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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Steve Wetton suffers from culture shock.
He’s from a large industrial city in England.
In England, they call soccer football.
The hood of a car is called a bonnet and the trunk is called a boot.
But those differences appear to be trivial to the exchange teacher who this fall takes over Scott Currie’s industrial arts classes at Rappahannock County High School.
“I lived in Birmingham where I could walk to supermarkets, and here I have to drive 30 minutes,” said Wetton, whose cultured accent stands out against that of his students who begin classes next week.
Industrial arts students will glean, first-hand, at least a fraction of the shock Wetton has endured since he arrived in this country last week.
They will also be learning more than woodworking during the coming school year. They will be learning about a different culture.
Wetton and Currie are participants in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange program. The Exchange is an international organization that selects and matches applicants from different countries who wish to teach in another country for a year. Applicants must have at least three years’ experience.
After Wetton arrived in the United States, Currie and his wife, Lisa, brought him to their home on Route 640 and spent the next few days showing him around before leaving for the Wetton home in England.
Wetton said that he has been to Warrenton, Culpeper, Woodstock, Flint Hill and to the school. “The school is about half the size of the one I’m coming from, but I think I’ll like the change,” Wetton said. He has been teaching for nine years, and Currie will be taking his place at Heathfield School in Birmingham, England.
What he has seen of the U.S. so far has been a surprise.
“I had always known that it is bigger than England, but the size is greater than I imagined,” Wetton said.
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