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WHS students embrace new opportunities in Belize

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Washougal High School students (from left to right) Mariah Moran, Blake Scott, Josiah Aiton and Jessica Troyer look at the ruins of Xunantunic, an ancient Mayan city, during an educational tour of Belize in July. (Contributed photo courtesy Rochelle Aiton-Quested)

Washougal High School Spanish teacher Rochelle Aiton-Quested does everything she can to educate her students about different languages and cultures in her classroom, but knows there’s no substitute for real-world experience.

That’s why she’s taken pupils on five trips to foreign countries in the past 12 years. She feels a great deal of satisfaction when the teenagers truly start to understand that the world is much bigger than they had previously assumed.

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