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German Student Transfixed by Transcendentalists
Student found an apartment in Concord during a tourist visit.
As a 16-year-old high school student, Jasmin Duecker left her native Cologne, Germany, for a year to study abroad. Jasmin arrived in the Tampa, Florida, area where she hoped to improve her English-speaking skills as an exchange student at Land O’Lakes High School. The move was more than she expected in the beginning. “It was quite a shock when I first came to Florida,” said Jasmin, now 25 and highly proficient in English. “I couldn’t handle all the consumerism and stuff. There was a cheerleader-state attitude. Everything was all about good looks.” But once ensconced in Ms. Lachotta’s literature class, Jasmin’s impression of America as a consumer-driven society was quickly overshadowed by Thoreau’s “Walden.” “I was interested in Walden and …
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Stefanie Cloutier
6:57 am on Monday, March 7, 2011
Very interesting! And I love that the locals opened themselves up to her, and helped her to fully experience Concord. Really nice... more ›