]
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FBRA’s Class of 2020 Alumni Gather to Reflect on their time at FBRA On, May 21, 2024, we invited the Class of 2020 to come out and reminisce about the good old middle-school days of French Broad River Academy. After hearing these soon-to-graduate-from-high-school young men and women reflect on their time at FBRA, we can
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I’ve had a fascination with traveling for as long as I can remember. Going to Costa Rica with FBRA is most likely what started it though. I met new people each year and lived with different families, which gave me a chance to see their different ways of living. FBRA pushed me out of my comfort zone for the three years that I attended. Many of my teachers repeated the phrase, “You can do hard things,” and although it was repetitive then, I still repeat it sometimes. Because of the time I spent with host families in Costa Rica, I wasn’t nervous about living with a Finnish host family.
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