Taking a break
Break is chance to explore
by Rias Mohamed
Kansan staff writer
For some foreign students, San Francisco, a ski resort in Colorado or New York City isn't too far to visit during Spring Break. For others, the break is too short to leave Lawrence.
lehwein Neichriss is planning a trip to San Francisco to take photographs for a magazine that his sister works for in Osnabrueck, West Germany.
"Taking pictures is my hobby. I've never done anything professional," he said.
Nissen, Geling, West Germany, junior, said he had about 3000 slides that he took during his earlier travels in the United States for first visit to the United States was in 1985.
He returned to the United States as a student in Fall 1986. Nissen said he wives San Diego during the 1987 Spring Break and South Padre Island, Texas, during the 1988
States was in 1850. Nissen said he traveled to Washington, D.C., Miami, and San Diego before he went back to Germany.
bread.
"The timing of the break is just ideal; you can get out of your schooling," he said.
Boud Wellink, a Netherlands exchange student, is going with three friends to Colorado.
"This time of the year, we either have to go to the beach or skiing." Wellink said. "I am not the beach type, and we decided to go skiing."
Neither he nor his friends have skied before, Wellink said. He and his friends hope to take skiing lessons in Silver Creek, Colo., and then go to Winter Park, where they have reserved a condominium for two nights.
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David Fairhurst, an exchange student from ABSystwyth, Wales, said that he planned to visit New York City because he had visited Los Angeles during the winter break, and those two cities were the major tourist attractions.
Fairhurst decided to visit New York City with a friend after browsing through guide books and maps.
books at the European think New York is that American is like or that it is a typical American city," Fairhirst said. "But it isn't, My stay in America is not complete I don't see New York. It's one of those things that people link with America."
Chris Neophytou just plans to stay in Lawrence.
Neophytum, Nicosia, Cyprus, senior, said Spring Break should be a time of rest.
Spring break should "We have exams and tests just before the break, and we need rest after that," he said. "One week is hardly enough to go on
vacation."
vacation.
Kapil Kapoor, New Delhi, India, senior,
said that he was going to get his job
applications and resume work done during
Spring Break because he was graduating
this semester. Kapoor, who transferred
from a New York university, said he hadn't
made enough friends with whom he would
like to travel.
"I would like to go to Florida," Kapoor said. "I've been hearing that students go there for Spring Break, have booze and things like that, but I just haven't found a fun group of friends I can go with."
Belfast Montgomery, an exchange student from Belfast, Northern Ireland, said he had no plans for Spring Break and would most likely stay in Lawrence.
"I's a pity I can't go anywhere," Montgomery said. "I'd like to see America as much as possible. I went to New York and Boston in the winter break and spent too much money there."
Montgomery said that he would be seeing more of the United States before he went back to Northern Ireland in July.
"I'll be traveling on my Visa card then," he said, "the go home and pay the money. I don't want to start extending the credit this early."
26 KANSAN Taking a break/March 1, 1989