Dorm students can experience life in Portland by taking the bus downtown with a buddy and going on group trips in a bus the students have dubbed the “Green Limousine.” They stop for a snack at a food cart or share a treat from Voodoo Doughnut. In lower right photo, a group of dorm and day students socialize before going to the prom.
“It’s an amazing opportunity,” Bonnie said. “We
“The dorm students have an American-style barbecue and watch the Superbowl. That kind of experience really informs students about what life is like for people here in the United States.” — Jordan Elliott ’97, head of Upper School
have 50 to 60 day students each year who come stay in the dorms. We put them with our dorm student ambassadors who take them to dinner, study hall in the evening, and breakfast check-in in the morning, so they have a chance to live how a dorm student lives.” Each Upper School student can stay in the dorms for up to two weeks a year at no cost. In addition to encouraging relationships between dorm and day students, the program gives the day students a taste of how they will live in college. By the time the dormies get to college, they have years of experience living on their own. Head of Upper School Jordan Elliott says that will make a huge difference for them. “Tese students are learning to be independent in
their lives,” he said. “Tat involves not only being able to manage their academic load but being able to do one’s laundry and take care of the needs that one has as an individual. Our day students report after they get to college that the academic work is not the challenge; the challenge is developing those life skills. Te
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boarding program helps students be even farther ahead in that environment so they hit the ground running.” Jordan said the experience of living in a diverse
environment not only prepares the dorm students for their college experience but also for their careers. “An international alum from Asia told me he is
so valuable in his company because he knows how to relate to people who are coming from a Western background, from the United States or from Europe. He deeply understands what that culture is and at the same time can translate it to his home culture. OES is really geared toward giving students the skills they need to develop that fluency across cultures.” Otto L.3 ’14 says he has learned lessons at OES and in the dorms that will help him continue to educate himself and contribute to the world. “I’m planning to go to college, and when I am done with that, hopefully I can go back home to Tailand and bring what I have learned and give it back to the community there.”
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