We have a few foreign exchange students at North, one of them is Jenna Kuahanen. Jenna is junior from Finland, she’s been here since the end of August and she leaves at end of June. She is staying with Alissa Wheeler. What she likes most about North are the afterschool activities because the only sports at her other school are basketball and soccer. Currently she is in the girl’s track team. She was also part of the cross country team and skiing. “School is a lot easier here, we get a lot more work and go faster in Finland” she said when asked about school differences.
While being here in the US she has visited lots of places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, and Arizona. Her favorite place by far is New York because she got to see and visit a lot of cool places like the Empire State building, Time Square, Staten Island, and Central Park.
“I eat a lot of junk food here.” Her favorite foods are pizza and chocolate chip cookies. “Chipotle is my favorite restaurant.” The only thing she doesn’t like about America is the candy. “I don’t like American candy like skittles or starbursts.” Boys around the world are different, according to Jenna American boys are cuter than Finnish boys.
So far she has been in Minnesota for about 10 month, her family and friends are what she misses the most. Communicating with someone across the world is kind of hard but Jenna skypes with her family once a week.
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