Bernard Chapman:  

I was an AFS exchange student at Clark High from Sydney, Australia. I lived with the Bres family. My host brother, Dana, also went to Clark. School in Australia, especially in the final year of school is much more academically focused than the US, so I found the American experience exhilarating and fascinating. I most enjoyed Mrs Snyder's Drama classes, and appearing in the many plays that she directed. In one, The Long Christmas Dinner, she insisted I had an American accent, which I found very difficult! I also loved Mr Kucan's College Rhetoric class and Judi Hale's Journalism class. On my return to Australia I was lucky enought to gain university (college) entrance on my American graduation. I went to a Sydney university called Macquarie, gaining a B.A. Dip. Ed, with an English/Education double major. I went on to do another...Expand for more