A Letter from Mariam Gachechiladze
Mariam Gachechiladze, Junior Reporter
March 25, 2020
A Letter to MSHS, As exchange students, we worry about adapting to our new society; adapting and making friends, good impressions, overcoming the language barriers that, at times, makes it so hard for us to speak up, take the first step and be ourselves to a full extent. As exchange students, we w...
Editorial: America Has an American Problem in Need of an American Solution
Oda Tiller-Brattebø, Senior Reporter
April 12, 2019
It is February 14th, 2018 and I’m sitting in the couch with my mom as images flash at us from the TV screen. It is from the United States of America, a place I’ve always thought of as a safe haven; a place full of freedom and liberty. We watch as helicopter after helicopter passes over Stoneman Douglas Hi...
Homecoming Away From Home
Allie Robbins and Oda Tiller-Brattebø
October 2, 2018
Manitou Springs High School (MSHS) is hosting 10 exchange students from around the world for the 2018-19 school year. There are students from Spain, Norway, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia and the Czech Republic. Although, at MSHS, there is an annual celebration that most exchange students are ...
Anywhere But Home: Asma Rassem
Sage Stevens, Reporter
February 19, 2016
Sage Stevens Asma Rassem (12) is from the port city of Al Hudyah, Yemen. She graduated last year, but is now a self-titled "Super Senior," as a result of her program not allowing her to return home to Yemen. Unlike most exchange students, she has no idea when she might return home, and when she does whe...
Azerbaijani student comes to America
December 10, 2012
This year MSHS has a surprising number of foreign exchange students; Nazrin Agharzayeva is one of the 9 exchange students. Agharzayeva is from Azerbaijan and is spending her first year of University attending Manitou Springs High School through the FLEX program. Q: Why did you come to America? A: America was...
