Jisoo Park, Korean exchange student, becomes Scrapper after Delight High School closes

October 11, 2011 • Ashley Fatherree, 11th grade Staff Writer  
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Learning about new cultures, being away form your family and friends, and having all kinds of new experiences is all part of being a foreign exchanged student.

           JisooParkis a foreign exchanged student all the way fromSouth Korea. She wanted to be a foreign exchange student because she wants to experience life in another country besidesKorea.

            Her host family is Jerry and Polly McCammack. Jisoo has been inArkansassince January and she has to go back in December. She was going toDelightHigh Schoolbut it closed down so now she is attendingNashvilleHigh School. “I’m not ready to leave because I just came toNashville,” Jisoo said.

            If she was in Koreashe would be in 11^th grade but here she is in 10^th grade because she’s a foreign exchange student. She doesn’t know for sure if she will be in 11^th or 12^th grade when she goes back toKorea.

            She misses her family and friends, but she gets to chat with them every night on the computer. She also emails them and gets to call them, but not very often because that gets expensive.

            Things are more expensive here, butKoreais smaller and most everybody lives in an apartment.

            “I likeKoreaand theU.S.A.both because I think every country has advantages,” Jisoo said.

            She had to get used to the climate here because it isn’t as hot inKoreaas it is here. She also had to get used to the food here. The food inKoreais mostly spicy and here it’s greasy. “The first month I was here I didn’t like the food because it was greasy, so I didn’t eat a lot,” Jisoo said.

            “Being a foreign exchange student is cool because I get to experience new cultures,” Jisoo said.

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