Mount Vernon High School - Hoop Pole Yearbook (Mount Vernon, IN)

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AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE Tone Elisabeth Andersen. Donna Barrett. Lori Bauer. Cheryl Beste. Tammy Buchanan. Betty Coseboon. Sara Duncan. Cheryl Geier. Karen Geier. Tammy Grace. Cathy Green. Barbara Keiser, Sue Ellen Keiser. Mary Kinsey. Jennifer Kuebler. Lisa Maikranz. Janna Manes. Regina Meador. Clarissa Owens. Sarah Rust. Sherri Schoor. Doug Steele, David Straw. Scott Stump. Darren Thompson. Lavon Tucker. Don Slusher. Melissa Wells. Amy Williams. Sharon Williams, and sponsor — Mrs. Ann Scarafia. OFFICERS: President — Jerilyn Raibley. Vice-President — Angela Jef- fries. Secretary — Heather Farley. Treasurer — Vincent Botta. and sponsor — Mrs. Ann Scarafia The purpose of the American Field Service is to provide friendship, hos- pitality and financial support for the foreign exchange student.

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SOCIAL LIFE

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 Tone-Elisabeth Anderson. Betty Beste. Lee Beste. Cheryl Beste TONE-ELISABETH ANDERSON am dreaming! This is not real I am not going to see my family and friends for a whole year!?l What is my new ’’family'’ going to be like? How will the school be? Will I have any problems with understanding the Southern Indiana accent ? These are some of the thoughts that were twirlling around in my mind on August 4th. 1981. the day I left Norway to go to the United States of America. Lor one whole year! Oh. by the way: My name is Tone-Elisabeth Anderson and I am seventeen years old. This year I am living in Mt. Vernon as a member of the Lee Beste family. I am here as an AFS student. As I have already mentioned I come from Norway-, a long, narrow country on the Northwestern edge of Europe It is a pretty small country, with only 4 million inhabitants, but it is very beautiful. It is known for all its Gords and Mountains The midnight sun. which appears in the Northern part of Norway from the middle of May throughout July, has also done its part of the job of making the country known. My Norwegian family is a little bit different from the family I am staying with here. The Beste family consists of my host mom Betty, my host dad Lee. and my 'sister'' Cheryl who is also a senior this year. I am used to having a one year younger brother (Knut Erile), a twelve year younger sister (Anne-Catherine). a mom (Randi) and a dad (Knut) around. Both of my hostparents are employed outside of home. My ’’real” family is organized differently: My dad runs an accounting company with four employees, my mom is a housewife, which is quite a job with a family of five and a house to take care of! Norway and the U.S.may have several similarities, but the two countries also differ in many ways. For instance, the school system is different. Norwegian school is harder than American Schools and it is much more ’’serious”. You may have seven or eight classes a day. Each class is only 45 minutes long though, and we have a ten minute break between each class. This gives us the opportunity to go outside, and makes us more ready to start the next class. It makes the day go by faster, too! Besides, we don't have the same classes every day of the week. Our schedule varies. The classes I am taking here first semester are Physics. U.S. History. Advanced German. Government. Speech, and P.E. Second Semester I will have French. Psychology. Adv. German, U.S. History. P.E. and Economics. Here in the United States, sports is an important part of the whole school system. There is nothing like it in Norwegian schools All our sports clubs are separate clubs, and the activity goes on in the evening. I like the way you do it here with the different kinds of sports within the school It creates school-spirit, a word not included in the Norwegian people's vocabulary. There is one thing I definitely will be missing when I go back to Norway; the basketball games! It is funl I want to finish up by saying that so far. I have really enjoyed my stay here. It has been great! I want to thank AFS. the school, my family, and everybody who has helped in making my dream come true! To all of you I will say: Thanks for being my friends! Tone Elisabeth Anderson