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WORLD AT magine being transported to another country alone for
a year. Then try to study in a language other than your
Z S native tongue and make friends at the same time.
Johnny Crook (Southeast London, England), Katrin
Gruetzmacher (Worpswede, Germany), Juliana San-
dow (Berlin, Germany), and Saida Ismailova
Clockwise from bottom: Katrin's (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) are doing just that as exchange
favorite ice cream parlor
Dolomiti's:Juliana and her students at ZHS from all across the world.
friend wear silly costumes and - - You might wonder what the differences would be if you
distribute candy to schoolmates
as a part of a tenth grade . went to another country; while we may think that they
graduation-like friends
a ceremony: would stand out you would be surprised at what our
Juliana and her enjoy a rP
sunny day at a park in Berlin: exchange students found. Both Katrin and Johnny saw
Saida and her friends dress up
just for fun: Saida stands in / a major cultural difference in how much school spirit
front of Ulugbek's Medresseh: ;
Boo! It's Johnny's little brother Q we have in the United States, while Saida saw Amer-
Charlie: Johnny and his friends icans with more individual freedom and Judy noticed
say cheese at a London Pub:
Katrin and her friends vacation the lack of class consciousness we have in our school.
at the beach x in g Germany:Our As Americans itgoes without saying that we like to
exchange students show Y g
patriotism for their temporary hear what we are doing right. When we asked the
homeland.
,� •� exchange students what they liked most about the US
we got answers like technological advancements, low
• driving age, friendly people and even the English lan-
guage itself.
Although our exchange students seem to like America,
they of course miss their countries as well. Unani-
mously, they first and foremost miss their families and
f friends, but they miss cultural aspects as well. Saida
missed,"Uzbek, Russian or Korean dishes that were
really cooked, not `dissolved' or `microwaved'," while
Katrin missed an ice cream parlour called Dolomiti's
'*^ where she spent time with her friends in Germany.
Juliana and Johnny missed spending weekends with
their friends at nightclubs.
Despite the few things they miss, they seem to be
having a good time with us while they are in the states.
We can learn a lot from having them here and we
appreciate the cultural diversity that they bring to our
student body. — Mia Billetdeaux
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