Pottsboro High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Pottsboro, TX)

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Growing, Laughing America. lt's something that we will take for granted. But for two foreign exchange students, it was something to learn, From the time Marek Harloff of Hamburg, West Germany arrived on August 29, 1987 and Carlos Ernanny of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil arrived on January 17, 1988 until they left, they never stopped learning new things and leaving small tidbits of themselves and their cultures everywhere they went. There were two main differences noticed by both boys. The biggest was in the educational systems. In Germany the classes are taught on a higher level and students cannot choose electives until after the tenth grade. There are no electives in the Brazillian school system. The mandatory subjects in Brazil are also much stiffer than the ones in America. They include Portuguese, English, French, chemistry, math, biology, physics, geography, philosophy, and history. They also thought Americans were more patriotic than their compatriots. Both of the seventeen year olds went from living in very large cities to a city with a population of only 895. Carlos liked the idea simply for the fact it was in Texas, but he had wanted to go to California before he got to know the people. He simply said, I loved it here. Marek didn't find out how big Pottsboro was until he saw it but didn't mind since he'd been living in a bigger city all of his life and thought it could be interesting to live in a smaller town for some time. --e 2X?Z'f?: ' ' ' , ml 8 Qi .4 ,Q ...Q . .1..-ls..-a..w..,,..,,.,. Carlos takes a break from jumping on the trampoline to pause for a picture. Carlos turns to listen to a group of people predicting which plays will advance out of regional competition. 123 Marek celebrated his 17th birthday April 22 during the regional trip to Stephenville. Harloff's reaction to the surprise party? All of this is really too muchll'

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