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12 - SANDY (Ore ) POST Thur«., Jan 16, 1975 (Sec. 1> Danish s tu d e n t thinks AFS is 'g re a t7 by Nancy Barker Staff Writer Per Jensen, this year's ex change student at Sandy High School, thinks AFS (American Field Service) is “great," and wants to do what he can to help " I really feel sorry for the AFS c lu b ," he declared. “ T h ey’re having hard problems finding a (host) family for next year I sure hope they find one “ With just a trace of Danish accent in his excellent English, Per praised the AFS “ I t ’s a very, very good p ro g ra m ," said the young blond Scandinavian, who is staying with the Glen Carmony family in Sandy, “ with so many things that are good People work hours and hours without being paid " I really appreciate it a lot," he added, and anything I can do to help, I ’ll do." Per is helping out this week, AFS week at Sandy High, and is preparing for the AFS dinner Saturday, Jan 18, where he w ill be a featured speaker He has had some practice at speaking on visits to other schools “ I t ’s all right," he grinned when asked about public speaking “ 1 think I ’m getting better ” He a ttrib u te s his good English to lots of English g ram m ar in his Kroggaard- sskolen" (school) which he attends in Odense, near his home town of Allese. " If you learn gram m ar from the start, you don't make any mistakes.’’ advised Per. " I never felt it was hard to learn English." “ I'm taking a lot of English (w riting) classes here "Fm b etter off speaking than writing— it's not that hard, but I need to work at it. At the end of the year. I hope to be able to write well enough to take a job translating * Languages are his thing, and he would like to make a career of them He has also studied German and French in Den mark A person of firm con victions. Per will be particular about his chosen field. “What I'm trying to do is find some special thing I love to do, and work with it; finances take second row,” he stressed M W could make a lot of money, and “ People work too hard (in still be very unhappy " practice) if things are not From what he has seen, Per exactly r ig h t," he opined. feels that more Americans are "Sometimes it goes a little too concerned w ith how much fa r." money they are making than " I ’ve always liked sports— people in his country. it’s good for you to work out, “ People in the United States but soon it becomes a piece of are happy as long as they make work to win and win. But I a lot of money," he observed, couldn't stay out of sports even com m enting on our equal if it's hard I love it so much. I opportunity. can easily see why people here "Everybody here has a do too!" chance to get up there, some Per was especially critical of use it, and some waste it." the “bad relations between Per is not wasting his time in boys and g irls ." But his this country. He tries to use it to criticism, as it turned out was learn leveled more at the financial “ Everytim e I find something arrang em en t than at th eir new, it puts my own country in relationships a position to compare," he “ It all starts out with the explained “ 1 really learn— I dating system here, when a learn to see things I like about guy dates a girl, he takes her my own country. out and pays for her, and then “ Every day, I find a new he keeps on paying for her! thing in school that's different " In D e n m a rk , we don't from my country,” he added date,” he continued. " If I am "It's interesting to dig. and find going with a girl, we usually see how it works.” each other at our houses, or we He has found that Sandy High might go to a movie. If I have School is “very different” from money, I pay; if she has money, his Danish school in both she takes me— or we may each subjects taught, and the types pay our own way." of assignments He also com m ented on “ M y classes are a ll in American adults; "Something I teresting because they're all find very interesting here Is the d iffe re n t,” com m ented P e r, relationship between men and who is taking subjects, such as women." He was not concerned agriculture, Oregon history, with finances, but with division and modern problems, which of work. aren’t available to him in Denmark. “ I don’t want to waste time doing math— I did that at home." Paradoxically, Per considers our schools strict, but at the same time easier "Americans are put into a very strict system— there is not as much independence, " he remarked. “ Here, we get little assignments due the next day; " I have not seen one single there, we get assignments for American husband going out to two months maybe. the kitchen to wash the dishes' " It gives an opportunity to "When I stayed in Silverton," PER PRACTICES • wrestling hold with member of Sandy High's football team last learn to plan the work. One of related the surprised Per, “the fall. Dave Dillard In preparation for that night's my teachers here commented daughter of the family, my age, meet. A sports enthusiast, he also was a (Post Photo) ■You start with the college went out to wash dishes, and I system in high school.