Personal Interview with Elsa Abergel

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Personal Interview with Elsa Abergel

By Jessica Fruehbrodt, Germany

Basic Questions

  1. Where are you from and how does your hometown/-city look like?

I’m from Belgium in Antwerp. It is a pretty small city but really nice.

  1. When you compare it with Santa Barbara, CA do you think your hometown is similar to this city? Where are the differences?

My home city is really different compared to Santa Barbara. The city where I come from is a lot bigger than SB. Our downtown is much bigger than State Street and Paseo Nuevo.

  1. Do you have siblings? Do you already miss your family?

Yes I have one brother and one sister. I’m the middle one. Yes I miss them but I’m already excited to see them soon because I’m going back to Belgium to spend the holidays with them.

  1. Have you ever been to the USA before? And where have you been exactly when you answer that with ‘yes’?

Yeah I’ve been here for a few times. I’ve visited Washington, Miami, Philadelphia, and right now I’m enjoying my life here in California.

  1. Are there any other cities or state that you want to visit while you’re here in Santa Barbara?

I definitely want to see Las Vegas. That will be my last trip here in California because I’ve already been to San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  

Unusual, open-ended Questions

  1. What would be your first reaction if a shark attacks you while you’re surfing?

I would get a heart attack because I’m really afraid of sharks. That’s also the reason why I don’t go into the water at all.

  1. You’re going to transfer to Boston soon. Why did you choose this city? Aren’t you afraid of the cold?

I choose this city because it is the biggest EF school in the United States of America and also because my best friend goes to university there. I’m not afraid of the cold because I’m used to it because it is also really cold in my home city.

  1. What was your most awkward situation ever?

When I was in the plane I was talking about a girl sitting next to me and I said to my friend that I’m sitting next to the ugliest person ever. I didn’t realize that she also spoke French and understood me.

  1. When you could decide where would you like to spend the rest of your life where would that be?

I would move to London, England.

  1. When you would be stranded on a lonely island. With whom would you want to be with?

I would want to be there with my best friend.

Sam van Aerde

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10 questions

  1. What is your name/where are you from/how old are you?
    Sam van Aerde/Utrecht in the Netherlands/17 years old
  2. What kind of sports do you like?
    I like soccer
  3. What made you come here to the United States?
    My parents kind of forced me.
  4. How long will you stay in the United States?
    6 months in total.
  5. Do you have brothers and/or sisters?
    I have one sister called Eva.
  6. Which girl do you like most on EF?
    anna/faye
  7. What is the worst thing in the United States?
    the drinking age
  8. Who is your favorite roommate?
    Cas Melk
  9. Are you happy with your looks?
    Of course but it can always be better.
  10. Who is the most annoying person you know?
    Rutger

Interview with Carro

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Faye van Buren, the Netherlands

  1. What is your name?

Caroline (Carro) Magnusson

2. Where are you from? What do you like about your city?

I am from Lund in Sweden. I like Lund because It’s very cultural.

3. How old are you?

I am twenty years old

4. Do you have any siblings?

I have one sister.

5. Where do you live in Santa Barbara?

I live up State Street in a host family.

6. What would you do if you won 1 million dollars?

I would pay off my loans, buy a house and start a business.

7. What’s your favorite country you’ve been in?

My favorite country I’ve been in is South Africa.

8. Why did you choose to go to Santa Barbara?

I wanted to study in the United States but it was too expensive.

9. What’s your favorite thing you’ve done while being here?

Meeting American people.

10. What is your dream job?

My dream job is to start a business in dog psychology.

 

Interview with Clara Wagner

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By Camilla M. Frederiksen, Greenland

I Have interviewed Clara Wagner, Clara is 21 and she’s from France.frankrig

She have finished university in France, she studied marketing at the university.

Her plan is to study business after she finishes, her school year here in Santa Barbara EF.

Clara’s favorite cake is fruit cake and her favorite sports game is volleyball.

If she has to choose three tings to bring to an Ireland, she would take her pillow, phone and her best friend with her.

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If Clara’s house starts burning and she had 60 seconds to take what she can take, she would take her pictures because the pictures are memories for her, passport, wallet and her grandfathers ring that mean a lot to her.

And for the last, the country she want to visit next time she travels is Thailand.o-THAILAND-facebook.jpg

 

About Faye

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What is your name?

My name is Faye Van Buren.faye

How old are you?

