Sibley High School - Keewaydin Yearbook (West St Paul, MN)

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NORWEGIAN “I Like it Here” “Tl HAD FIVE YEARS OREN GLIESH IN VIETNAM.” Simon Pedersen, from Oslo, Norway, is new to TUAN BUI Sibley this year. He has come to Minnesota to further his education. According to Simon, “In Norway, students graduate from high school after ninth grade.” Simon went on to explain that the same subjects that are taught in American schools in tenth grade are taught in the ninth grade in Norway. Simon is a junior this year, and he ho pes to come back to Sibley next year, as a senior, to graduate. When asked about the size of enrollment of Sibley as compared to the enrollment of the school he attended in Norway, Simon replied with widening eyes, “School here is a lot bigger. There were about 500 kids at the school | went to in Norway.” wi eDON'T LIKE Simon said that this wasn’t his first visit to ROCK AND ROLL, America. He explained that he lived in California BEGAUSE STS for one year when he was six years old. NOISY.” He said that although he would like to get a job PHUONG DOAN here, “I can’t because I’m a Norwegian citizen.” While in Minnesota, Simon has continued to participate in his favorite sports, downhill and cross country skiing. % | Clee Se ree ls | | i i “SCHOOL HERE IS EASIER.” PHIET HALLMAN “1 LOVE VIETNAM BECAUSE | CAN GO EVERYWHERE AND | KNOW EVERY- PLACE.” KIM BUI

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VIETNAMESE STUDENTS “We Want to Go Back” “1 love Vietnam,” Kim said, “but | can’t go home.” Chau felt the same way, ‘‘We have so many friends in Vietnam and Saigon City, and we want to see them.” Each student had from two to five years of English befofe coming to America. School in America isn’t too hard according to Phuong. “‘It is easy when we understand, but it is hard when we do not.” Mrs. Hutin, a special teacher, is always around to help each student with school problems. Quang, who was a champion ping pong player in Vietnam, works at Shangri La Restaurant with his sister, Yen. Kim summed up the others’ feelings on work by saying, “I will take any work. In my house we have ten people and only my father works.” A few of the Vietnamese students brought tapes of Vietnamese music with them. “American music,” according to Ngai, “is too fast.” A new experience for the Vietnamese students was the snow. Phiet and Tuan had similiar feelings, ‘We love snow, but we don’t like wind.” “1 AM A DISHWASHER AT SHANGRA LA.” QUANG DOAN “4WE “| DIDN’T WANT TO STUDY ENGLISH BE- CAUSE | NEVER THOUGHT I'D COME LO THE UNITED SIA Eos. CHAU BUI “TL LEFT SAIGON BY HE- LICOPTER, STAYED IN GUAM, THEN IN CALI- FORNIA, AND THEN | CAME HERE.” NGAI HALLMAN MISS OUR FRIENDS.” YEN DOAN

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