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If you had to do some home schooling during lockdown, what was your best subject? “Learning to count with a 3-year old.” Christine Funke, Heidelberg IWC, Club President “Math, of course!” Kathy DeBest, FAUSA, FAWCO Foundation Treasurer “Not math, not German, not English…so probably lunch or recess.” Angie Aebersold, AWC Bern, FAWCO Events Co-Chair “We are working on crawling, standing and French. So far, the results are not good, but since her swimming lessons have been canceled, her version of floor swimming is going well.” Amanda Drollinger, AWC Central Scotland, FAWCO Secretary “I have been running online Boy Scout meetings with 11-year olds who know nothing about first aid…like herding cats.” Liz Hemminger, AW Surrey, FAUSA “Yoga/Sanskrit/French.” Renuka Matthews, FAWCO Member “Thank God I don’t have to do that, but I have enjoyed reading to my grandchildren with an app (Caribu) so we can read together and be on the same page.” Monica Jubayli, AWC Lebanon, former FAWCO President “Loving Chris Voss, a former hostage negotiator, teaching “The Art of Negotiations” on Master Class.” Janet Darrow, FAUSA, AWA Vienna, former FAUSA President “Happy Hour. What was the question?” Mary Stange, AWC Bogotá, FAWCO Rep, FAWCO Social Media Manager The FAWCO COVID-19 Home School 2020 Yearbook Photos Lenny and Johann Funke Max Stange Amelia Stange 18
Team Event Planning Swiss Style ANGIE AEBERSOLD Member: American Women’s Club of Bern From: Albany, Oregon Lives: Oberbalm, near Bern, Switzerland PATRICIA AEBY Member: American Women’s Club of Bern From: Austin, Texas Lives: Oberdorf, near Bern, Switzerland ANGIE: I grew up in Albany Oregon. My parents divorced when I was about 10 and we moved from a small town to a slightly larger town. I spent all of my junior high and high school life in Albany where the Angie and Patricia at the 2015 FAWCO Conference in Rome population was about 32,000 when I was growing up. I was a shy child, so once I made friends, they have mostly stayed my friends until today even though I have lived the last 30 years in Switzerland. My biggest impact from childhood that sticks with me until today is not a nice story. One night when I was about 11, I was home alone and someone broke into the house and I was almost raped. The bright side to this, a few weeks before in our PE class we had a self-defense course. I was able to think and somehow get myself out of the situation. The trauma, yes there is trauma, because it was so very extremely close, remains. It took years before I could stay by myself at home at night, many years before I could go to sleep at night without a radio going and if I am home alone all of the doors have to be locked. I survived; I lived a normal life at home until I was 20, with a few quirks. I met my husband, Tom, when he came to visit his host family one summer. We had a summer affair and when he left to go home, I had thought, “Well I will never see him again”. But we kept in contact, writing back and forth for a year to a year and a half. We decided I should visit him in Switzerland. So, off I went to visit this guy I hardly knew, totally crazy! I planned to stay for 3 months and then go home. Well, we lasted 2½ months and then after a blow-up, I ended up going home early thinking, “I will never see him again”. I was home for a week and he called apologizing and we made plans for him and his mother to come visit for a couple of weeks in summer. Then Tom came to study at Oregon State University in Corvallis for six months. After half a year he went back to Switzerland with the plan that I would be coming for the summer to Switzerland. I came for my 3-month summer vacation and ended up staying for 9 months. I went home was very sad and unhappy, and made plans to go back to Switzerland. Within 3 months I had worked long enough and made enough money to go back to Switzerland. I arrived in summer and we were married in December 1990. This year we will be celebrating our 30 th wedding anniversary. PATRICIA: I was born in Queens, New York to Swiss immigrants. After completing hotel school in Switzerland, my parents immigrated to the United States in the 60s so that my father could start his career in the US hotel industry. As my father’s career took off, we ended up in Vermont, Massachusetts, Toronto, Canada and Texas. Moving around all the time was quite difficult for my sister and me during our formative years. Just when we thought we would stay in one place for a while, we had to say goodbye to all our friends and our school and pack up to leave on our next adventure. 19
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