Park Center High School - Pirate Yearbook (Brooklyn Park, MN)

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Is It Me? b it meww You guy's! I'm serious. Now refl me rhe truth Ok? Please!? b it me that Jim's going to ask out Friday night or nor? I hove to Know' It's driving me crozy! Just look ot me! I’m o total bundle of nerves! I con't horxSe this anymore!'' Wei I promised I wouldn't tel but no. I con't' He would be so mod if I told1 Please! I'll pay you each $20. ond do all of your homework for 2 weeks' Just tel me! Ok But remember rhar we didn’t tell you. Promise? I promise! Just tel me! Wei when I wos in moth. I heard him soy ” Come on hurry up! Lunch b almost over ond I hove to know! “No. I con't! Michele, you tel her. No way' I didn't sron this, you dki And I'm nor gong to be ony port of this! You guys! Thb b no rime to decide who's gonna tell, jusr spit ir out' I con’t tell you I know how mod he gets or people who gossip about him, ond I don't wont to get on hb bod side! Now thb b it! Do you wont to see one of your best friends committed to Anoka Store jusr over o stupid dore? Well nor reoSy bur ... Bur whor? I hove to know! “Wei o.k He sold ... well I didn't hear him rhor good ... ond well ... oh here he comes! Why don’t you ask him? Whor? No. he con't come over here, he doesn’t eor thb lunch! Wei, heUo todies. How's ir going? Oh N Jim! I guess it's going ok Wei I wos jusr wondering whor you hod planned for Friday night? As of now, well, nothing. Why? Well, how's obour you ond I catching o movie ond maybe some pizza5 Sure! Sounds great! I'l pick you up around 7 30 ok5 O.k! I'l see you then! Great! Now don't forger! Don't worry I won't! See yo toter! O k bye! I don't bebeve ir He asked me! Our of al the grb m rhe school, he asked me! Oh-no whor om I going to wear, ond I hove to find something new to do with my hair, ond Get That Guy! THE 10 STEPS FOR GETTNG A GUY TO NOTICE YOU 1. Pick our your dreom guy 2. Find our whor lunch he ears; skip 4th hour, ond sit or rhe table next to him (DON'T buy anything to eor!) 3 Once he sees you. wink and or bar your tong, luscious eyelashes or him. (If you don't hove ony. buy some.) 4 Smile ond try to get o srmle bock. 5. If no smile, repreor step 4. 6. If srl no good response, go bock ond repeat steps 1-6. 7. After o srmle, follow him to rhe Ato-corr line. (AH red men eor more than jusr one school lunch.) 8. When he doesn't hove enough money to pay for hb bi. offer to borrow him rhe rest. 9. Afrer he occeprs your hard eorned money, wok bock to rhe table with him. 10 While walking, make good conversation with him (EXAMPLE Whor sports ore you in? . Whor kind of car did you soy you drove? , Purple is my fovorire color. Whor's your's? , Whor's your phone number? Mines. (Your phone number). Afrer you hove completed steps 1-10, rhe rest b ol up to you Good Luck, and hove fun! Bur remember you are in school'

