American Field Service Exchange Program - Overseaer Yearbook (New York, NY)

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BETSY MOLL Buffalo, New York MARY MULRONEY Missoula, Montana BOB NEWMAN Marblehead, Massachusetts JUDY NORBERG Castro Valley, California JIM PFAU Syracuse, New York MICHELLE SOFFIAN Merion, Pennsylvania SUSAN SPRINGBORG St. Paul, Minnesota JOEL TESSIERI Lawndale, California KATE WILDMAN Santa Monica, California joel Tessieri leaving his japanese family.

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Luxembourg, one of the oldest independent countries in Europe, was home for eight of us AFSers last summer, and we consider ourselves the luckiest group in the whole AFS program. We found tiny Luxembourg to be a beautiful country with mountains, forests, neat fields, and trim little towns. A half hour ride by automobile took us to any of Luxembourg's borders, and many of us had a chance to travel outside of the country with our families. Luxembourg's landscape is dotted with many ancient castles and to us AFSers these castles were a main at- traction as we traveled all over the country. We found our families, in fact, all Luxembourgers, to be very happy and to have a strong spirit of freedom. A fa- vorite and typical expression we found was mir wolle bleiwe wat mir sin which means we want to remain what we are. After spending a summer in Luxem- bourg we can see how true that saying is. We all were surprised to see how many American items our families had. Nearly every family had a refrigerator and an automatic washing machine, their standard of living was very comfortable. Luxembourg still had a charm all her own and part of this was shown in her delicious foods: Ardennes hams, all kinds of fresh water fish, and marvelous Qand fatteninglj pastries. We were introduced to many new summer sports by our Luxembourg brothers and sisters, and we soon became avid fans and players of soccer and bicycle racing. The days were never long enough to do all we wanted to do, and all too soon our summer was over. Saying good-bye to our families we realized how much we had come to love the people and country of Luxembourg, and we knew we would never forget them. We too want to remain what we are so that someday we may go back to our Luxembourg and again become a part of their wonderful way of life.