{"id":14747,"date":"2025-02-04T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/?p=14747"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:09:12","slug":"elmira-high-school-welcomes-foreign-exchange-student-lukas-korsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/elmira-high-school-welcomes-foreign-exchange-student-lukas-korsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmira High School Welcomes Foreign Exchange Student Lukas Korsten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Foreign exchange student Lukas Korsten poses in front of Elmira High School. (Photo by Brooke Davis \/ Falcon News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One of Elmira High School\u2019s foreign exchange students this year is 17-year-old Lukas Korsten. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Korsten and his friend take a picture after one of their football games in Germany. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Korsten is here from Cologne, Germany. He loves to play football and got to play on Elmira High School’s varsity football team as a defensive back and wide receiver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korsten was asked what he likes about football at Elmira High School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There is a game every Friday,” he said. “In Germany we had four game days in one year and then practice every day.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He expressed his appreciation of Oregon’s scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI like the nature of Oregon and all of the greenery,\u201d Korsten said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korsten misses many things from Germany, mainly the schnitzel because it is his favorite food back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His favorite place to eat here is the food carts in Veneta. Korsten really likes the food from Morelos, one of the food carts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exchange student spends his Saturdays here watching college football and Sundays having a homemade brunch with his host family. Back home, Korsten used to spend his weekends playing video games and hanging out with his friends after all of his homework was done.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korsten likes the school system here better because he has a lot more classes back home during the school year, and he says this year is easier than previous years back home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korsten mentioned that if he were to go anywhere for a trip, he would want to travel back to New York City because it was cool and exciting the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is really looking forward to his future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to be in the military or move to Austria,\u201d Korsten told Falcon News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would love to live in Austria because it’s his favorite place that he’s traveled to so far. He enjoyed all of the scenery, mainly the mountains, which he likes a lot when he travels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He loves Oregon’s nature and American football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":14738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14747"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16878,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions\/16878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ehsfalconnews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}