By Sullivan Bortner, Duke Sports Information
DURHAM, N.C. – Last fall, Griffin Carter landed in Madrid, Spain, fresh off a 15-hour flight from the United States. As he made his way to the address of his host family, the place he would learn to call home for three months to follow, he was both tired and excited.
The tiredness came from the flight; the excitement from the beginning of an unknown adventure. When his new host family greeted him, showing no signs of speaking the smallest bit of English, a drained Carter briefly questioned himself.