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Show P.C. High School student heads for Kenya Wednesday morning may have been just another work day for most Parkites. But not for Josselyn Neukom. Before the sun was up, the Park City High School sophomore was on her way to Mombasa, Kenya where she will spend the year as an American Field Service Exchange Ex-change Student. Neukom will spend the year living with a Kenyan family and attending Star of the Sea High School in Mombasa. She will return to Park City Jan. 3, 1985. Neukom was one of six Park City students who applied to the American Field Service (AFS) Exchange Ex-change program. Three were asked to attend a final screening in New York. Four weeks ago Neukom received word of her acceptance accep-tance and the news that she had been assigned to a family in Mombasa, Kenya. She said the father of the family is a marine engineer and the mother is a bilingual interpreter. "I couldn't have got a better family," she said. Neukom will meet her new mom in New York today and then will fly via Brussels to Nairobi with other AFS students. "I know that after a year Kenya will be a big part of me," she said. Tuesday night Neukom's friends, including AFS returnees re-turnees Andrea Peterson and Becky Stover and AFS student Ana Irigoyen, surprised sur-prised her with a bon voyage party. "I was thrilled. We'd been having finals all week and hadn't had time to see each other," she said. Neukom's year abroad has been made possible in part because Park City has hosted several foreign exchange ex-change students. According to current AFS host Amanda Peterson, the local AFS chapter is currently looking for a family to host a student next year. Interested families fami-lies may call Peterson for more information at 649-8365. |