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Exchange Students Experience America Adjusting; ro o differenr language, o different lifestyle, different ideals, and even o different diet! To anyone, that sounds difficult or best Out, imagine the problems you would run across chonging countries ... Even if you chose ro visit this country, it would be very trying Suppose you were ro try and adopt afl your volues and customary ways of doing things and live with rhe natives of this foreign lond for six months or even o year Now. it moy begin ro sound impossible1 For three students currently orrending Pork Center, rhe impossibility is turning into on unforgeroble experience Not ro mention on adventure! They ore Keiko Fujii, lleane Gorcio, and Ricardo Bedrigual from Japan, Mexico, ond Brazil. Keiko first come ro rhe United Stores when she wos 10 years old for o visit ond decided she would like ro study here. So, two months ago, she come bock ro ar-rend Pork Center for six months. The thing she soys she will remember rhe most about her stay os o Pirore is rhe musical ''Carousel'' because of ol rhe hoppy feeings. friends, ond helpful people. This 6 where she feels she leorned most of her Engksh. The two places she reoHy wonts ro see before leaving for home ore New York ond Florida. The food she wfl miss the most will be good old American ice cream! Deane come ro rhe United Stared for one reason primarily,- to learn rhe English longuage becouse she plans to study tourism. When she first arrived in June, she had a very minimal amount of knowledge of our language which seems ro be rhe biggest barrier between us ond these students. The few words she knew consisted of helio,” please,'’ thank you, and excuse me. Since then, she has become quire fluent and one would hove a hard rime believing she has nor known it for her entire life. This comes from a great deal of effort and study on her port. In Mexico, she was used ro srudying for an overoge of eight hours a night ( Her fovorire thing about rhe United Stares ore rhe guys. As she stored, in her country, it is very unusual ro see any blond haired, blue eyed guys ond she finds this orrrocrive. The two ptoces she would like ro see ore Chicago ond rhe Statue of Liberty Her favorite food? Anything from Arbys! Ricardo has been in rhe United Stores for rhe first rime ever thanks to rhe exchange yudenr progrom. Unlike rhe others he had some prior knowledge ro rhe English longuoge ond therefore was slightly more prepored. The moin difference he notices about rhe United Stares in comporisson ro Brazil is the fact that fcfe is a tor foyer paced The cities ore very developed and rhe people living in them ore constantly on rhe go The two rhings he hopes to see before heading back ro Brozil in July ore Alcarroz. ond Mount Rushmore. He has ocqured a defimre taste for pizza ond yares he will miss that very much. Ricardo wishes ro say. I'm glod ro be here with rhe Americans and wont ro thank everyone.” WeH, now you have a little more insight in to what people from other countries think about us ond our country. If this sounds inrereying ro you, moybe you would want ro consider spending six months in either Brazil, Japan, or Mexico and arrend school with Keiko, lleane, or Ricardo ... left: Ricardo rakes rime our from Ns studious ocrivi-rtes to flash rhe comero half a srr4e cover Kefco busty creates o masterpiece of sculpture nghr leone obviously has found Pirore Pride ond that smie coUd only belong ro a Pirore Exchange Sruden s 17

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Blind Date? Why me??? Why couldn't ir be someone else? Anyone. I don'r care who. anyone, bur me! Moybe she'l chicken out ond won'r wonr ro go our Or berrer yer moybe she'll ger sick ond hove ro go ro rhe hospirol. Or when her morher comes home from work moybe she'll run her over wirh rhe cor. This is ridiculous rolkhg ro myself ike rhis. If only I ddn'r owe Julio o fovor. Why does he hove ro coJecr his fovor rhis woy. I'll never forgive him for rhis. I'd rarher do his homework oil year long, rhon go our on o blind dare I don’r even know her name, bur rhor's nor rhe worsr porr. I don'r know whar she looks like! Whor if she's for ond ugly, wirh orange hoir ond o green mole on rhe side of her foce. I'll die!!! She’s probably rhe rype of girl rhor Insisrs on rhe besr of everyrhing. The finesr resrauranrs ond expeers condy ond flowers. There goes o monrhs worrh of pay oil in one nighr. Or whor if she's srronge You know rhe rype. The kind you're embarrassed ro be seen wirh. Differenr colors in her hoir, wirh bizarre clorhes. This is gonna be rhe worsr nighr of my life! If she wos half woy olrighr she wouldn’r need o blind dare. She has ro be o loser. This is going ro ruin my repu-rorion. This is ir, rhe end, oil washed up. The nexr rhing I know I'm ringing her doorbei Her morher answers. I sri hove one losr chonce ro ger owoy. Just os I rurn ro leave I see my dare coming down rhe sroirs. I hove never seen anyone so beouriful in my life Love or firsr sighr I’m gkxJ ir wos me!! Play The Dating Game !!! Rate Your Date Rare Your Dare Every person 6 different so every dare 6 differenr Dores con be fun or they con be boring. To moke sure you don'r moke rhe some mistake rwice Rare Your Dore . on o scale of one ro five. 1- Total loser, absolutely no doss- con’r woir unri rhis dore is over. 2 Talkative, oil rolls end no ccrion; you hod ro buy eor plugs in rhe middle of your dore. 3- Okay. nice, bur does nor hove good looks, you could live wirh or without rhis dore. 4- Good looking, bur Isnows ir! You could hove o good rime ond possibly go our ogain. 5- Gassy, great looking, great personality, dream dore. sounds like you berrer hong on ro this one boby1 Afrer your big nsghr on rhe rown. roke o few minutes our from your nightly routine, ro Rare Your Dore”. Now if your dore wos o 1-2, forger ir' Why waste your rime running oround wirh o loser5 Out if your dore wos o 3, wel moybe you could go our wirh him her ogam. On rhe other hond. if you hod o fun rime ond enjoyed rhe compony of your rorred 4-5 dore. go for ir ond try ro do ofl you con ro hond on ro rhor one! Moybe o future life Together, or even mor-rioge could result!