Oxford High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Oxford, KS)

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'pisidt ‘‘poneiyvt' £xcfauiae Stcute«tt 00 1 1. Anne Mette Pettersson helps out at the annual pancake feed for the Senior Class. 2. Anne Mette Pettersson enjoys singing. 2 3. Anne Mette Pettersson enjoys helping the Senior Class raise money for their Senior Trip.

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Weet Oxfantt Anne Mette Pettersson stands in front of the old high school building. Anne Mette Pettersson applied to come to America with American Foreign Service, AFS. There were too many who signed up with this group, so she reapplied with Stu- dents Traveling Service, STS. This group works with American Intercul- tural Student Exchange, AISE, in America. She was the last Norwegian girl placed in AISE. She was notified in the last of June that she was staying with Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore of Geuda Springs, Kansas. In the AISE program they place more exchange students in Kansas than anywhere else in the United States. “The thing I think is most different from home is that people are always in a hurry over here. They can’t stop and relax. It seems to me like they want to do as much as possible in as little time as possible. Another thing is that you don’t have the same friendship as the one I am used to at home. That might be be- cause I have some exceptionally good friends at home. I think the classes are much differ- ent, but that is probably because the whole school system is so differ- ent. In Norway, we do not have the same schedule every day and every class is 45 minutes with 10 minute break between each class. Since we do not have the same schedule each day we also have seven hours a day. What I like most I think is that people are very kind here in United States of America. People have been so nice to me so far, and that makes me feel good and I don’t miss everything at home so much. The thing I dislike is, which I have mentioned before, that people are always in a hurry. The Norwegians are more quiet and steady, so it is quite a change to come over here. Most of all I miss my parents and my family and then I miss my friends. Another thing I miss is the Norwegian nature, mountains, and the sea. So since the landscape is so different. I sometimes get bored of the flat endless fields here.” f2

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David Lowry Lori Mooningham Shayne Morris Paul Newhouse Anne Mette Pettersson Jennifer Long Mark Lowry Gretchen Moore Jerry Middleton