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Barbara Jamieson of Sperry ville.
“I thought that nothing could be more beautiful than Sweden, but the fall here was more beautiful,” said Camilla Josephson, a YFU exchange student from Karlstad, Sweden. She admits that there are not as many trees in Sweden as there are here.
Camilla recently visited relatives in Michigan with her YFU host family, the Von Fanges of Woodville. Michigan reminds her of Sweden. The weather is similar, and there are plenty of lakes. She sometimes visits her grandparents in northern Sweden, the land of the midnight sun. “We ski there in shorts and bathing suits,” she said. Camilla will be joining the Von Fange family for a ski trip to Snowshoe in the near future.
In Swedish schools, every day is different. Classes usually have between 21 and 30 students, and the same students are together for three years. “Beginning in the tenth grade, you can choose which school you want to go to in order to concentrate on a specific subject,” Camilla said. As with the other exchange students, her year here does not count toward graduation in her own country. Camilla is a junior here, but will have two more years to complete upon her return to Sweden.
Sports are not a part of the school system in Sweden. Camilla dances jazz, ballet, and plays soccer. She ran cross-country with the RCHS team this fall, and is presently on the varsity volleyball team. When the cross-country team ran at Virginia Tech in the fall. Camilla was very impressed with the school. She is thinking of applying there for • college.
“The school food here is very, very different. My mom here cooks a lot of food that I really like,” said Camilla. “In Sweden, my grandfathers hunt elk and give a lot to my family. We eat a lot of elk meat, fish and reindeer,” said Camilla.
Asked how she likes Rappahannock County, Maike Fruehling of Hamburg, Germany, replied, “It is just great. I really like it. It is totally flat around Hamburg. In the morning when I wake up here I can see the mountains.”
Maike is a junior at RCHS, and is spending her year with the Darby family in Woodville. She takes horseback riding lessons twice a week from Sherry Hamill-Huff, and has visited Richmond, Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, and Alexandria. She attends church with the
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