Bolles School - Eagle Yearbook (Jacksonville, FL)

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30 Foreign Students Daniel Zambrano ivenezuelal and Scott Farrington fBahamasl enjoy a favorite pastime of the resident students-foosball. All unruly. nf! I mf., Living in the dorm provides an opportunity lor Babak Deshnad Uranl and John Magee iLiberial to work together on homework as well as the language. In addition to sharing a room, Manuel Perez-Alonso lNIcaragual and Ramon Abarca iPuerto Flicol also share a common language.

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In the solitude of their room, Keith McDuffie and Scott Rogers can read and relax with relative ease. Surf's Freedom, Excitement Are Inexplicable 4' ell' M .asf Mark Bailey has been surfing since age seven, and he plans to continue it, for as long as physically possible. Growing up in St. Augustine, learning to surf was in- evitable for Mark. Currently he prefers to surf in the St. Augustine area tBlow Hole, Valano Beach, the Point, and the pierl. Surfing has become such a compul- sion with Mark that he surfs year- round. During the winter tDecember through Februaryj, he wears a full wet suit and surfs in such cold and icy waters that, the water gives me a headache when waves hit me. But the waves are too good to pass up. Although the location of Bolles has limited his surfing during the school week, he watches weather reports closely and often makes trips to the beach after school when waves are good. Experience has taught Mark that storms, fronts, Northeastern winds, and low pressure systems are sure indications of good waves. Mark finds the inexplicable feeling of freedom and excitement that he ob- tains from riding a wave relaxing and personally satisfying. During the summer, he works for the Island Surf Shop in St. Augustine, surfs daily, and enters regional competitions. Mark has learned to tolerate the total physical exhaustion that results from surfing. Often surfing from sun-up to sun-down, Mark averages seven hours of surfing a day when waves are good. His many experiences while surfing are what make the summer worthwhile for Mark. pnofile - 63 S1U9PnlS lU9P!S9l:l

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gs ., .qw Varied Cultures Add Dimension to Bolles , x ,f A x 7, 1. N l N Q Nu X f N .fig-'L Heather Armstrong from South Africa spends her first year in America in the 7th grade at Bolles, while Shaheen Navabterani from Iran is a Junior. The wide-range appeal of Bolles can best be seen by the number of foreign students in attendance this year. From as far away as Thailand, they came to take advantage of the many opportunities offered. 'iMy father came here and saw the school. He liked it, so he sent me here, said Eduardo Morgan. These students have found friendship and at the same time have enriched us with a knowledge of something other than our own country. Did they feel that being from a foreign land made them more interesting to others? l believe that being from someplace else made students want to have me as their friend, replied Shaheen Navabterani. They want to know what someone from Iran is Iike. While most of these students boarded here, Shaheen, Heather Armstrong, and Agneta Persson all lived in the ci- ty. This gave them the chance to be more a member of the community and see more of what America is like. Heather Armstrong found that there was not a great difference between the boys and girls here and in South Africia. ln South Africa we hardly ever wear jeans, here every one does. Other than that, we are really the same.