“It was probably like every other school day on this planet. Starts way to early in the morning, ends way too late in the afternoon, and between that you and your friends try to not fall asleep in countless boring classes," says Felix Garcia who went to Berthold-Brecht_Schule in Darmstadt, Germany.

Out of the things I expected upon going to my hometown in the Philippines, to be dragged to the market by my family to see a man chop a cow’s tongue, or dila, out of its head, was not one of them. Here...