Pattonville welcomes four foreign exchange students

  Is your hometown similar to St. Louis? Not really. Bishkek is a much smaller city than St. Louis and younger than St. Louis. It became our capital in 1991. Is Pattonville similar to school in your home country? The big difference is that there’s not that much technology. We don’t have laptops. We have computer classes, but there are only 20 or 25 laptops for one class and we didn’t use...

  Is your hometown similar to St. Louis? No, it’s way smaller and the architecture is completely different and it’s way older than St. Louis. Is Pattonville similar to school in your home country? School days are shorter here. We usually start at 8 and get out at  4 or 5 o’clock. We have a 1 hour lunch break, sometimes 2. We don’t have high school sports. We have way more breaks. Y...

  Is your hometown similar to St. Louis? Yes and no. Technically, I don’t live in the city. I live in a suburb like here, but it's like we live downtown, that’s where we do everything. So I guess that’s the differences here, you don’t necessarily have to go downtown. And it’s a lot bigger here.   Is Pattonville similar to school in your home country? My school had 900 ...

Is your hometown similar to St. Louis? It is actually by the Danube [River] so that’s kind of similar to having the Mississippi River by St. Louis and it's roughly the same size. The structure of the city is different. There’s a downtown area but they don’t have suburban areas, that’s an American thing, so not that very much different. I’m not used to living in a suburban area. I’m...