Wednesday, June 24, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Exchange student enjoyed Sisters
By ceili cornelius
Correspondent
Max Kahnt came to Sisters
for a whole school year at
Sisters High School as part of
the foreign-exchange program.
Kahnt said that he decided
to come to America because
he wanted to see America
based on what he saw in the
movies.
“I would see movies with
America as the setting and
would say to myself that’s
a place I want to see and I
wanted to see it for myself,”
he said.
He said that he had done
foreign-exchange programs in
other places like Poland, and
he said, ‘Why not come to
America?”
He had never heard of
Oregon until the program told
him he was coming to Sisters.
Max said that the school
system here is a lot more lax
and free than it is in Germany.
He said that Sisters schools
offer more classes, and way
more classes that are geared
toward student interests.
“I took woods class and
that was definitely my favor-
ite class I took here,” Kahnt
said. Max also talked about
how much he enjoyed play-
ing football and lacrosse. Max
said that in Germany sports
aren’t as huge as they are here.
He said football was his favor-
ite sport to play and to watch.
Max played defensive tackle
on the Outlaws team this past
fall.
Kahnt stayed with the
Hudson family of Sisters and
he said he couldn’t have all
the experiences here without
photo by Jerry baldoCk
Max Kahnt had no expectations — and he enjoyed Sisters immensely.
them. He said that the thing
that he enjoyed the most
about Sisters was the view of
the mountains that he got to
see every morning and every
night from outside his win-
dow in the Hudson home. He
also enjoyed the very tight-
knit community feel and the
culture that exists here. He
said he made a lot of lifelong
friends here and plans to come
visit them in the future.
The Nugget asked Kahnt
what surprised him about
Sisters. The student’s approach
to his adventure meant that
in a sense everything and
nothing was a surprise.
“One of my friends from
Germany did a foreign-
exchange program and he
told me to not come with any
expectations and just to let
everything come,” he said. “I
really tried to not have expec-
tations; I wasn’t surprised by
anything because every single
thing was something new and
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surprising.”
When Max goes back to
Germany he has two more
years of high school, and he
will then move on to medical
school. He wants to go into
the medical field and become
a surgeon.
Radio operators set
to break records
Hundreds of amateur radio
operators will work ’round
the clock this weekend to set
up field radio communication
stations, get on the air, and
contact thousands of other
operators in the U.S. and
Canada as part of participation
in the American Radio Relay
League’s annual Field Day.
According to Don
Shurtleff, Field Day is the
annual “shakedown run” for
the ARRL’s National Field
Organization.
“Field Day is a way for
hams to get outdoors and have
fun under some difficult con-
ditions,” Shurtleff said. “But
it’s also a chance to fine-tune
emergency communication
skills. We use generators and
battery power, and we set up
antennas in the field. The idea
is to put together a self-suffi-
cient, working station quickly
and begin making contacts.”
The ARRL Field
Organization has been effec-
tive in establishing emergency
communications nets dur-
ing floods, hurricanes, fires,
earthquakes and other major
disasters. Members of for-
mal emergency organizations
such as the Amateur Radio
Emergency Service (ARES)
and the Radio Amateur
Communication Emergency
Services (RACES) regularly
participate. The League esti-
mates that more than 35,000
hams participate in field day
every year.
The High Desert Amateur
Radio Field Day operations
will be at Creekside Park in
Sisters. The public is invited
on Saturday, June 27, from
11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on
Sunday, June 28, from 8 a.m.
to 11 a.m.
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