Estancia High School - Flight Yearbook (Costa Mesa, CA)

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Buenos Dios! Guten Tog! Bonjour! Hello! How Do You Say, Hello? There ore o lor of reosor s for rak- ing o foreign language. For some srudenrs rhe only reoson wos be- couse ir was required. However, for most, foreign language was on en- joyable challenge - even rhough ir nnoy hove been difficuir, rhey en- joyed learning a new culrure end language, as Veronica Nordi ex plained Jenno Gormon rook Spanish in- sreod of Germon or French because I ' ll hove a use for ir in my life - Sponish IS becoming more prevolenr here. Afrer all, we live righr next ro Mexico, Ir isn ' r as if we were next door ro France or somerhing, A reocher of Germon, Gunillo Svendsen, said, Learning o foreign language and o new culrure will pro- more undersronding berween peo- ple of differenr backgrounds. I love foreign language, ex- claimed Jennifer Duffy. Ir mokes me feel near ro know another lan- guage, I go around saying ' Nolo! ' Glancing up fronn her German ossignmenr, Norito Jaeger pouses ro brush her hair bacl , from her face . ;.M L. 1 Lisrening ro rheir reocher explain rhe doss ossignmenr, Jenni Sheldon nods in under- sronding Lisa DuffQ and Shone Huong offer a possi ble answer ro a quesnon in a group discus- sion. 50 Academics

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,im Quirk and Amy Wilcox doubr an answer ur forrh while discussing rheir homework os- gnmenr. 01 Insects! One of rhe mosr dreaded aspects of biology for srudenrs was rhe insecr collecrion. Srudenrs in Mr. Tom Fish- er ' s biology doss weren ' r required ro make on insecr collecrion as he rhinks rhey ' re useless, said Barbara Hargrove wirh a grin. However, rhe unforrunare sru- denrs in Mr. Ed Wynkoop ' s class hod ro moke one oround May None of rhe srudenrs were look- ing forward ro collecring ond mounr- ing rhe specinnens. Heather Horvat claimed she didn ' r undersrand why rhey had ro ' go our, corch rhe bugs, kill rhem, and pin rhem ro a board. Thor ' s being roo cruel ro rhe bugs. Debbie Hargrove picrured obove wirh an insecr collecrion com- menred rhar moking ir wouldn ' r be roo bod, bur collecring rhe insecrs would be rhe worsr parr, looking under rocks and srones and such. The idea of pinning rhe insecrs ro a board and spreoding rheir wings our and oil does nor appeal ro me, said Jennifer Stark. tj Science 49 .

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Cirsfen Spain and Liz Linn compare signs ich ond gebe meoning I give in a drillon vord order in Germon sentences. % Foreign Exchange The booklers obour foreign ex- change programs promise a great deal, such os becoming fluent in a foreign language, leorning about a new culture, even starting to dream and understand the dreom in that language, and more. Could this be truer A student from Germany hod the inclination to come here from her homeland and brave the challenges of being immersed in a totally differ- ent culture. Her name v os Judith Kopf and she stayed w rh the O ' Connor family, who hosted an ex- change student from Sweden lost year. Apporently the booklets weren ' t just kidding for Kopf begon dreom- ing in English on and off obout the third month of her stay. Having hod four years of English ot school, Kopf didn ' t get quire the same language shock as someone who didn ' t know a word of the lan- guage. However, she said it was still hard because they only learned sim- ple sentences like My name is Ju- dith and This is a flower. Foreign Longuoge 51