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Show poor copy s Student Samples U.S. Learning, Living 1 if :T 3 , ... . .1..,. fa- . Silke Hodapp When 16-vear-old Silke about Beni i. Hodapp recently arrived in Park City for a year's stay under a foreign-exchange student program, she found a number of intriguing changes. She jumped from the streets of Berlin to the picturesque Rocky Mountains, Moun-tains, into the home of Darrel and Brigitte Burns. The number of subjects she had to take has been cut in half, but her school schedule is more rigid and predictable. predict-able. Still, there are reminders of home. She can ski the Park City slopes. And Germany, Ger-many, when she left, was in the midst of a presidential campaign. The contest, she said, was between a conservative conser-vative and a progressive who's "not too progressive." She should feel right at home. . In Germany, she said, she would be attending 14 different dif-ferent classes at once not squeezed into one day, but scattered over the week. German students usually will take six lessons a day, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and then adjourn in time for lunch. Phys. Ed., for instance is usually two days a week, and often filled, she said, with many different activities. Here, of course, it's an almost-daily routine of side-straddle side-straddle hops and laps , around the track., - Her hardest' class." ni niiiivv.,i (Wiir'.j Mi- she is understandably hard-pressed hard-pressed to keep up. "For in stance," she said, "the teacher asked a question WED.SEPT. 24 thru Mon. Sept. 29 Address. CityStateZip. Franklin. I know the name, but nothing else." The typing class i.he is taking now would aa J. ti-fered ti-fered to her in Germany, ste said, where only "progressive" "pro-gressive" schools give that kind of course. All students attend Grades 1-f;, where teachers watch them and determine what school they will attend afterwards. The best students go to Gymnasium, (which is where Silke ended up). Realschule is for the medium students, and Haup-tschule Haup-tschule for the not-so-medium. Students may attend at-tend Gymnasium for six or seven years, while a student's education at the other levels only will continue con-tinue for four more years. Silke enjoys foreign language courses. German students are required to know two tongues, but she knows three English, French and Latin. It ties in well with her love of travel, though this trip marss her first departure from Germany. Ger-many. ' Most of all, she is interested in-terested in becoming a jour-:: nalist, and is taking report-classes report-classes this year. She-worked She-worked on a school newspaper news-paper in Germany, she said, but was dissatisfied; it became too much a "time for joking." She hopes to at-? tener a urtTmarr umvErsirv: the large numbers oi students applying. Silke applied for the trip through the Pacific Inter SUBSCRIBE TO Mewspsapen0 And Receive TWO FREE TICKETS TO THE CIRCUS A $14.00 Value Offer Expires Sept. 26th (or until tickets run out) Subscribe Now! $6.00 in Summit County, $12.00 out of county. Name i : ; Make check payable to The hfarK city, (tu turall 'Mxchan26.(Hli.ji. It.; :iHeh '. II' I' T!. H J- r! I iff dull rtajtlfc $(j)in-j;She, is used to Yankee jsiang , ;Soring three students in Park "City", she "sai'd. 'VAnot'lk'r ' . agerfcy: theiAnwifujun Field, Service, has two. ) There rue 200 students in , this; count rv sponsored. by PE alone., , ' Silke filled out the proper forms, certified her health, and wrote a personal statement about the kind of American host family she desired. Her teachers were required to acknowledge that her grades were adequate. "I think if you are medium, you can go," she recalled. "You don't have to be very good." She sent the papers in late, but received a letter of approval, telling her she'd be' going to a small mountain community called Park City. "I imagined the mountains as they are in Austria," she said. "I was a little bit shocked. They look different . . . like animals." She worried about people's attitudes toward her nationality. "When you come from Germany, there are people around the world who don't like you very much," she said. But local students haven't acted this way, she added. "They just ask. 'Where are you from?', and nothing else. They have never teased me." Silke stih struggles occasionally for the right English word, but &MJ Restaurant I'ARK CITY Open For Sunday Brunch served from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. , , ' , Serving t Breakfast and Lunch luesd.iy thru S.ilurd.iy , ' -Dinner served Wednesday thru Saturday , ..ltAUiKIGI'KIU RiH. SEAIOODAMlsllAKS V Jt .1', HOMtMAdl. WiAt) SAI AD bAK INC. I UHI) 'j' Open no bs'ioiriod fit: le KtfierwAWiAS Acxtipt&d,,. S-H-(4b6, 5 Main Street Newspaper; P.p. Box 738, Utah 84060 iin i eeneral has few - ' i ..i . . from listening to . the American Forces Radio :Net work in Germany. Politics interest her. but she isn't active in a party. Rack home, conservative Franz-Josef Strauss is running run-ning against a more liberal incumbent, Helmut Schmidt, and we asked about what she knew of the similar race in this country. "Carter used to be a peanut farmer," she recalled, "and Americans think he has made many mistakes." Reagan is more conservative, she So'd, used to be a movie star, and wants to prevent women from participating par-ticipating in elections. What, we asked, were her best and worst impressions of the country so far. "The people are a bit conservative," conser-vative," she said shyly, obviously ob-viously reluctant to criticize. "They accept other religions, but not other beliefs. They're afraid of Communists, which is silly." Our best feature? Americans are friendly, she said, to people from other, lands. "In my country, they are not so friendly," she added. add-ed. In fact, the U.S. reputation for hospitality influenced Silke Hodapp to choose this country for her exchange experience. So far, her faith in us seems to be justified. 8 a. nv - SALT PALACE 3 .. I Vi" ' 1 ill ' orobleiri I fejiiltf fit KiCMt' " 1 "'in'" I cs&npppw.'-'las 3BKaEm WUHWBEaKWgMK Pluito Hslival I.MII i , . . i .. f opening at Kimball Art , , , " 1 Center; receiitiim :i-.r) p.m. , ' 'j ' - " '- j ' ' " I shows throughout, id " " 7.'A ;'i:'l': ' I Challenge (up Huuhy k i ' ' furl"'v championship f 'V ' ' I aine2p.m.City Park "'; Monday ' .'7' ' , " f 1 ' 1 mi"" In I p in . f'rospei tor , . ' ' i ' ' ' i f Athletic Cidb - Z ' ' " ' 8 "Making a Kine Photo- SfflBfiraMEBBESfflOTaSSB graphic Print" workshop I Lucky Johnlir. 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