It is increasingly common to have intercultural encounters in our everyday lives, and we are unable to anticipate and prepare for many of these situations in advance. However, a planned sojourn to another culture provides students of intercultural communication an opportunity to think ahead and prepare themselves mentally and physically to become “foreigners.” Using principles of active learning, this exercise engages students in learning course material for the applied purpose of constructing a detailed travel plan to an unfamiliar country or culture. This semester-long assignment enables students to think critically about intercultural communication competence by applying theories and concepts commonly discussed in intercultural or intergroup communication-related courses to the concrete task of constructing a cross-cultural analysis.