After a six week stay at Northeast community college, 22 Danish students made the trip back home to Denmark last weekend.

However, their time here served as a valuable learning experience.

Mathias Jensen, one of the students, explained exactly what the trip was about.

"We are here to know the culture, so we live with students and we experienced how the school system functions and how the students operate.”

However the lessons for the students weren't limited to inside the classroom.

"We have been on some trips out of state, we have been to Mount Rushmore, and to Kearney to visit buckle and the archway,” Jensen said.

But of the three it was the national monument that was the favorite.

"(My favorite) would be Mount Rushmore, seeing a fine national tribute was a very good experience,” he said.

Ole Boendergraad, the professor that accompanied the students to America, agrees that seeing Mount Rushmore was a great experience, but perhaps the overall immersion in American culture was the most valuable.

"I think the best experience here has been the trip to Mount Rushmore, that was one of the things on my bucket list that I hadn't seen in the U.S. before,” Boendergraad said.

“But I think many of the students also liked that. And also it has been a great experience for them living with the American students and making friends with them and seeing how everything works."

Brian Anderson, an instructor at Northeast Community College believes that it wasn't just the Danish students that benefited from the trip.

“This has been an absolutely extraordinary experience, not only for them, but for our students as well,” Anderson said.

“With the danish students, there are just leads to extra questions of 'how is it there compared to how it is here.' so not only do they get a cross cultural experience, but our students do to."

It is an experience that has reached across any cultural differences and formed friendships that may see some of the students, including Jensen, coming back.

"I have been invited back here, by who i live with, they have actually bought a house in Norfolk and they want me to come back if I can,” said Jensen.