Wednesday, May 31, 2006

McCook Daily Gazette: Story: Cultural exchange -- Turkish student adjusts to small-town American life

"Cultural exchange -- Turkish student adjusts to small-town American life
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Lorri Sughroue

Coming from a country a little larger than Texas but with almost 70 million people, Rotary exchange student Ozgun Ozguven of Turkey had a few adjustments to make while staying in McCook this year.

"It feels so ... empty," she tried to explain. "I am used to so much more people."

A couple of more million people, in fact. Growing up in Izmir, a coastal city of 2 million by the Aegean Sea, McCook was quite a change for the 17-year old. "

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