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Foreign exchange students experience culture shock
a L exi & A shley W elp _________
Staff Reporters
Seven foreign exchange
students have traveled across
the world to experience a
new culture in West Linn.
While six students are
staying for the entire school
year, Megumi Katashiro,
from Japan will stay only a
month.
While here, they want
to improve their English
and make new friends.
( The exchange students
from Germany are from the
same city; but they traveled
separately and had no idea
the other would be here.)
Age: 16
Grade: Junior
Hometown: Labaule, France
Host Family: Van Gordon
Home Family: Rialland lives in
Labaule with her parents and
little sister who is 14. She also
has two cats.
Favorite Food: French cheese
Favorite Music: Rock
Favorite Movie: "Lost in
Translation "
Hometown School: Saint Louis
Size of school: On average
there are 100 students
attending Saint Louis. "It is
very small," Railland said.
View on America before
arrival: "Fast food." There was
a stereotype in France that
Americans were really fat.
However "I don't think that
anymore," Rialland said since
her arrival in Oregon.
Pastimes in West Linn:
Rialland likes to shop, play
soccer, and she has visited
Starbucks with her host family.
"I am a Thespian and I love
theatre," Rialland said.
Age: 15
Grade: In her hometown,
Lavsus, is a sophomore; in
America she is a junior.
Hometown: Zaporizhzhya,
Ukraine
Host Family: Olson
Host Student: Julie,
sophomore
Home Family: Lavsus lives
with her parents in Ukraine
and she has an older brother
who is 23.
Favorite Food: She like
different salads and also likes
to eat pizza.
Hometown School: Lyceun
Number 99
Size of School: Like West
Linn, Lavsus's school has 1500
students.
View on America before
Arrival: Ukraine has different
stereotypes for Americans,
like people are out of shape
and lazy, maybe even a little
spoiled. Lavsus loves America
so far though.
Pastimes in West Linn: Lavsus
has already gone boating on
the Willamette with her host
family, and she "really likes the
rain," mountains and climate
of West Linn and Oregon.
Age:16
Grade: Junior
Hometown: Stuttgart;
Germany
Host Family: Betts
Home Family: Bruemmel lives
in Stuttgart with his parents
and two older brothers.
Favorite Food: Tacos
Favorite Movie: "I, Robot"
Hometown School: Nechar-
realschule
Size of school: About 600
students
Things Bruemmel wants to
take away from America: "An
iPod," he said. He prefers a
nano.
Pastimes in West Linn:
Bruemmel likes to hang out
with his friends that he has met
since his arrival in America.
Age: 15
Grade: Junior in West Linn; in
South Korea, however, Jung is
actually in middle school.
Hometown: Seoul Korea;
South Korea
Host Family: Guy
Home Family: Jung has one
sister and a brother in Seoul,
and she lives with her parents.
Favorite Food: Kimchi, which
is a Korean traditional dish.
Favorite Show: Jung likes
to watch dramas; mostly
Japanese.
Favorite Music: Jung likes to
listen to Japanese musi:
Hometown school: Sindong
Size of school: Approximately
1,000 students
Fears about coming to
America: "That I can't talk with
others," Jung said. She started
taking English when she was
seven years old.
Pastimes in West Linn:
"Sleep," Jung said. She likes to
get as much of it as possible.
Age: 16, but in one month she
will be 17
Grade: Junior
Hometown: Stuttgart,
Germany
Host Family: Van Alderwerelt
Host Student: Marleigh,
sophomore
Home Family: Scheiner lives
with her 19 year old brother
and her parents in Germany.
Favorite Food: Nutella
Favorite Movie: "Cammbock"
(It's German.)
Hometown School:
Schickhardt-Gymnasium
Size of school: 1900 students.
Fear of coming to America:"
That I would lose my friends
in Germany; and I wouldn't be
accepted," Scheiner said.
Pastimes in West Linn:
Scheiner has already gone to
Pacific City twice with her host
family. She also enjoys West
Linn's climate and weather.
Age: 16, but she will be 17 in
December
Grade: Junior
Home Country: Japan
Host Family: Baldwin
Home Family: Katashiro lives
with her parents in Japan and
she has an older brother.
Favorite Food: Hamburgers.
"The hamburgers are really
big," Katashiro said.
Favorite Thing to do in Japan:
Katashiro likes to ride her bike
and shop.
Hometown School: Minaitama
High School.
Cool fact about school: They
have eight required classes and
they don't move their teachers
come to them. So they stay
with the same students all day.
Hardest part of Day: She says
its really hard to just listen all
day and she sometimes gets
headaches at the end of the
day.
Pastimes in West Linn:
Katashiro likes to listen to
music and take walks. "It's
really pretty here."
Age: Rognlien is 16 and will
be 17 in December.
Grade: Senior
Home Town: Rognlien lives
right outside Oslo
Host Family: Hopkinson
Host Student:Ariane, junior
Home Family: Rognlien
Favorite Food: Tacos and
ice cream. "All the foods are
much bigger here," Rognlien
said.
Home Town School: Valler
Vid eregaende Skole
Size of school: About 600
students which is average for
Norway.
Reason for coming to
A m erica: " Tired of Norw ay,
After a year nothing
happens."
Pastimes: Rognlien went
rafting at the end of summer
in Idaho, and then spent two
weeks in Boston with her host
family.
All photos by Hannah Zaayer
Yearbook features end of year events, activities
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■ V alqrie W allace ___________
Staff Reporter
Acting in a school play,
competing in sports or joining
a social cause club are high
school experiences not to be
forgotten. Recording memories
and serving as a historical
record are the main purposes
of printing a yearbook.
Students and parents often
ask the question, "why don't
we receive our yearbooks until
the following school year?"
"What if Ryan Barnes
[senior] grows up to play for
the Yankees, and you go to
find him in the yearbook—he's
not there," Glenn Krake,
adviser.
Incorporating the spring
sports and events is something
that the editor-in-chief, Kellie
Trafton, senior, and Krake see
as an important attribute.
"If we wanted to get
our books at the end of the
year, because of the printing
process, we wouldn't be
able to cover anything after
February," Krake added.
In a student poll taken
several years ago, the majority
said they would rather receive
the book in the fall than to
leave out spring events.
What are the options
for a spring delivery date?
Supplements, additions to the
yearbook that cover the spring
term, can be printed and
k. '
Lucas Pinelli and Darren Bilbao,
seniors, pick up yearbooks during
lunch. In order to cover the end of
the school events like Prom and
sports, the annual is in the fall.
Photo by Zach Eaton
picked up at the start of the
new school year.
Krake, who has been a
yearbook adviser for one year
at WLHS and was previously
an adviser for two years in
Texas, said that the true nature
of supplements is to give the
people who were participants
of the spring activities a fair
chance of being part of the
memory, but they often don't
work out that way. Most
students forget to pick them
up, or just don't care enough
to go through the trouble.
Having experience in the
process, Krake believes that
students would really miss the
spring section and seeing their
friends as part of the memoir.
The "TH[INK]" theme of
the 07-08 school year was
created in a new format so that
on each page you can observe
anything from musical arts
to volleyball, but designated
sections for seasonal activities
or academics are not present.
Krake said it is meant to be
read like a book and you may
even find out something new
about the school.
This year's book will feature
six iconic social causes spread
throughout. The yearbook
will continue to come out at
the beginning of the following
academic year and student
comments or questions are
always welcome.