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dialed the German Embassy after hearing clipped and precise English with a Deutchland accent at the other end of the line.
The mysterious phone voice with tones so different from those of rural Virginia hills belongs to Kirsten Tiemer, 16-year-old foreign exchange student from Bremen, Germany. Under the auspices of Youth For Understanding, an exchange jjrogram which sends young men and women from Germany to ' the United States, Kirsten is spending a year in Rappahannock.
Kirsten, who plans to be a foreign correspondent, felt she needed a knowledge of other customs and cultures to help her break into a difficult field. After spotting an advertisement for AFS exchange programs in her local paper, she applied there first, hoping to find a temporary home in the U. S. or another overseas country. ‘‘They didn’t take me so then I applied to YFU which sends us only to America.” She grinned widely. “Now I’m happy that I am here and not some place else overseas.”
She’s had a few weeks to get acclimated since her arrival on August 1 and is as ready for the start of school as any other youngster facing an end to idle days of summer. She’ll be a junior this year at Rappahannock County High School where she’ll take U. S. history, biology, honors English, typing, French III and algebra II. The only difference is that no matter how well she does, even with straight “A’s”, she’ll have to repeat her junior year when she returns to Germany. “This year here doesn’t count,” she explained.
Kirsten has already jumped into the life of an American teenager by trying out for the RCHS girls basketball team. She’s
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