Wagoner High School - Dog Daze Yearbook (Wagoner, OK)

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Ill lobal education I V ' llfll. la I I I I ' 1 Reach Gut and Touch Someone Being an exchange student is not what it seems. Young people are not exchanged, but daily experiences are - not just sights and sounds, but the inner experience that comes only with the immersion in another country's culture. Foreign exchange students embark on an experience whose dimensions can't be im- agined. They gain insights not only into their new country, but into themselves, their own opinions and values. la' 10 Exchange Students Ricardo Harada Richard Harada coveted an oppor- tunity for an exchange experience so much that he came to Wagoner to spend December, January and February in an American family and high school. In Brazil those months are summer vacation. So, after 3 months of winter here, he returned to Brazil just in time for his school term there. Richard came to the U.5. with the Open Door program. Who was Italian, seventeen years old and new to our school? Alessandra Bian- coni, that's who! Alessandra was a foreign exchange stu- dent from Rome, ltaly. When asked what she thought of Wagoner, she stated l think that it's a cute little city. Such things as missing school due to snow, football and basketball games, and cruising were just a few differences be- tween Wagoner and Rome. Sandra was active in vocal music and en- joyed playing the piano. She participated in the OU Model United Nations and was head delegate for the Guatemala delegation. Allesandra Bianconi

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,arf Olli Winzer From West Berlln, Germon-WHS welcomed 16 yeor old Olli Winzer. A few of the new things Olli found in Wogoner, Americo included the love of Americon footboll ond pizzo, involve- ment in High School Bosketboll, visits to New Mexico ond Arkonsos ond tons of new friends. Olli found it eosy to feel or home wherever there were sports, He ployed soccer ond cooched o younger soccer teom. He worked his woy up to vorsity bosketboll tecim ond wos the singles ping-pong chomp of WHS. Like Allesondro, Olli come on o yeor long exchonge with internotionol Chris- tion Youth Exchonge. While the other internotionol students come to Wogoner through orgonized exchonge progroms, for Sondy Cossonovo the experience wos different. Sondy left her fomily in Monterrey, Mexico but lived with Sponish speoking relotives here. Her cousin, Lee Guono, wos o freshmon ond oble to help Sondy with homework since they enrolled in the some closses. Sondy Cossonovo W wx. : -iii V . V. .S sg . ...tw--.ws-.--Q41-'KW 3? Hugo Fernondes l've never lived in o smoll town like this before, sold Hugo Fer- nondes, on 18 yeor old Senior from Rio de Joneiro, Brozil. Hugo found things here so much different thon in the city of Rio. Here, everyone knows everyone, in the city it's o lot different. Hugo mode mony new friends, won o ping-pong chompionship, wos elected Wildest Senior boy, ond ex- perienced his first snow! Exchonge Students 11