Washington High School - Washingtonian Yearbook (Fremont, CA)

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Rene Damkjaer is from Denmark. He is a junior here at Washington and lives with the Randall family. The Ran¬ dalls have six children which is quite a change from two in Rene’s family in Denmark. He likes Washington and especially likes the idea of changing classes and teachers at the semester. In Denmark everyone has the same courses all year long. Rene enjoys sports hut hates to take time out of his year here to become active in our athletic program. He thinks having sports and other activities in schools are really great. Danish schools don’t have many activities and have no sports at all. You have to join clubs to participate in sports. What Rene misses most about his country is the ocean. He used to live about fifty feet from the water. When Rene returns home he will be finishing business college. OCNMAJM Jan Huizinga is from a town of about 15,000 people in Holland. His family there consists of his parents and his two brothers. Here in America he lives with the Dockter family. Jan is a senior and likes Washington. He says the structure is very different in Holland. In his own country, he would have 10-12 different subjects all year long and a new’ schedule each day. What Jan misses most about being away from home is going out with his friends. He says teenagers in Holland have more freedom. Jan says Americans are more outgoing than the Dutch. The strongest thing Americans do, in Jan’s opinion, is eat corn. Only chickens eat corn in Holland. When returning home, Jan w ill go into the army for thirteen months as all eighteen year olds do. In Switzerland, Martin Kunzi lives in a small town, Interlaken, which his parents two sisters, and brother. Here in Fremont he lives with the Lundstrom family. As a junior, he likes school here at Washington and says its about the same level of difficulty. However, in Switzerland he had nine periods a day but only four days of school each week. Martin says California is nice and that the weather is much better than in Sw it- zerland. He enjoys soccer, playing the piano, music, and reading. The thing Martin misses most is playing the piano, (his host family doesn’t have one) accord¬ ing to Martin the strangest thing Americans do is put everything in the refrigerator. He also mentioned that Americans eat more meat and that there is no peanut butter in Switzerland. When Martin returns home he has two more years of school to finish. 25