NEW STUDENT ALERT
By:Alysha Griffin
“I don’t think there’s anything Wyoming can do differently to make the school better.” Edward Biesterfeld is a new foreign exchange student this year for Wyoming. Eddie comes from Berlin, the capital of Germany, and he has been here for 3 months now. Eddie likes to play the playstation a lot. He plays soccer for Wyoming highschool for his senior year. Eddie says his favorite color is blue, he calls it basic. He likes rap music.”I don’t really like German music,” he says.”Some of them are good,but most of them are trash.”
Eddie became an exchange student because his mom was one when she was younger. Being in the U.S Eddie has had to learn to switch from English to German everyday. He says,” At first I was really tired because I had to concentrate the whole time to understand things. Now it’s quite easy.” In Germany the grading system is different. Eddie says,” Instead of letters we have numbers, like 1 for an A, etc.” He says that in Germany they are required to learn English from the first grade.
Eddie’s thoughts on Michigan are the same as everyone else. He says,” I like it but it’s a bit boring. There are things to do but you need a car to go.” He says,” I’m not used to that,in Germany we just have public transportation for everything.” Eddie’s old school and Wyoming are very different. “ I would say this school is way more modern and has way more money.My old school was just falling apart, we needed to get in a new building,and here there’s laptops and everything,we didn’t have that.”
As Eddie is an exchange student he lives with a host family. “It was weird at first, I felt uncomfortable but now I’m getting used to it.” Eddie did not get to choose what state he could go to school in.” The parents chose me,but I would have gone somewhere else.” What motivates him is food.Eddie has only tried 1 new thing since he has been here,tacos. He really likes them.
Eddie feels very welcomed at Wyoming High school he says,” I have a lot of friends already that like me. I think it’s because I’m new and German.” Eddie is a very nice and friendly person. Let him feel welcomed at Wyoming High School.