Student Exchange
Ada, Minn. On his first day ever playing American football, Ada-Borup (Minn.) junior Vitor Vac Bitu Alves watched as Ada-Borup-Norman County West kicker Colby Stevenson kicked a few extra points in practice. Stevenson told Vac Bitu Alves to give it a try. In tennis shoes, the foreign exchange student from…
When 17-year-old exchange student Marnouk Van der Laan arrived in Indiana last Sunday, she immediately noticed one thing. “I saw a lot of cornfields,” she said. “A lot of cornfields.” But even with all of the agriculture surrounding it, Van der Laan said Seymour is much larger than her hometown…
I want to tell you about my great year with my host dad, Mr. Steck, in Abilene, Texas, and being a foreign exchange student at Lueders Avoca High School. When I arrived, my host dad encouraged me to get involved in athletics in order to quickly meet friends and become…