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Language Week Active

B rioche, sopapilla, apfelkuchen, gaspacho. foreign language picnic and helped starving
These were just some of the foods children during the regular year.
students had a chance to try during
Spanish club sponsored a six-year old boy in
South America. His sister wrote letters back
Foreign Language Week Mar. 3-7.
During this week, the foreign language clubs which gave students an opportunity for real
did special things to help students relate to other contact in the Spanish language. They also sent
cultures. money to "Children for Children" . Besides this
A t-shirt day, a treasure hunt, guest speak- members enjoyed a taco eating contest in which
ers, a teachers' breakfast, and a potluck dinner Junior Brad Adwers downed 12 tacos to win.
were some of the activities sponsored during the French club members participated in
week. For other students, the school cafeterias "Children for Children" and also held a croissant
prepared a different ethnic food each day. breakfast.
The week itself provided an opportunity for German club raised money for the "Save the
students to get a break from the classroom routine Children" in Africa and USA for Africa. As a
of quizzes and reading assignments. In fact eating fundraiser they sold advent calendars.
the various foods was one of those outside For the department, learning came not just
benefits. from textbooks but from real cultural experi-
All three language clubs participated in the ences. Included in that experience was the ~
opportunity to travel to Europe this summer. •
186~ -C. Schaaf- During the potluck dinner singers Dave Dalton, Darin

Blunck , Kathy Kautz, Jeff Smith, Madra Wright , and Robyn
Bradsby provide entertainment. (photo by D. Nuechterlein)