Bellevue West High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Bellevue, NE)

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West Students at Home XF? was ts.. 4 Top left, Billy Wade poses with his catch after a successful fishing trip. Top right, Steve Rikkers, the 9th ranked Nebraska skier, gets in some early action on the Fontenelle slopes on October 10. Bottom left, Kerry Stites at home with mom, aide Tami Stites. Bottom right, Tony Moore and Jennifer Brown celebrate at Tony's post-game birthday party. ' . ' ff ,Mmm We 7- i A ,QQWQ

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West Students at Work BX QW Top left, Debbie Frye cleans up at Burger King. Top right, Kurt Merrick and Nick Ardinger plan what they could do with these computers at Computer Works. Middle left, Kevin Chick packs things away at Ba- kers. Middle, Sean Scorvo taking a break from working at Musicland. Middle right, Gary Chism is still conducting the band at Shopko. Bottom, Missy Williams serving a customer at Leaning Tower of Pizza.

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Pausing to smile for the camera between classes is Yuri Miyata. Enjoying an American class, Katarina Rundstrom learns some- thing new each day. Giving us his best American-style pose is Holger Geiss. .rf Adventures in America Adjusting to a new country while trying to finish high school would be difficult for most of us, but West's foreign exchange students looked at this as an opportunity of a Iifetime as they approached the year with great enthusiasm. Eighteen- year-old Katarina Rundstrom, a senior from Sweden, said that in America there is much more school spirit. In Sweden, you have to join sports and activities outside of school and Katarina admitted that this was boring. A seventeen-year-old senior from West Germany, Holger Geiss felt that many Americans take life and their jobs less serious than in Germany. He thought that Americans are a little too superficial in the behavior to each other. Cristina Kaiser, a senior who is also from Germany, is seventeen. She couldn't wait to come to America because she felt it was an opportunity of a lifetime. In Germany, school for Cristina starts at 8:00 am and ends at 1:00 pm with no lunch hour. From Japan, senior Yuri Miyata, 18, says that her country is small but has many people who aren't very different from Americans. She really misses her beautiful country, especially the ocean, but she really likes it here. ln Japan everybody studies so hard especially seniors study hard to enter coIIege. Yuri takes ten different subjects in Japan, six one day and four the next. Her favorite subject is English, which she has studied for six years. But here, the English class is very difficult because I can't read the books, said Yuri. Both Katarina and Holger agree when it comes to dating in the United States. They both feel that it is too formal. When we go out on the weekend or during the week, we just go together in a large group of about ten or fifteen and everyone pays for themselves. If I go out with just my girlfriend, sometimes I pay or sometimes she does, said Holger. I haven't been here very long yet, but hopefully I will get a lot of good experience. I've learned how to live in another country, how to speak English a little better, and how to be a little more independent, commented Katarina of her benefits of life in America.