Fuhrmann, 17, was living in Cologne, Germany – the fourth-largest city in Germany – and she planned to spend the year as a foreign exchange student in the United States. When she found out she’d be living in Washtucna – a town of 260 people about 60 miles northeast of the Tri-Cities – she didn’t know what to think. If Fuhrmann was in for a surprise when she got to Washtucna, the town was in for one, too, when not only she, but three other exchange students as well showed up to spend their senior year of high school there. The school district has 56 students, and three of the seniors – Derrick Lasen, Zach Kiesz and Joe Stark – went all the way from kindergarten to the 12th grade together. Besides Fuhrmann, the foreign “invasion” of Washtucna included Tram Vo, 18, of Vietnam, Fernanda Cherrez, 18, of Ecuador, and Katherina Fischer, 18, of Germany. Lasen and Stark admitted to being a little resentful, at first, that they were edged out by the exchange students after spending their entire school careers in Washtucna. read more
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