I am 17 years old.

Where are you from?

I am from the Netherlands.

What languages do you speak?

I speak Dutch and English.

 

 What made you decide on going to Santa Barbara?

My mom had been here and she told me it was very beautiful and a good sized city. And I wanted to go somewhere warm.

What is your favorite thing to do in the States?

My favorite thing to do in the States is to go out and eat, especially pizza. I also enjoy travelling and visit different places.

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

South Africa.

What would you do if you won $1 million?

I would buy a house in Spain, and all different kinds of stuff that I want.

What are your life goals?

I want to find something that I want to study that I would enjoy working with. Then I would like to start a family.

 

By Carolina Magnusson, Sweden

 

Interview With Kelly Taramarcaz, Switzerland

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Annabelle Hoogakker, The Netherlands

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Do you have siblings?
She has one little brother

What is the nicest thing you can do in your city?
Shopping, to drink with friends

What do you think about Santa Barbara?
It’s a beautiful city but a little bit small

What is your favorite color?
Her favorite color is pink.

Who is your favorite artist?
Vekfeu

What would be the last thing you would do before you die?
To hold up a bank

What is the thing you are most ashamed of you have ever done?
She is ashamed of her ex-boyfriend.

What was the strangest punishment you parents ever gave you?
Her parents never gave her a punishment.

What is the man of your dreams like?
Nekfeu. He has to be a bad boy with a small heart.

If you could be anyone in history, who would it be?
Marilyn Monroe

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How Does a Plane Fly?

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A Stop-Motion Movie made by Jan Lubes (GER), Leo Schrot (GER), Julian Talou (fra) 🙂

This movie gives an explanation about the physical forces which eventually allow a plane to fly.

Fast Food

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By – Annabelle Hoogakker and Willemijn Vos, The Netherlands

We are going to tell you something about a specific American thing: fast food. Fast food is globally really famous but specially in America. We think that fast food a big reason is for obese. It began with the first fish and chip shops in Britain in the 1860s. Drive-through restaurants were first popularized in the 1950s in the United States. You have a lot of reasons why people buy fast food. For example, it is cheap, you don’t have to make something buy yourself, you don’t have dishes afterwards, it is ready really fast, and you can pick it up after work. We think fast food will work as an addicting. When you ate it for one time and you like it, you will take it more and more times because it is easy. That’s the reason that a lot of American people have too much weight.

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McDonald’s is one of the biggest fast food restaurants globally; daily they serve approximately 68 million customers in 119 countries across 36,615 restaurants around the world. McDonald’s was established on May 15th 1940, in San Bernardino, California by Richard and Maurice McDonald’s. The restaurants serve hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken product’s, French fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes and desserts, but they added salads, wraps, smoothies and fruits to the menu. There is a lot of criticism against the McDonalds. Large cities like Chicago and New York are accusing the McDonald’s menu of being a threat to American health, and they blame McDonald’s for persuading people to eat more fast food, especially children. With their happy meal, play grounds and commercials they tempt children to buy fast food for a toy or to come and play. McDonald’s response to the criticism is that it is the people’s own responsibility to stay healthy. The people choose to eat fast food and they know it is unhealthy.

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We interviewed two people from the EF school about fast food. We asked them the same questions. Their answers were surprisingly really similar. Both didn’t like fast food that much, but if they had to go to a fast food restaurant they would choose The Habit. They both thought that fast food restaurants cause obese because it is easier, quicker, and cheaper and you don’t have to cook yourself.

 

USA Experience

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By: Amanda Svensson- Sweden Klara Ek- Sweden Eva Selderbeek- Netherlands

The purpose of this video was to share our experience since coming to the United States. Since we been here we have been on a lot of road trips. Our first trip was to Las Vegas, where we had our first encounter with the real Las Vegas life. We drove through the strip, visited the casinos and even saw a Swedish comedian called Johan Glans.

The second trip we went on was to Los Angeles. We took the train to get there, which was quite an experience. The view from the train was spectacular, it involved a lot of the seaside and many palm trees. While we were there we went to two concerts, one of them was The 1975 and the other one was KYGO. During the day, we visited the known highlights, such as the walk of fame and the Hollywood sign.

Aside from our weekend trips, we also managed to see some of Santa Barbara’s highlights. For example, we went hiking and visited the Santa Barbara Zoo. This was our first experience with traveling through the United States.