"She has spent considerable periods of time in Africa (where she worked with a research project studying elephant communication), China (where she and her family traveled for a month), Switzerland (where she attended school for a semester), Australia (where she became certified as a rescue diver), Mexico (where she has built homes for indigent families in Tijuana), and France (where she has had frequent opportunities to spend time with relatives who live in Paris)."
— From an actual reference letter I wrote in grad school for an actual 19-year-old Harvard student.