Winter Orientation

All of the outbounds (students preparing to leave on their exchange), inbounds (students currently on exchange), and rebounds (students that have returned from their exchange) travelled to Wasilla, Alaska (nearby Anchorage, Alaska) for the Rotary Exchange Winter Orientation where students learn about ethnocentrism (a culture believing their culture to be the sole correct and best culture) and ethnorelativism (the aquired ability to recognize a culture's behaviors and values are cultural rather than universal) from Dennis White, an expert with a PhD in the subject.

Rebounds wore grey shirts. Inbounds wore red shirts. Outbounds wore green shirts.

Group posing before everyone leaves to travel home.

(From left to right) Jonah (going to Czech Republic), Grace (going to Switzerland), me, Maryellen (going to Peru), and Veronica (rebound from Mexico)

After leaving the Wasilla Sports Center, Ketchikan and Petersburg students went to an Anchorage movie theatre as well as the Dimond Mall. Pictured is (from top left to right) Bruno Henrique Caetano (Inbound from Brazil to Petersburg), me, Conor Wodehouse (rebound from Ketchikan to South Africa), (from bottom left to right) Max Gonzalez (inbound from Pueblo, Mexico), Theresa Nordlund (Outbound from Ketchikan to Bolivia), and Bertille Gautron (Inbound from France to Ketchikan, AK). The movie we (and others not pictured) saw is called Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse