The College welcomes four exchange students: Alessandro Verona from Italy, Hubert Jervaise and Clemont Sifferlin from France and Harry Rogers, Cole Fiorita and Andrew Kelly from the USA. The boys will be attending classes at the College until the end of Term 2 with some staying on for longer.

We caught up with a couple of the boys after their arrival and asked how they were settling into the Black and White community.

Why did you choose to come to Australia?

Harry Rogers (USA): My mother is from Australia and she has told me about all the wonderful things Australia has to offer. 

What have you enjoyed the most so far?

Alessandro Verona (Italy): The possibility of knowing a lot of people and changing class every hour with different classmates.

Andrew Kelly (USA): The wide selection of choices made to students for academic and non-academic classes.

How is Newington different to your school?

Hubert Jervaise (France): Newington is different because in France we don’t have uniform, there are girls in our school, the days are a bit longer and we don’t have sport activities after school.

Alessandro Verona (Italy): The school is very big compared to mine and here the days are longer than Italy but here, every two hours you have a break so it’s more relaxing. Here, you can also play sport where in Italy, you can only play sport if you play for a club.

What do you like about Newington?

Clemont Sifferlin (France): I like the equipment and the shorter days, even though the class periods are longer than what they are in France.

Hubert Jervaise (France): I love the library because there are many more books than at my school—and the uniform.