We are two women international students from the Global South, situated in Turkey and the U.S. respectively. In this article, we utilize autoethnography to critically reflect on our intellectual, emotional, linguistic, and cultural growth during a virtual exchange program that we participated in during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this co-exploration, we re-reflect on and analyze our experiences as participants in a COIL program to consider, more broadly, the evolution and trajectory of virtual mobility in an uneven knowledge landscape. Collectively, we improved our English language skills through our exchange, while simultaneously resisting a deficit orientation of English language learning. We also expanded our epistemic and discursive horizons, learning about the vibrant and thriving cultural traditions, thought traditions, and religious/spiritual traditions of Turkmenistan and India, our home countries. Through technologies such as Zoom and WhatsApp, we discovered each other's personalities and backgrounds, centering sisterhood along the way. We framed our analysis through a critical internationalization perspective, delineating the challenges and limitations of virtual exchanges and arguing for equitable, transformative exchanges that honor southern epistemologies.