European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Iii Isi Harika Blakeney 18, attends in Ciurlik High school. Quot ills Greal. You get so Many privileges. The classes Are not As hard. There s not a big social life. Everybody goes to the Aya the Guys go to the gym. Just walk around with somebody on base. All my Money goes to food in a big school i d be lost in the  Ayanna Parris 18, spent the last six years at in Ciurlik a. Quot we have people who Are off the Wall. I m on the Edge. At most High schools everybody is separated into groups. We re not like that. We just hang out together even when we re off Campus. I Don t think we have those we Don t like. You just can to pick out somebody and say i can t stand that  Quot Eddie Balleza 17, transferred to in Ciurlik High school As a Sophomore from a California High school with 2,000 students. Quot you get to know everybody pretty Well. I done to have any enemies. In a vice president of the senior class vice president of student Council in National Honor society and play Tennis and basketball. But i d rather be Over there in the United states than Over  Jose Hernandez 17, arrived in in Ciurlik 17 months ago after attending san Gorgonio High school in san Bernadino calif., along with 2,000 other students. Quot i found out i was coming Here the Day after Christmas we used to get in cars go cruising go to Mcdonald a Taco Bell or go to a make out Point at first you Don t adjust Here. Some of us Are close. We usually go to the movies or the Aya or go disco  Larry Stewart 17, spent the Iasi i Izmir. He plans to join the air Force Al and to marry his turkish Girlfriend. Quot a something and it gets around the Soli you get drunk and you think you re who knows about it but these people and say a we know you got drunk i turkish friends. I walk Down the spree turkish Young men give me these i laugh at them. That a what ticks the that i m so popular with the  Page 14 the stars and stripes a a a ���?�v.v.-. Angela Faber 18, h,a�?Tt0j since the ninth Grade. I hang people than i do Amer Icari. Them at All. On the weekend and count the Days until the y leave. We have All these n p want to do anything. We l. B senior class trip this Yeai senior party but they h Everoy mond Angela Grimm 17, has spent the last eight years at in Ciurlik. A in a school like this you know everybody and everybody knows you. In a bigger school you would be lost in things and feel like you done to belong. But going to a Small school like this there Sall this gossip and that a no fun at  sat a atm fast Erson p to you i with my Ese Guys i just of school turkish with a a Plain ant to y done to have a a ,1990 Sevda Balut 17, is senior class president at in Ciurlik High school. Quot i done to think we do a lot socially. Every Day after school everybody is doing sports. I think a bigger school would be neat because in be always been in a class with no More than 40 kids. But i done to think i would be class president unless i was charismatic. In a bigger school one person would not be in All these sports plus class president plus student  Holly Huff 17, is senior class president at Izmir High school. Quot you be got to beat kids Over the head to try to get the kids to do something. In the states you can go to your Friend s House any time you want. Here you find yourself a lot of times with no one to talk to since you re limited to the people at  everybody has a voice High school students in t Turkey speak out by Dave Walczak staff writer every High school student has a Strong opinion when a the student is a american. # the setting is Turkey. A the subject is senior year. John Taylor thinks he knows Why. Taylor has spent the last 14 years teaching history humanities and English at Izmir High school. He is also a frequent senior class adviser. Taylor insists that a spectrum of opinion among students is natural in a Small school. Quot when i was in High school we had 600 in the graduating class. I did t even know those people. So you just went along with everything that was going on out of pure ignorance. Quot Here since everybody has a voice there Are a variety of  such As Quot i really love it Quot said senior Andrew Mullin 18. Quot you just have 23 people and you just stick with them Quot such As Quot i hate it Quot said senior Angela Faber 18. Quot some of the students have Only been Here three or four months and they want things to be the Way they Are in the states. You can to do anything to please them opinions on the senior year experience were As Strong As turkish Coffee at in Ciurlik High school As Well. There 19 students Are about to wind up their High school careers. Quot last year we were really close Quot said Sevda Balut the class president. Quot this year i think everybody is getting sick of each  but Sevda a classmate Chris Kane said hell miss the Comra Derie of a close knit group in the fall when he plans to join about 29,000 other undergraduates at Penn state University. Quot you know everybody at in Ciurlik by name and i like it that Way. I m used to being with people i can identify by name or face. Going to Penn state. Is going to be  there were no expressed differences about graduation a at least concerning the place and Date. Izmir High school has scheduled its ceremonies for wednesday at Pergamo. In Ciurlik High school officials plan to bid the class of 1990 Good Bye tuesday in ceremonies inside the High school courtyard. But Post graduation festivities were under debate. One senior wants everyone to go to a disco another wants a senior class Beach Bash. A third wants to leave the americans behind and spend time with his turkish friends. One senior shrugged off the differences. 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