24 Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 24, 1988 Rotary exchange student returns from down under ‘lm definitely glad I went. I would recommend it to everyone — it’s such agood opportunity,’” said Karen Karu of Terrace, who arrived home August 14 from Australia. She had been a Rotary exchange student there for exactly one year. by Pam Whitaker The Rotary Club of Terrace sponsors one exchange student each year. While Grade 11 Caledonia Senior Secondary stu- dent Karen Karu was on her way “down under’ to be welcomed by the Rotary Club in Mel- bourne, Australia, a student from West Germany was arriv- ing in Terrace. This student has since returned home. Janewa Osei-Tutu left for Mexico on Monday, Aug. 22, while Maria from Spain, will be disembark- ing at Terrace/Kitimat airport today. Karen enjoyed a range of ex- periences while she was in Melbourne. She stayed with six different families, seeing first- hand a cross section of family life. She said. that moving from family to family was not a hard- ship for her. ‘‘About the only time I wasn’t enjoying myself was in January. I had a terrible sunburn and was thinking of ski- ing in Terrace.’’ Karen said she did not see the sweeping plains she had imagin- ed or get to the ‘‘outback’’, but did see a sheep farm, a banana plantation, went skiing, panned for gold, and rode a camel! She also rode on Puffing Billy, a steam-powered train, trekked golden sandy beaches and swam in the south sea. One day when when a group that went bushwalking (hiking), a wild kangaroo went hopping across the path. She saw noctur- nal Koala bears in their natural habitat, birds such as Rosellas and Kookaburras. and different exotic. The homes she stayed in were all made of brick, as Australia does not enjoy the softwood timbered forests that Canada does. The forests there are main- ly a variety of hardwood eucalyptus. Most of Karen’s host families lived in the Melbourne district of Broadmeadows. ‘‘Despite its name,’’ Karen said, ‘“‘it was hil- ly. And when I arrived, it was raining, so I felt quite at home.”’ Not so when her hosts were driving on the ‘‘wrong”’ side of the road. Although she had ex- pected it, she did find it un- nerving. The Browns, retired delicates- san owners, were her first fami- ly. The Grangers with three chil- dren at home were her second. Karen spent Christmas with the Frys, a newspaper family. Fry was an editor for several associated newspapers in the area. Jimmy Motsei, a South African student, also spent Christmas there. The hottest part of the year, mid-February to mid-March, was spent at Lunds in Essendon. Karen was grateful that this home had a swimming pool. The Lawrences were in clothing manufacturing and had two grown daughters and a grown son, A Japanese girl who had once lived with the Law- rences as an exchange student had returned to stay with them and improve her English while ‘working ina Japanese-run travel agency. The last family Karen resided with was the Willis family. Mr. Willis was a dental technician. They had a fluffy cat who made Karen feel at home. Before leaving Australia for B.C., Karen had an opportunity to visit Expo 88 in Brisbane. An exchange student who had pre- viously been in Terrace, Narelle Stubbs, lives at Port MacQuarie, and Karen was able to visit her on the way through the area. ‘*T was really impressed by the Canadian Pavilion at Expo 88,” Karen said. She also enjoyed The Pavilion of Promise, a Canadian structure that had been shipped to Australia from Expo 86. . ‘*} was sad to leave Australia as I have made so many good friends,’ Karen explained. “Someday I would like to go back and work for a year or two or get a university transfer there so I can see them again. Mean- while, it’s good to see my friends here and to graduate with them.”’ When asked what she got the most out of her exchange stu- dent experience, Karen replied, ‘“Because of the questions people asked me. I learned about Canada! I became very patriotic.” Exchange studen Janewa Osei-Tutu left Terrace Monday for a year in Mexico as a Rotary exchange student. The 17-year-old Cal grad will be at- tending a community college there and staying with the family of the local Rotary president in San Luis Patosoi, a city of 800,000 north of Mexico City. ‘It’s exciting, but it makes me a little nervous, too, especially with a different language Scholarshipwinners W.L. Sturn, principal of Caledonia Senior Secondary School says he’s very pleased with the results of the B.C. provincial scholarship examinations released Monday. To qualify for a $1,000.00 scholar- ship, students had to achieve a total standardized score of at least 1699 in their three best scholarship examination results. The lowest allowable score in any examination was 475, The 11 successful Caledonia graduates are: Colin Brehaut (1779) — Algebra (576); Biology 12 (588); Chemistry 12 (593); History 12.