Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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enthusiastic American teens

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Costa Rican AFS student becomes one of many Above: Lunchtime is a period of leisure for everyone including foreign exchange student Maria Monge. To the amazement of the brown-eyed Costa Rican, American food proved to be quite appetizing. Below: Many hours of concentrated study on the basics of the English language con¬ sume the free time of the AFS student. For the fifth consecutive year. Crown Point High School has participated in the American Field Service Exchange Pro¬ gram. This program enables a student from a foreign country to spend a year with an American family while he attends high school. This arrangement promotes a better understand¬ ing among the future leaders of the world ' s diverse nations. American students are also able to participate in the AFS program. Young people are given the opportunity of spending a summer abroad with a European family, sharing in their way of life. Coming from the warm climate of Palmares, Costa Rica, this year ' s foreign exchange student, Maria Monge, experi¬ enced the cold snowy Indiana winters for the first time. She was familiarized with American family life through her stay with the Bernard A. Carstens family. She helped to broaden the international understanding of CPHS students as she gave speeches concerning the customs of her home country. Courses studied by Maria included English, advanced mathe¬ matics, American history, speech and home economics. 26

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Future dramatists