Capital High School - Talon Yearbook (Boise, ID)

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v The members of French Club are pictured below. Y The members of the German Club are pictured below. L.h.. I lllll! A 2.45 X 6.1 v Hang.. Striding confidently into the room, Gwen Gibson prepares a surprise for the French Club Members. The members of Spanish Club are pictured above. l88 Foreign Language Clubs I..-. The exchange studentsg FRONT ROW: Kari Gulseth lNor- wayl, Margarita Sierra lColumbiaJ, SECOND ROW: Katja Christensen CDenmarkJ, Anne-Charlotte Thomson lDen- markl, THIRD ROW: Maame Bawvah CGhanaJ, Bert Anders- son CSwedenJ, BACK ROW: Lilliana Silva lColumbial. Not Picturedg Paivi Talonen. The members of Latin Club are pictured above. X l Q., -.. ---. fha--. Q7 54' 4' 7 Q 1

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.ken 112543 A I f --x , ,p r f ff ,X f They work hard but Still Ha ve Fun I couldn't be- lieve it! How could they expect me to sit down and write something about I knew nothing about? l had been working on this story for days and everything I wrote turned out to be fit for the garbage can. Why had I signed up for this class in the first place? I thought Yearbook would be all fun and games, but so far all I have done is work, work, work, drawing layouts, mak- ing pictures fit and thinking up caption after caption. While many people were dili- gently worked on their Eng- lish essays, balancing equa- tions in Chemistry or even conjugating verbs in French, the Yearbook staff room bustled with activity Editors proof read, photographers snapped camera after cam- era, and staff members odd- ed the last minute touches to ,X f Casuolly assisting a tense Lissa Riebs, Cyndy Ander- sen proof reads Lissa's copy. 'E , Cherishing the thought of A finishing the index, Rachel Zachreson takes a brief break from the tedious task. their layouts that would soon be- come the reality at the end of the year. From the first day of the school until the final deadline on February 27, the Talon staff put forth a great effort to make this Yearbook the best it could have possibly been. IIThis is a class to be remembered, said Hans At- kins. This class would, in fact, cherished by all. The continu- ous hard work everyone had contributed seemed to pay off in the end. In addition new friends were made and fun times were spent to form last- ing memories. lt's hard work but it's fun, I-leather Hodges remarked. I finally finished my story, layout, and captions and actually had fun in the process! Yearbook turned out to be my favorite class an l learned a lot. All those extra hours after school and on Saturday were worth it after all. Yearbook Staff I87

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Shrugging her shoulders, Lori Eddins gives up trying to speak for an entire five min- utes in French. Anxiously awaiting the meet- ing, Paivi Talonen stares at the numerous posters lining the walls. ll Us I l I' lk, -' KQV, f' V. ilingual Brains Fr America and Abroad v As more col- leges required a language, foreign class population in- creased. Some students, like Todd Theisson, planned on using their bilin- gual skills in their careers. I plan to revisit Germany and am considering a major in in- ternational business. How- ever, the best way to learn a language was to live in a dif- Working at Oktoberfest, Maame 4 Bawvah waits to sell pop for the AFS program, f e r e n t country. This year, seven ex- change students visited the U.S. Kari Gulseth, of Norway, said, l'The first weeks were hard because peo- ple talked really fast. Maame Bawvah, from Ghana, said her hardest adiustment was, the weather! Turning their backs to the camera, German Club officers Todd Thiessen and Kevin Mann moved so quick- ly their clothes were left facing front. V ,X I I l Newly arrived in the Coun- A try, Bert Andersson waits to sample some of Ameri- ca's cuisine. Foreign Exchange Students l89