personal interests community mentoring foreign exchange
In 1994, I teamed up with two other adults to chaperone four Waldport High School students on a five week foreign exchange
program with the Liebnitz Gymnasium in Bad Schwartau, Germany, outside the beautiful Hanseatic city of Lubeck.
My fifteen year-old son, Wyatt, was one of the students who took advantage of this great opportunity to live with a German family,
learn the language and culture, and travel all over northern Germany.
The year before, we had hosted Nadine Stolle, a senior from the gymnasium, who lived in nearby Sereetz.
The Stolles, in turn, were perfect hosts to me on this exchange visit and they still hold a special place in my heart.
After this visit, we were able to host Arne Untermann, one of Wyatt's host's sons, in Oregon.
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Waldport, Oregon, students, Wade, Wyatt, Andrea, and Janet taking a break in Luneburg, Germany, 1994
A special musical performance at the Liebnitz Gymnasium, Bad Schwartau, Germany, 1994
Students take in Cecilienhof, Potsdam, Germany, 1994.
The group with one of their hosts, Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany, 1994.
Group at the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, 1994.
Wyatt, Janet, and Andrea enjoy a break at the Hard Rock Cafe, Berlin, Germany, 1994.
Traveling into the former East Germany, the group takes in Schweriner Schloss, Schwerin, Germany, 1994.
Wyatt learning to scull with his host family and the rest of the group, Bad Schwartau, Germany, 1994.
Son, Wyatt, hamming it up with his host family, the Untermanns, 1994.
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