PAGE 2, WHLTBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, .JLLY 13, 1988 Heny t. tuentreurn.s fom year -in Germany By Debbie Luchuk A Whitby girl -participated in the Rotary Club's annual exchange program for students this iast school vear.* Betheney Maheu, 19, lived in and attended school in a town near Dusseldorf, West Gerrnany this past year. Se lived with a host family, travelled, absorbed Germnan culture and learned the language. "Everythirig was really different, but the language bit the hardest," Maheu told The Free Press. She had no German ability before she left Canada. - "The whole culture and food was' different, and the East/West Bloc , division, was very interesting," she continued. 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High -sehool in Germany is from Gr. 5 to Gr. 13, and classes are over by noon," Maheu relates. Planning to attend Gr. 13 in the faîl, she says she now bas coniversational Germait Sbe worked as a volunteer at a seniors' borne teaching crafts, coacbed a cheerleading teani and worked (volunteer) at a local grocery store to learn the culture and learn more than formai German. Her favorite memnory is tbat of seeing tbe Berlin Wall for the first tume on a trip to tbat city. It was in a residential area, covered with graffiti. The guard towers were right tbere," she says. Maheu is finding is bard to adjust to being borne. "It's so difficult to corneborne. ini used te, being witb my 'otber family. Nve changed and aIl my' friends bave cbanged." 'She bas à 1ready applied to go on exchange with-the "Up* with people", group -'and has been accepted to go to Europe again in two years., Evansh.e-n * critical condition Terr Evansben of Brooklin, July 5. 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