Albertville High School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Albertville, AL)

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You may Hunk your 198 88 school yew was exciting. but imagine wlial it would have been if you had boon an exchange student This was I he case with Stolen Glabc. an exchange student horn Germany living with Clark and Judy Phillips while attending Albert vile High Scfiool Stefan was given the choice ol going to either the United States. Canada, or Austria He chose Hie United States because he was more interested in Hus country He found his experiences hero pioasant and enjoyable dospito Hie fuel that fie missed his family very much and was oagoi lo return home at Hie ond of Hie school year Upon reluming to Germany, he will attend high school tor throe more years and then serve in Hie army lor fifteen months before going on to colloge When asked lo compare school here and m Germany, he indicated that Hie schools were much alike except that his class loads wore much heavier in Germany AH suh jects taken in schools there arc roquired The year before coming to school in AlbcMviHe. Steian's classos included chemistry, biology, physics, math. German. English. French. and physical education A major difference Stefan observed was hi the dress code While our dress code and rules were much stricter than m Germany, students in Germany do not dress as casualty as they do here He observed that anyone wearing tennis shoes m Germany woukf be considered tow class f ighteen is the age lor getting a driver's license m Germany and before one can at tempt applying lor a Uconso. he must complete a three month courso of instruction Stefan reported that his weekends in Germany are spent in much Hie same manner as those of American teenagers, going to parties and discos the one major dif lerence tie saw was that in Germany when a boy takes a girl out stie pays lor her own entertainment and food The year was made much richer lor all us having had Hkj opportunity to learn as much from Stctan as wo taught him 7

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