After a break from hosting foreign exchange students due to Covid, seven students joined the Longhorn community. In honor of International Students’ Day, get to know them below:
After seeing a poster for the Poetry Out Loud competition in her English teacher’s classroom, junior and foreign exchange student Cecilia Olmedilla entered and won the schoolwide competition last December....
More than 4,407 miles away from home, junior Cecilia “Sisi” Olmedilla began a new adventure in St. Louis, August 2021. Olmedilla was born and raised in Madrid, Spain and came to the U.S. to continue...
After finding out about a scholarship opportunity to be an exchange student in Germany, senior Hayden Sampson applied, got accepted and spent the year in Hamburg, Germany.
When Hayden was in eighth...
Sophie Gulino, Convergent Media Writer
• October 13, 2017
Although the vast majority of students live within twenty minutes of school, junior Moritz Riss had to cross an ocean from his home in Southwest Germany to attend Parkway West.
Riss is a member of the...
On May 24, foreign exchange student Ana Worpvik will be heading home to Norway after spending a year as a member of the senior class of 2016.
“I’m leaving very soon and I have less than a month...
It might seem scary to travel halfway across the world to spend a week with an unknown family at the age of nine. However, 29 Taiwanese students and 14 chaperones took up the challenge! Sponsored by the...
