PASSPORT
The students scramble out of the class
rooms at Creswells Creslane Elementary
School early I riday afternoon and take oft
in search of South Africa, Nicaragua,
Russia, China and six other countries.
Thembi Myem, a South Atncan graduate student at the University, prepares to play a traditional African game with
elementary students as they grow restless from the day of school at Creslane in Creswell
They've each been given a passport to the world
and have three hours to visit three different coun
tries The young students never netuiilly leave the
school to discover these places They don't have
to
On this dav the world comes to them, courtesy
of the innovative International (fultural Service
I’rogrnm. an eight-year old si holarxhip program .it
the University that provides partial tuition to in
lernution.il students who provide a first-hand
knowledge ot their - mintrv
Them!)! Myem a hl.uk South A In Vs at
the group of ~() white i hddren and isks them !-. i
niuve m i iusi ill- triii her VVI - n tte . !-- m- , »
it they know where her country is 1 e-d
It's on the very bottom of Africa responds
one girl
Yes Mvent says. "And what do v u know
aixiut South A(rtui/'"
where le .. k people iiuue tr.au a hoy
says
It's when, elephants live, another adds
Mvent laughs atui n ds them about si leads and
day care centers m the country she lived in before
coming to L.ugene in July She will return when
she finishes her master's degree in industn d nda
lions
M\e!il tie sings them I song :n XI 1 ' - '
three native .Mm an languages sin speaks She
also teaches them two games that children then
age jday li.ilI a world away
Although she hadn't planned t talk publics
with such young i tuitio n, the conversation drills
m that dhei non as she begins to tell ot her family
Story by Daralyn Trappc
Photos by Sean Poston
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.-n ! PASSPORT Pa ’
Nicaraguan Carlos Castro, a sociology major at
the University, sharps a Mosquito Indian slot)
with a group ol children
(Abovo) University student Philippo Kou/mme writes in Russian the
namos ot third-grader Anthony Boll end fourth-grader Lauron Hager
(Right) University student Yongzhong Lien translates elomontary
students' names into Chinefo.