Upon his arrival to Lewiston, David Sierra-Gomez saw snow for the first time in his life.
Sierra-Gomez, the only foreign exchange student who has joined LHS this semester, is from Pereira, Columbia. He arrived Friday Jan. 27, and will remain in Lewiston until December.  
   Sierra- Gomez attends school here as a junior, and feels excited to experience the multitude of sports that LHS has to offer.
  “I love sports”, he said. “It is my favorite thing to do.”  
  In Columbia he swam for five years, and earned the title of national swimming champion.  He also played volleyball on the national and regional team, and served as the captain of his club team. Boxing was something he was very passionate about and he fought for the regional team until he broke his tailbone and was forced to quit the sport.
  Everyone has something unique about them, and for Sierra-Gomez it is his outgoing and social personality.
   “I see myself as a leader,” he said.  
   He spent a month training in Columbia to earn a leadership position with his high school, which he said is very important to him.
  Sierra-Gomez misses many things about Columbia, including the cuisine. In the United States, the meal schedule is breakfast, lunch and dinner, with dinner as the most important meal of the day. In Columbia, however, lunch stands as the most important meal of the day, and also the largest, he said. Students in Columbia have two lunches a day, and bring big bowls of food to eat at school.  Students play music, and use lunch time to dance and spend time with their friends.  
   The weather in Pereira is another detail that he misses.  In Pereira, the weather stays warm and sunny, with beautiful sights and bright flowers, he said.   
   Since arriving he has experienced a number of new things, and looks forward to the many things he has yet to do, he said. His favorite American experience so far has been ice skating.
   “I fell a lot, but it was really fun, and I liked it a lot,” he said regarding the new activity.
   Sierra-Gomez has only just begun his adventure at LHS, and he said looks forward to what the rest of the year will bring.