European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Time for lunch at the american elementary school in As another academic year gets by the stars and stripes theres no feeling like the first Day of anticipation and confusion and As students in department of defense dependents schools in Europe launched the 198586 school year this their emotions were a tera an eight grader at Rhei main Junior High in told i want to hit the books and get in charge of meet new she but i dread All the Book mean Eleveny Earold Mike Stepp of Munich elementary school Felt the its kind of fun going Back to if you get a teacher who is he firs Day feelings Jumble of Backoo school emotions photo by Peter Jaeger you you get to see All your friends and but id still rather stay Home and sleep the Start of school Means no More sleeping late or lazing theres the Hope of making friends or starting the sports and school year social theres also the panic of meeting new finding the Way through unfamiliar buildings and climbing aboard the right i have butterflies in my stomach because in really said 11yearold Denise Plumer As she started Junior High As a seventh grader at Rhein i dont know what kind of teachers i will in going to have a nervous starting Junior High is one of those rites of passage As traumatic As starting first Many of these students will be changing classes for the first dealing with As Many As five different teachers a Day and facing intimidating older seventh graders starting school at rushed in and out of the too excited to sit they teased each other and ran away every time seniors intimidated them with i feel like i am Back in said 12 year old Valerie they can Tell you Are a seventh grader and they laugh at you every time you happen to drop something or they even write the number seven on your Michelle an incoming seventh grader at had heard rumours of initiation Junior High is she they have initiation and throw although no spattered Yolks dotted the hallways or Michelle was if one came her in Gonna she by Days the worst was Over for i was terribly it got better As the Day went said Dana a 12yearold seventh grader at i was afraid i would continued on Page 14 August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13