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stouffville suntribunem thursday oct 25 2007 staff photosmike barrett james beare and partner laura makowski of sdss demonstrate squaredancing moves to visitors perakaa sethukavalan and pirassana gunapalan of markhams middle- field collegiate during exchange visit to stouffville last thursday fifty stouffville students visiting middlefield earlier in the week stoufiville culture line dancing venison rugby century homes from page 1 eric zurowsld and miranda clayton of sdss try their hand at print- making during an exchange visit to their school last thursday of some of our students went to the same school mr zoratto said they couldnt believe there were 2000 members of the reesor fami ly who gather together their com munity is so much newer for their part many of the sdss students hadnt heard of middle- field wheres middlefield it happens everywhere like that mr zoratto said people grow up with their circle of friends in their own school and then their community without knowing whats down the road until last week mr ganeshalingam captain of middlefields championship soc cer team learned to play rugby and line dance at stoufiville he and his classmates ate veni son lasagna cookies and goulash were so close to the city we dont experience this he said ifs an amazing experience just awe some its so closeknit here the environment is completely differ ent here were soccer crazy the way theyre rugby crazy here other differences clubs at middlefield are largely based on race or religion includ ing southeast asian tamil and muslim organizations stouffvilles clubs are activity based and theres more emphasis on technical education and trades at sdss our parents want all of us to be lawyers doctors and engineers he said white students are a distinct minority in the 1600member stu dent body at middlefield the stu dents represent 19 cultures com munities and countries even more amazing mr zorat to said was waspdominated stouffville had students from 53 backgrounds jennifer lee a grade 9 student at sdss had a temporary henna tattoo on her hand a souvenir from the trip to middlefield a speedmeeting session that mirrored speeddating and looks at the chinese cultures were her highlights art photo souvenirs framed and autographed pho tographs and pieces of art created during the exchange are being exchanged along with emails between students a facebook page could be in the works as well as an annual exchange people have beenp altered in a very positive way mifzoratto said when you have people of different cultures coming together you have this unexpected cultural explosion of talent we talk a lot about cultural exchanges but you really dont have to travel around the world for this just 20 km will do mark ujork house clothes that work off november 8th only stouffville location only opening special 1090 hoover park dr stouffville