Norfolk High School - Milestone Yearbook (Norfolk, NE)

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Experience Useful Spending a year in United States enables foreign exchange Students to learn more about U.S. lifestyles and themselves NHS opened its doors to many new students this year. Among these new faces were four students from different countries. Marc Gebauer, from West Germany; Cibele Mendes, from Brazil; Kaisa Mustonen, from Finland; and Oystein Soug, from Norway were the four foreign exchange students attending NHS this year. Spending a year in a foreign country among unfamiliar surroundings and people was an enormous challenge filled with many opportunities. I think being a foreign exchange student is a big opportunity in my life. Later on I will profit from my experiences which I have learned this year. After this year I will be able to speak English fluently and I will be more dependent upon myself, said Gebauer. We, as Americans, have many stereotypes of people from different countries. However, Americans are not the only people who form stereotypes of others. People in Finland think that all American girls have ' long, curled hair, use heavy make-up, giggle, and chew gum all the time. All American guys are good-looking, tan and muscular. There are also lots of fat people, and Americans eat hamburgers and drink Coke 24 hours a day, stated Mustonen. Along with adapting to a new country, language, and culture, the foreign exchange students had to adapt to a whole new school system. At NHS the people don't stay in one room all the time, said Soug. “There are different people in different classes and the teachers want more respect. People also have more opportunity to choose the subjects they want. -oreign Exchange Kaisa Mustonen works on a story for the Panther. Being a staff member was one of her extra-curricular activities. Not being familiar with the American language can cause confusion in communication. As a result, being a foreign exchange student can be quite humorous at times. The funniest thing that has happened to me since I've been here, confessed Mendes, was when my friend asked me if we have bugs in Brazil and I answered yes, I have one sister. By exchanging ideas, customs, and attitudes the foreign exchange students enabled those who met them to bring the world a little bit closer together. -J. Becker

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Shelly Melnke stands beside her decorative wall. Many of her friends contributed to the artwork. Sitting on the bench of his baby grand, Brad Schroeder enjoys a snack. The piano is just one of the many unique things in Brad’s room. Sara Turay sits in her bedroom with all of her stuffed animals. This is just s small part of her huge collection of stuffed animals and dolls. Feature 23

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m Student Council members Kaisa Mustonen, Cibele Mendes, Oystein Soug, and Marc Gebauer help decorate the school Christmas tree. STUCO members are responsible for decorating the tree every year. Foreign exchange students are traditionally members of this student organization. 1986-87 Foreign exchange students. Front Row: Kaisa Mustonen, Cibele Mendes. Back Row: Oystein Soug, Marc Gebauer. Oystein Soug tackles the difficult cross country course at the Norfolk Invite. Cross Country is one of the activites that Oystein participates in at NHS. ForeignJExchan