(598); Physics 12 (522). Inness Campbell (1711) — Biology 12 (572); English Literature 12 (555); History 12 (584). Sara Chen-Wing (1930) — Algebra 12 (657), Biology 12 (630); Chemistry 12 (643); Geography 12 (604); Physics 12 (603). Surrinder Deol (1724) — Algebra 12 (546); Biology 12 (652); History 12 (526). Adam Ford (1877) — Algebra 12 (495); Biology 12 (630); Chemistry 12 (653); Geography (594). Peter Hepburn (1880) —. Algebra 12 (576); Biology 12 (651); Chemistry 12 (576); English Literature 12 (615); French 42 (581); History 12 (614). Binder Kandola (1766) -~ Biology 12 (560); Chemistry 12 (666); Physics 12 (540). . Shawnee Love (1879) — Algebra 12 (613); Biology 12 (558); Chemistry 12 (652); Geography 12 (614); History 12 (499). David Long Vu (1808) — Algebra 12 (511); Biology 12 (699); Chemistry 12 (598); Physics 12 (491). Christine Weber (2024) — Algebra 12 (601); Biology 12 (750); English Literature 12 (670); French 12 (604); Geography 12 (600). David Weismiller (1759) — Biology 12 (612); Chemistry 12 (570); English Literature 12 (536); History 12 (577). According to Bill Sturn, these results are much better than those of 1986 and 1987 when students won eight and five provincial scholarships respectively. He said much credit goes to the successful recipients and their teachers for these excellent results. there,’’? she told the Terrace Review. Osei-Tutu has been studying Spanish with Tirso Morales, but only since June. “I hope to learn Spanish, learn about the country and the peo- ple, see how they live. I’m curious to find out if people here in Terrace are different than in Mexico.”’ She'll also be teaching other young people she meets and her host family, who have a nine- year-old daughter and a 16-year- old son who will be on a Rotary exchange in Vancouver, about Canada. Improving interna- tional understanding is the overall goal. Rotary clubs provide the room and board and a monthly allowance while the students are Back in Terrace, after a year in Australia as a Rotary ex- change student, Karen Karu displays a very internatlonal- looking jacket. leaves for JANEWA OSELTUTU: I’m curious to find out if peo- pie here in Terrace are dif- ferent than in Mexico. Lots of pavement laid The 1988 paving program in Terrace is the most ambitious in many years. According to Superintendent of Public Works Stew Christensen, the paving portion of this year’s program alone is about two and a half times larger than last year and at least as large as all the paving projects completed in the past three years. Christensen says that in some cases major reconstruction work was necessary to upgrade roads such as Hamer and Tuck, a carry-over from last year’s budget, in order to install a pro- per roadbed. He says that the original work was done in the 1960’s and that the council of the time chose what was prob- ably the best of two options. With capital available to them, he says, they could have paved a few roads, meaning many would probably still be gravel, or they could pave a number of roads by using a substandard base and avoiding the major expense of installing an approved base. According to Christensen, the roads built in this ‘“economical” fashion in the 1960’s were good for about 10 to 15 years and many are still in good shape. But a few, like Tuck, Hamer and Halliwell, have settled leaving potholes and an uneven surface that needs to be replaced with a proper roadbed and drainage before being resurfaced. Christensen says that to date, the west portion of Halliwell has been completed by Terrace Pav- ing and the Lakelse Ave. project at the west approach to the old Skeena bridge has been finished by Kentron Construction. He addes that a small portion of the Mexico responsible for the airfare. “] thought it would be neat to live in another country that’s. quite different from Canada.” She thought Mexico would be more interesting than western nations like England or Ger-. many, she said. An interview and an orientation session in Vancouver in June foliowed. The young woman is no stranger to travel, having seen “9 bit of London and France”’, and she spent a school year with relatives in Ghana, Africa with her brother a number of years ago. Her future plans include university study, probably in the sciences, and more travel — next time to Australia or southern Europe. this year Lakelse project, at the corner of Apsley and Lakelse, will be com- pleted in the near future. He says that work currently being done by Kentron on the Graham, Hamer and Tetrault St. projects should be completed in about two to three weeks but adds that a portion of Braun, between Agar and Haugland, will have to wait for about another three weeks. He explain- ed that the delay is necessary to aliow residents 30 days to object to the project if they wish. In total, says Christensen, when this year’s projects are complete, the city will have spent over $1.3 million — $280,000 on storm sewer maintenance and improvements, about $700,000 on roadbed reconstruction and approx- imately $351,000 on pavement. -