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Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
When Gaby Ringleff arrived in the United States as a Youth For Understanding (YFU) exchange student, she had never in her life eaten com on the cob. That’s because in West Germany, where Gaby is from, only pigs and cows eat com on the cob. Human beings don’t touch the stuff.
Of course, then, what was it that Gaby’s host mother, Pat Helmer of Castleton, served for dinner on the first night of Gaby’s arrival? That’s right: a large bowl of delicious com on the cob. Poor Mrs. Helmer. She had no way of knowing.
Poor, poor Gaby. She had to eat it. Imagine the lump in her throat as she whispered to herself “That’s what pig’s eat.”
Gaby survived that dinner, and since then she has thrived on American cooking. She eats more in the U.S. than she ever did in Germany. Mrs. Helmer doesn’t seem to mind that. She said in an interview that Gaby is easy to please at the dinner table.
Gaby arrived in the U.S. on August 14 and will return to West Germany on July 9. According to Mr. Helmer, she may experience more culture shock when she goes home to Germany than when she first came to the U.S. “She has totally Americanized herself,” he said.
Gaby admitted that she was becoming less fluent in German. While in
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