Foreign exchange student reveals personal bucket list

Fred Shipp Jr., Reporter

America, the country with 50 states, and 318.9 million people, lots of innovative things and so many diverse people. Students from different countries tend to travel to America to receive our level of education with all the different technologies.

Seventeen-year-old s enior Aylin Genc, from Karlsruhe Germany who attended Helmholtz High School, is living with Chuck and Sandy Kern, both teachers in Monroe Public Schools system. Genc is here in America to attend high school at MHS.

Genc has a Bucket List, which she would like to complete here in America.

“A Hockey game, I want to go to prom, paint the rock in the parking lot, TP someone’s house, and start a food fight!¨ Genc said of the things she wants to do while in America.

Genc said that fights aren’t common in her country, so she would actually like to see a real fight!

¨I want to see a fight, like a real fight… I have never seen a real fight,¨ said Genc, but, of course, not at MHS.

She is going back to Germany this year in June, and she has exactly 84 things on her list. She has completed a few things such as a seeing a high school football game, a Cedar Point visit, an American Christmas and Thanksgiving, ¨We don’t have Thanksgiving in Germany,” Genc said.

According to Genc, in Germany you have to be 18 to get a license, and she mostly takes the subway there.

¨ It is difficult here in America to complete my bucket list because of lack of transportation¨ said genc. Completing this bucket list will bring so much pride to Genc.

“I’d feel great; it would be something I completed mostly by my own and with help by people I like. It would be like convincing my parents for the exchange year,” said Genc.