Walk in their shoes [2022-2023]

Welcome to “Walk in their shoes”, a column where we showcase our foreign exchange students and their homes throughout the year. Chiara Puccia (‘24) was born in Sardinia, Italy – which she affectionately referred to as “the island in the middle of nowhere” – and “was kind of raised everywhere” in Italy. She grew up in Sicily but also spent time in Tuscany and Elba with her grandpa...

Welcome to “Walk in their shoes”, a column where we showcase our foreign exchange students and their homes throughout the year. Elena Boehme (‘25) is a foreign exchange student at MHS from Germany.  Boehme has enjoyed Colorado, even though the challenges that came with being a foreign exchange student proved to be trying. She mentioned the hardest part of being a foreign exchange student was homesicknes...

Welcome to “Walk in their shoes”, a column where we showcase our foreign exchange students and their homes throughout the year. Linda Hogan (‘24) is from Germany.  Hogan is incredibly grateful for her opportunity to study abroad in the United States. She said it's lovely in Colorado, but “of course [she’s] looking forward to going back [home]”. Her friends are the reason she decided...

Welcome to “Walk in their shoes”, a column where we showcase our foreign exchange students and their homes throughout the year. Carla Estudillo Fuentes ('24) is from Spain. Being a foreign exchange student is a very difficult decision to make. Estudillo expressed how hard it was to come to school in the United States since her English wasn't the best, “and it was hard to express [her]self”. ...

Welcome to “Walk in their shoes”, a column where we showcase our foreign exchange students and their homes throughout the year. Sofia Vilhelmsson (‘24) is an MHS foreign exchange student from Sweden. Vilhelmsson has enjoyed her stay in the U.S. so far, and is especially content with her decision to come to Colorado. “I’m happy I came to Colorado out of all places, it's beautiful here....

Welcome to “Walk in their shoes”, a column where we showcase our foreign exchange students and their homes throughout the year. Maria Eduarda Barbosa Abdelnor (‘24) is an MHS exchange student from Pará, Brazil. While attending school in the U.S., Abdelnor has enjoyed meeting new friends. She said something that took some time to get used to was "having just one subject in a classroom.”...

Welcome to “Walk in their shoes”, a column where we showcase our foreign exchange students and their homes throughout the year. Giorgia Torre ('24) is from Portoferraio, Italy. Torre said that at Mead High offers a lot of interesting classes, but of all her classes, her favorite is forensic science. She would love to have a job that involves crime and being part of the police force, which means this c...