schools
november6
2014
Meet the Exchange Students: Part 3
Tomy Breton- Tomy is from Quebec,
Canada and is spending his year in Ver-
nonia living with Tim, Allison and Can-
on McLeod. Tomy is a hockey player in
Canada, but is playing football this fall
for the Loggers where he is a running
back and outside linebacker. In Canada
he plays hockey and is friends with Sam
Hout, who was an exchange student in
Vernonia last year. He says he will try
either basketball or wresting in the win-
ter and baseball in the spring. A senior,
Tomy says he is taking this year to de-
cide what he wants to do in his future,
but says he may study natural sciences
in college. This is Tomy’s first time in
the United States, but has traveled to
Mexico, the Dominican Republic and to
Europe for two weeks for a hockey tour-
nament.
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from the big city of Prague. “Everyone
knows everyone,” says Marketa. “When
you are walking on the street, someone
will just stop and start talking to you.
It’s really cool!”
Nathalie Scholz- Nathalie is living
with Nicole Whiteman in Vernonia.
She is from a small village in central
Germany. Nathalie has been a big part
of the Lady Loggers district champion
volleyball team as a middle blocker, and
says she will try basketball this winter
and softball in the spring. She says
American burgers are her favorite food
here, especially at Red Robin. Nathalie
has previously traveled to Greece, Spain,
France, Switzerland and Denmark. This
is her first time in the United States. A
junior this year, she says she will return
to Germany to finish high school and
then attend university to study fashion.
Nathalie says she really likes Vernonia
L to R: Tomy Breton, Marketa Veselkova, Nathalie Scholz,
Oleksandra Romanchuk (back) and Nikita Osiyev.
because it is a little village where it is
easy to meet friends. She says she in northwest Russia. Nikita is running visited Greece he spent time with a chef
especially likes Vernonia’s downtown cross country. He is also very interested learning to cook traditional Greek foods,
with its coffee shops and restaurants.
in music. In Russia he plays guitar in and also met with Spanish musicians
his own rock band and is playing drums while visiting Spain this past summer
Oleksandra Romanchuk- “Sandra” is in the VHS band. He is also interested and played a concert with them.
from Ukraine near the border of Poland in theater and has directed a musical in
and is living with the Rethwill family. Russia and is continuing to write and A correction: In our October 16, 2014
She is a cheerleader this year who says record music while here in the United issue, in the article titled “Meet the Ex-
she is trying to avoid eating junk food, States. Nikita says one of his other pas- change Students:Part 2” on page 14, we
“...because it is unhealthy.” She enjoys sions is cooking. He also loves to travel incorrectly stated that Julie Courchet
cooking Ukrainian foods and has been and has visited Spain, France, Italy, Ger- was running cross country for Vernonia
preparing them for her host family here many, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey High School. Julie was only working
in Vernonia so they can get to know her and Egypt. He says when he travels he out with the team and did not run com-
culture better and so she can still eat her really likes to experience the culture and petitively for the VHS squad. Vernonia’s
favorite Ukrainian foods. A senior, San- have an interesting experience- when he Voice regrets this error.
dra has been singing since she was six
years old and would like to return to the
United States to pursue a professional
singing career. She was previously an
exchange student in Poland and this is
her first visit to the States.
Marketa Veselkova- Marketa is from
Prague, Czech Republic. Her older
sister Helena was an exchange student
in Vernonia two years ago. A junior,
Marketa is spending this year with
the Lindauer family. She is running
cross country and finished second for
the Lady Loggers when they won the
league championship this year. She is
an accomplished basketball player in her
home country and will be a nice addition
to the VHS varsity this winter. She says
she will probably run track in the spring.
She says there is so much good food here,
she couldn’t choose a favorite. Marketa
says she has traveled extensively in
Europe; some of her favorite places were
Rome and Valencia. She also visited the
U.S. twice before, once to New York
when she was very young and then a
few years ago when she visited San
Francisco and Las Vegas. Marketa says
it would be “really amazing” if she could
come back to America for her senior
year and then try to go to college here
in the States. She says she loves it here Nikita Osiyev- Nikita is living with the
in Vernonia because it is very different Cheney family and is from Ukhta, a city
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