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Katie Wilson
The Clackamas Print
Second-year Spanish students at
Clackamas Community College
had an opportunity to test their
wings last Wednesday.
Room 108B in the Gregory
Forum was crowded with people
Wednesday morning: students, fac
ulty and about 15 retired teachers
from Costa Rica all laughing and
speaking Spanish.
The Costa Rican teachers each
introduced themselves in Spanish
and explained about the provinces
they had grown up in. Many told
the students that they were wel
come to their homes if ever seized
by the urge to visit.
“Everybody
understand?”
Foreign Language Department
Head and Spanish Instructor Irma
Bjerre asked her students in
English. “Yes? Good, guys!”
The teachers sang the Costa
Rican national anthem and then
broke up to work with the stu
dents present. They had brought
with them maps of their country,
coins and flags. The students
got a chance to try out their
Spanish on native Spanish
speakers who encouraged ques
tions and conversation.
After introductions and the con
versation time, one Costa Rican
teacher stood up and talked about
the importance of hugs. “You need
Katie Wilson Clackamas Print
Language students practiced their Spanish-speaking skills with retired Costa
Rican teachers visiting Clackamas as part of an annual exchange program that
was established during the Kennedy administration in 1963.
four hugs a day to survive,” she told
her audience.
Next was dancing. Bjerre turned
on some fast paced music and near
ly everyone took to the floor, some
more reluctantly than others.
Bjerre loves sharing this experi
ence with her Spanish students.
“It’s so great for them to be
able to talk with native speakers,”
she said.
The students, in general, seem
to agree.
“It was awesome,” said student
Bryan Goff “It was great to hear
about the culture.”
This event in Gregory Forum
occurs annually as part of an
exchange program between Costa
Rica and Oregon that began back in
1963. According to www.part-
ners.net (the official site of the pro
gram) President John F. Kennedy
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people alliance off
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Students find compromise to controversy with 'Measure
Students promote
‘One Man, Two
Women’ by selling
t-shirts for made-up
measure, “36.5”
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As controversy turns about
measure 36, two 18-year-old
Clackamas students, Brandon
Zornado and Colin Campbell, have
brought humor to the measure
through their “36.5” t-shirts.
The shirts say “Vote Yes on
36.5” on the front, and the back dis
plays “One Man, Two Women.” It
also has a picture of a male body-
builder with two women in bikinis Zomado’s compu
standing next to him.
They’ve sold about
“It was my idea; make sure that at $10 each.
gets in the paper,” said Campbell,
“We really need
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me,”’
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t-shirt entrepreneur
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Zornado, “but there was one girl mail.com.
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