* ” went out and started helping That, feels Per, is the key to her. They looked at me so the basic differences between strangely. That was something the two systems. else!" Nancy Carmony, daughter of In Denmark, the school A m ericans m ight think system is based on the students th e y 're lib e ra te d , but In M r. and Mrs. Glen Carmony, left Sunday for wanting to learn something; Denmark, often the husband Sandy, here, it's based on the students will stay home and keep house Australia, where the will stay learning a certain amount, and while the wife works, and when fo r a year through the A m erican F ie ld S ervice If they wont more, they can go both w o rk, they split th e Americans Abroad program to college.” housekeeping chores At the same time school work " I haven’t seen anything like A jta io r at Sandy High, is easier here, according to that here,'' he exclaimed N ancy w ill atten d P erth him. But even better than kit College, a private girls' school "You don't have to ait down chens, our Danish visitor likes located in the port city of Perth, and work hard and plan things, American food (most of it), near the western coast of and make your own decisions," especially steak. A u s tra lia . The school Is be said. “ On the other hand, it “When you get a nice big equivalent to our high schools, bothers me to sit down every steak, i t ’s re a lly n ic e ," teaching students agea 13 to 17. day, and w rite a little rem em bered P e r, his face assignment. In Denmark, I lighting up. "Back home, we The Lyle Collins fam ily, who could take a day off if I wanted get a little piece; meat is very have a fa rm in nearby to.” Dianeila, will be Nancy's boats expensive in Denm ark." " In some cases, we have "Amerians eat a kit more They have four children, In sm all assignments too— meat, and leas fish than we do. I cluding a girl her age, a American kids just don't have miss the fish, but like the younger brother, and two big assignments. T h e y ’re m eat!” younger sisters missing something they ought There is something here he Nancy, recently initiated Into to learn. I think we learn more doesn’t like. in Denmark." “The cheese you’ve got over the National Honor Society has Per finds sports here very here is crummy! Not near as bean active in AFS, Girls’ different too. In Denmark, many kinds as we have in Athletic Association, Future CLOSING TH E door on Sandy High for s year b Nancy sports are more casual, and Denmark. We have big stores F a rm e rs of A m e ric a, and foreign language chibs. She separated from the academic selling only cheese." sto w m y'lL hO,eI l SUBd" y Australia, where she will study under AFS program program. There la not so much Per, who admittedly likes to was a member of the track and emphasis on competition and eat, is looking forward to the volleyball teams (Post Photo* winning. AFS dinner which he will at " H e re , everybody la in tend with the Carmonya and volved— r a lly team s, o r their children Casey, 17, L a rry , chestras, assem blies— it 11, and Randy, 10. (Nancy makes a lot of spirit. I was Carmony, IS, will not be going. really really shocked about how She left Sunday for Australia much spirit there is !” where she will spend a year.) He was also surprised at how It will ba intereating to see hard players try to win. who washes all the dishes. Story and Photos by Nancy Barker SANDY HIGH vice-prtocipal Fred Proett anuwert some of Per's questioni over coffee, which to the young Dane's favorite beverage. ( Poet Photo) Annual AFS set dinner Sattrday, Jan. 18 is the date for the annual AFS Spaghetti Dinner, sponsored by the Sandy High chapter of the American F ie ld Service. Besides generous helpings of spaghetti, the event w ill include a program featuring exchange students in the district. - • < ! PER JENSEN, exchange student from Denmark a t Sandy High, to grateful to AFS for the opportunities It has given him. (Post Photo) 7 DEES The dinner w ill be served from S to 8 p .m .; the program will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets w ill be 83.30 for adults, 81 for children under 18, and 87 for a fam ily ticket. They w ill be available at the doer. Featured in the program will be P e r Jensen, Danish ex change student at Sandy High, along with foreign students in the district: Unni Krogstad, Norway; Torgunn Pederson, N o rw a y , Naoko K a n a y a m a , Japan; Simone Duarte, Brazil; Noelle Champarnaud, France; D orothy Gordon, Ghana; Hasan Y e rs iz , T u rk e y ; Reinhardt Paper, Germany; Peter McLeod, New Zealand; and Bengt Hanaaon, Sweden. Two Sandy High students have been recently selected to study abroad. Nancy Carmony hat already left for Australia, and Louise Whitlock will leave for Brazil at the end of this month. Sandy High students who have completed foreign studies include Casey C ar mony, who spent a year in Chile, and Peggy Bouray, who stayed in Turkey last summer. H O U SE P L A N T S 3 r d a n d M a in in G R E S H A M 6 6 6 -3 0 0 4 Plant of the Week COLEUS 8” Pet Reg. *8.88 »2.95 Add a splash of color with a plant that's been popular since Grandma's Day. SUHS g ir l to stu d y ’d o w n u n d e r' She'll leave for Brazil Brasil will ba the < of Sandy High Junior Louiaa Whitlock, who wffl travel there next month under the American F ie ld Service Americans Abroad program. Louiaa «a the daughter of Mr. and M rs. Henry Whitlock, Sandy. YOUR CHILD'! PORTRAIT IN [FREE! Louiae will stay a year with the Hener do Sousa Nunes family of Estao, a small town noor Porto Alegre She win attend school in Sao Loopoido. 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