Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Asian teacher inds pace fast PicTure This: living Thou- Emonds of miles owoy from ome for on enTire yeor, noT Knowing The longuoge of he oreo very well, ond con- TonTly geTTing losT becouse ne did noT know his woy round. Kind of scory? lT wos or The four people from for- ign counTries who pocked heir bogs ond relocoTed in This oreo. From Chongde CiTy. oinlond Chino, come Mr. hi Ping Li, The firsT-ever for- ign exchonge Teocher ere. SToying wiTh The Don- ley fomily in Ook ForesT, he Ebserved Americon wdys of eoching ond living. Ameri- can people ore so full of en- rgy ond Time. The working .hyThm is very, very fosT, pbserved Mr. Li. He olso ound ThoT Teoching in on Qmericon high school wos o ord job! The Three foreign ex- Ehonge sTudenTs were So- hio Avrdom, lvlirjom STeg- ich, ond KeiTumeTse Tumi TsoTeTsi. Sophio from Nico- io, Cypress, sToyed wiTh The mmons fomily in DolTon nd found ThoT schooling ere wos less sTressful. i'We hove To weor o uniform, ond we don'T chonge closses every period. We even hdve To go To school on SoT- urdoys, sToTed Sophio. lvlirjom olso wenT To school on SoTurdoys in WesT Berlin, WesT Germony, so she looked forword To SoTurdoys ond Sundoys here in Amer- ico. I enjoy These long weekends here very much. There wos enough Time for big porTies, olThough Teens someTimes hondle The olco- hol d liTTle biT crozy, sold lvlirjom. She sToyed wiTh The Kuzniors in DolTon. in SoweTo, Souih Africo, where Tumi wos from, school sporTs were looked oT differenTly. She Tried ouT for The cross counTry Teom here buT could noT fiT iT inTo her schedule. 'lSporTs seem To be Token very seriously here. You procTice five To six Times o week, ond bock home we hove procTice Twice o week, commenT- ed Tumi. The Horris fomily of DolTon hosTed Tumi. They come here looking for o new experience ond o chonge of poce ond found iT 1 A - --ant TTTTTQ Arhericose people ore so Tull of energy ond Time. Tiiriie woriaing rl iy'Ti im is very. viery' Tosifi -W Shi i3'ii lQ i.i X '-aizial -R if 'sm ff, aisiilifl .- ..... S T. Y x .T X X Ll x Y X X to s f X S ss TR c Keltumetse Tsofetsl geTs reody To serve The volleyboll for her O period gym closs. Taking sewing os one of her elec- Tives. Mirjom STeglich works on her closs project. Foreign Exchonge 33

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The Chinese symbols for eoch yedr were port of The dispioy pui up in The Principoi's Conference Room by 3n9?4U552Q52415f5??Zg5 ' iz: J 3 ,sys S I v ff W W I, . wk ,5yrff,s K . :Jn 1 My , ' Y? ff .4 1 S4 r as HE, A Mr, Shi Ping Li in celebroiion of The onniversory of The founding of Communist Chino. W- While pointing To ci iocciiion in Spoin, Sophio Avroom shores some of her knowledge of European counfries. The AFS group mei ofier schooi To meei The foreign exchange Siu- denis, Keiiumeise Tsofeisi, Mirjom Sieglich, ond Sophid Avrciom. Miss Jocinn Mocdnder sponsors The or- gonizofion. 32 Foreign Exchonge Ha

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A group of friends take advantage of the five minutes between classes to catch up on the eday's events. 1 img, Jennifer Kem and Julie Sterk aid each other in the endless search for the bargain. Monica Haqq, Carolyn Skinner, and Kirk Simmons share a laugh during English class. 341 Friendships