Having someone you have never met before live in your house for three weeks is weird. No one can deny that. It also forces you to get to know them quickly. And this is just what the German exchange did.
“An immediate team player.” That’s how Principal’s Secretary Diane Zinck described Ms. Sarah Matloff. “She just put her uniform on immediately and was on the field, and we were all playing on the team,” Zinck said.
Stacks of paper cover every inch of the table. Smaller stacks held together by paper clips, larger by binder clips. Every handout for the week on this one table. Each stack carefully labeled with a light blue post-it note. Betsy Waisel surveys the past hours’ work. Exhausted but proud, she finally sits and drinks the last sip of her iced coffee.