This month The Language Teacher turns to study abroad, a topic of wide-spread interest in our academic community as more and more schools in Japan facilitate programs that allow their students to earn some of their course credits overseas. Although high schools have begun to introduce group study abroad programs, too, colleges and universities have led the way so far. With this in mind, we have chosen to focus primarily on study abroad programs and situations experienced by college and university students. Our authors demonstrate how various colleges anticipate and buffer the "disruption" Brown mentions, and point out ways to ease the cultural adjustment process before, during, and after the study abroad experience, thereby assisting development of the self- and cultural awareness necessary to "participate sensitively...[in] the center of someone else's world."