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The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet delivered music and an anti-smoking and drugs message.

The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet visited Trinity during House meetings this morning. Along with hot jazz, Aebersold delivered an anti-drug, anti-smoking message to students.

While sounds of jazz emanated from Steinhauser Gym, eight Argentinean exchange students arrived on campus. The students, who this year exchanged with Mercy, Assumption and Mount Saint Mary, gave a presentation to Spanish classes.  Under the direction of teacher Ms. Maria Martín and assisted by eight Trinity students, the guests, whose home school is Santa Ethnea, toured the campus and taped the day’s episode of TTV.

According to Principal Dan Zoeller, the hope is to further establish exchange possibilities for Trinity students.

Students from Argentina Visit THS

by Editor in Chief Ryan Kelly

There was much more Spanish being spoken in the halls of Trinity than usual on Feb. 9.  Eight students from Buenos Aires, Argentina, spent the day at Trinity.

All of the exchange students were females, which caused more Spanish dictionary use at Trinity than has been seen in a long time.

The students from Argentina arrived in the United States on Jan. 23 and planned to stay until Feb. 21.  The students are on the summer vacation between the Argentine equivalent of their sophomore and junior years.

The students are each staying with host families who have daughters that attend Assumption High School. The students’ normally attend classes at Assumption and participate in other planned cultural activities.

According to the students, the biggest differences between Argentine and American schools are that in Argentina they usually only have one teacher for all the subjects, and schools in Argentina are less restrictive than in the United States.

“You can walk around the school whenever you want,” according to one of the students.

The students attend a coed school in Argentina, so being in single-sex school is not typical for them. During the day at Trinity they said the highlight was having boys around again.  One student said the best part was “the senior and junior boys — the freshman and sophomore boys, no.”

Trinity world languages teacher Ms. Maria Martín helped organize the visit. “It’s really beneficial for Trinity students to create connections and interact with people from Spanish-speaking countries,” Martín said.

Of studying in the United States, one of the students said, “It really opens our minds.”

During their visit to Trinity the Argentine students were chaperoned by a Trinity student enrolled in an upper-level Spanish class.  The students spent first period giving a presentation about Argentina to several Spanish classes.

The PowerPoint presentation told Trinity students about Argentina’s government, geography and culture.  They also told the THS students about their school back in Argentina, Santa Ethnea.

Santa Ethnea, which was founded by the Sisters of Mercy, also has an exchange program with Mercy High School in Louisville and Mount St. Mary’s High School in Oklahoma City.

The presentation also included activities that the girls participated in through their school. Once the presentation was over, the students took questions, allowing the Trinity students to practice their Spanish and the Argentine students to practice their English.

During second period four of the Argentine students provided the talent for the day’s filming of TTV, Trinity’s daily televised broadcast. The students then took a tour of Trinity’s campus and rejoined their Trinity hosts for lunch.

Trinity Principal Dan Zoeller and Martín were also present.  The lunch period was filled with questions about life in Argentina and the students’ views of the United States.

After lunch the students made one more presentation to a different group of Trinity Spanish students and then headed back to Assumption.

Martín said, “It was a wonderful experience for all the students — and for me.”