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Show : - . .. ' . . . r U ( - f if f ' MIT Ill II ' '.. I " : INTERNATIONAL j "BROTHERS" Michael Christensen, left, of Farmington joins hands with his new "brother", Bernd Broker of Paris, who is living with the Christensens as part of the Pacific Intercultural Exchange program. "It's just great to have Bernd for my brother." stated - Michael Christensen of Farm-E Farm-E ingion who expressed his feel-; feel-; ingsfor Bernd Broker of Paris. France w ho joined their family - in late August 1980 on the Paci-jfic Paci-jfic Intercultural Exchange ' (PIE) program. - BERND IS a senior student -at Davis High School and is ; enjoying his experience of "attending high school in the United States although he had already graduated from high school in France. The opportunity oppor-tunity to be part of the exchange ex-change program was too valuable valu-able for him to turn down. ' The entire Christensen fami-; fami-; ly is delighted to have Bernd as 'a member of their family. Be-ifore Be-ifore his arrival they felt they should not form too much -attachment to Bernd. as it -would be too difficult to say goodbye when he returned to France, but with Bernd's winning win-ning personality and great sense of humor, this has been impossible and they have all broke down already. MR. AND Mrs. Christensen ;(Darwin and Sandra), and their three children. Mike 18, Stephen 14. and Valerie 10. said Bernd has added another dimension into their lives. From the first time they met, they had no difficulty relating to each other. He doesn't let ' things bother him and with his friendly personality he has been accepted readily into his new life and culture. With Mike able to speak French, they were able to com-municate com-municate easily with one another, until the rest of the family could learn some French so they could more readily understand Bernd. "IT'S A pleasure to have him around." stated Mrs. Christensen. "He likes all kinds of food with the exception excep-tion of root beer. He says it tastes like medicine. He fits right into the family and seems like he has always been with us." At Davis High he is enrolled in history, economics. English along with other subjects. He finds school much easier than in France so one might say he is "just cruising along." MR. CHRISTENSEN said one thing that bothered Bernd in the schools, he feels many students have disrespect for their teachers. In his homeland there is much stricter discipline, disci-pline, and they are more academically oreinted there. But Bernd has observed that his family in France is not so much family oriented as his American family. The Christensen family spends much time together involved in-volved in games, sports, outings, out-ings, and study. Stephen thinks Bernd is neat as he helps him with his algebra homework. home-work. BERND IS a talented musi cian. He plays the guitar and the electric guitar as well as the harmonica. At school his favorite favo-rite sport is soccer. He is also looking forward to skiing during dur-ing his winter stay in Utah. Bernd comes from a family of Jive. His father, Gunther Broker and mother Giseta with one older sister and a younger brother. His father is an international inter-national economist. Bernd plans to enter the university when he returns to Paris and continue his schooling. HIS Christmas in America was much the same. He received re-ceived many gifts and also from his family in France, but among his favorite was a huge box of cookies from his grandparents grand-parents a traditional gift. He finds the pastries here are much sweeter. On New Year's Eve, his parents called him to talk and he could hear the church bells ringing in the new year. It was midnight there, but was 3:30a.m. at the Christensen Christ-ensen residence. Mrs. Christensen said they are already looking forward to getting another exchange student stu-dent when Stephen gets to be a senior, but they are not sure they are going to let Bernd leave them. BERND LOVES his American Amer-ican family and is enjoying his stay in Utah. He likes Davis High and the warm welcome and fellowship the student-body student-body and faculty has extended to him. np |
