I take abroads to the former Yugoslavia—just three of the six countries it became—to give students the time and space to experience the internal awakening that comes when they learn some of the language of and read stories by and about people they are surprised they can relate to and who in many cases experienced unthinkable change and loss as their countries came into being. In return, I expect students to bring curiosity, empathy, and intention as strategies to put into play when they meet these people whose countries are less than 30 years old but who have a multi-layered histories, cultures, languages, and landscapes. Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia are complicated; and it should be clear to us all that “complicated” is a concept we should bother to figure out. What better way to do that than explore these spaces and cultures and people as students?