German students explore Alaska through summer Rotary exchange

Sisters Svea and Vilja Zahnke, and Jillian went on a glacier tour near Petersburg. (Photo courtesy of Bridget Wittstock)
One Petersburg high school student spent part of her summer in Germany this year.
She then brought a few German students back to Alaska. The girls explored each others cultures and took a chance on traveling through a Rotary short term exchange program.
Vilja and Svea Zahnke knew they wanted to come to Alaska for years.
“On TV they saw a documentary about Alask