BY EMILY BLYSTONE and JULIE POWELL
Staff Writers

This week Baldwin is being visited by a second round of Austrian students. A different group visited in the fall of this school year.

The students are here to learn about American culture and student life.

“Our schools are smaller and stricter,” 16-year-old Anna Pranjkic said on Monday, after visiting Baldwin classes for the day.

Their schools also are not integrated with technology like Baldwin.

“We are not allowed to use our phones for a lesson. If you have them out, the teachers take them away,” 15-year-old Felix Fink said.

This week the Austrian students will also see the school musical, Shrek, tour downtown, and go to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. They are going to see their first baseball game as well.

“We have never seen baseball and don’t even know the rules,” 16-year-old Irina Subasic said.

After spending time in New York City before coming to Baldwin, the Austrians said the biggest American culture shock so far has been the busy American lifestyle.

“Times Square, all the people and the skyscrapers, was the craziest thing we have seen yet,”16-year-old Stephan Gotz said.