And good morning. It is 708 on, uh, well, it's back to work day for everybody. I still
feel like it's Monday when I work yesterday. It just feels like Monday. And when Melissa
Caprile didn't enter guest, walked in the building and said, well, we're going to do
it till Thursday. What are you talking about? It's Monday. It's actually Thursday. Uh,
our Racine Alder County board supervisor and what other do you have about 20 other jobs?
Melissa Caprilegan is here, but she's not here for the government jobs today. She's here because
she brought a guest with her. She has two foreign exchange students living here for the school season.
And we've talked to one recently from Belgium. And this is your other foreign exchange student.
And I'm going to get the name right once I see it once. I'll get to the million times.
A seer, a rebel goat, uh, uh, ribagorda. Yeah. Close. Yeah. Okay. Good.
We'll close that microphone here. Everything you have to say. Okay. And you're from Espanya.
Yeah. I'm Spain. And like the way I did that thing, I didn't say Spain. That's good.
Like those other Americans do the ugly Americans. I said to Espanya, where are you from in, uh,
in Spain? So, um, for a much more sound on this alphabet, right? Not really far away.
Like an hour. Okay. Give us the name. I see it. It's going on like our narrow. Pretty like
like all Russia town, you know, like all the old traditions and all the stuff that you think about
when you think of Spain. That's how my town is. And like all the bull runs and all this stuff.
That's the kind of things we're doing. That's where it is. Yeah. Yeah. And here's a little fun fact
for those who like to eat in racing and we love old Madrid. Yeah. He came here. Asi came here
on his birthday. And we went to old Madrid. And I think, oh, you know, how perfect is that?
And he's looking over at the wall and he saw the art on the wall. And he goes, I think that's
from my town. Oh, wow. Sure enough, we got up close. And it was really reminiscent whether it was
or not. But, uh, you have paella, whatever, paella. I always remember that from the side field.
I've ever said, were George Costanza's mom, but I'm not going to think with all those paella.
We did have that. And it's fun. I think we've never been there twice since you've been here. Yeah.
Yeah. Twice. So he's helped us out too. Yeah. And he got to go back and
meet the owner too. We went back in the kitchen. I think, um, one of one of the Fridays,
first Fridays or something like that before I pick your brain. I'm a real Spain. You know,
where I'm where is? Yeah. Okay. That's the place I want to go to. Do you know what that's famous for?
Please tell us. You know, do you need it? He might know that you don't know. He probably knows.
I'm a real Spain is where they made the good, the bad and the ugly, a fistful of dollars for a
few dollars more. And just about every Italian Western, they called them Italian Western,
but they were all made in Almeria, Spain. Is that so? Did you know that? I'll see.
The thing is, um, I've been to Almeria once with the family. And when you got to Almeria,
you realize that's kind of like, like if my younger wasn't Spain kind of, you know, similar to Miami.
Okay. Almeria, Spain. I mean, they filmed all those Italian Westerns there with
Clint Eastwood in Almeria. That's it. That's it. That's my entire knowledge. It's fun facts to have.
Okay. What made you decide to do the, is this your senior year in high school? Yeah. Okay.
What made you do your senior year in America? So when I was back in Spain in my junior year, right?
I was pretty much thinking about it because my parents already offered me to go to the United States
when I was 14, you know, but I pretty much felt like I was still young, you know. I wasn't going to
go to or to enjoy it as much. So I thought, let's go to bed. I passed a few years and when I was
16, I thought, let's go. Yeah, pretty much came because I always like like the culture. I know
this other thus here. I wanted to see like, you know, like, how different it is actually from the
movies. You know, like when you shoot the movies, like, they're placed with the donuts and,
you know, all these chasings. I want to see the police with the donuts. So did you love that?
America. I like the big burger. Donuts and donuts, car chases and burgers. That's us.
That's pretty much the movie. So I wanted to see like, is this real like that? I wanted to
like, how I'd agree with this. So yeah, I just came. Was it everything you imagined?
It's kind of something, something's not. For example, I feel like the streets, I even really
think about it, but they're like really different. Our width of our streets struck.
ACA has been something really odd. We're very wide. So if you think about, you know, our roads,
and maybe the roads in Europe, yeah, there's a lot of difference. And yet cars are still crossing
over the yellow lines. We don't have enough room. Yeah, even though it's that big, there's
still not driving correctly. But you talk about big, the size of things. So not only our roads,
our vehicles, and yeah. So when I was, when people come from different countries,
they always speak English, yet people in this country can hardly speak another language.
I mean, I told you before we got on the air here, I took six years to Spanish,
two in college, four in high school, and I could barely speak a couple of words.
I was impressed by your two words. They're very random.
Bondigas, which is meatballs. I don't know how I remember that. And Tango said, which means
I'm thirsty. Tango meaning me, TNA would be you. Yeah. Or, you know, that's the way you conjugate
the verbs. Anyway, you like that word conjugate the verbs. I like that. It makes you sound like a
college graduate. So how did you learn English? My mom, my mom meets back in Spain,
college, Dean. So she's pretty back position. So when I was four, I remember because she wanted
me to really hard to learn languages, because it's going to be really important. So when I was four,
and I was like in my living room, in Spain, it's pretty just like kids watching TV,
when my parents were like working or something. So I was four. I'm going to me, and she was like,
what's wrong with you when to learn? I was like probably English. And she came to me,
she gave me 10 papers, two minutes later, and she was 10 English exams. And she was like,
what are we going to do this? Every single weekend, two, three or five.
And that's how I started learning English. But you know what, us here is really good at Don,
and you think we take it for granted. We speak in a lot of slang. And I was quite impressed,
and I had asked where he had picked that up, and a lot through video gaming, because I was
quite impressed by his English, and that he could pick up sarcasm as well. My, what's it to you?
What's it to you? And he would get it. His humor, he has, it's a lot of English humor as well,
that you know, sometimes we say things like, oh, did he get it? He gets it. And he can give you
it right back too. And we do speak a lot of slang. Even when I'm watching these true crime shows on
TV, the police are talking and slang all the time. And if they ever get a suspect who doesn't
speak English properly, they're going to go right over their head for sure. And they have to get,
now they sell translators on the phone, where you can speak into the phone, and they show it to
the, the purple. Yeah. I got that in what a purpose. Yeah. Wow, that's pretty good. You know what
a person? I don't. Yeah, don't, no, that's the, the quick. Oh, well, when they take you from your
police car to the jail cell, it's called a perp walk. And they don't. I'm too innocent. Yeah,
right. You know, anyway, we're going to talk about which high school you go to here.
Harvorside. So much imagery. Okay, that's in Kenosha. That is. Okay. Harvorside Academy. Hold on,
because we, I'm going to get your feeling on the high school life here as opposed to high school
life where you come from in your hometown. I'm sure it's different. A lot. Okay, we're going to
find out what the difference is coming up at just a moment. Hey, at 716, local news time,
Los Hitz. We got a partly Sunday day on tap today with the idea of 30 becoming clear tonight.
Lo is 16. I know we'd hit winter occasionally. I knew that 50 degrees two weeks ago was an
anomaly. You know what anomaly is? Yeah. Okay. That's good. So if you know, Melissa. Yes. Okay.
Sunday to borrow with a high day of 24 Saturday, Sunday with a high year 22 and cloudy on Sunday with
a high year 26 cloudy 24 degrees right now right here at Radio Park. And a good morning at 719
at WRJ and local news time, Los Hitz, we're talking with Melissa Comprilian, our alter in the
don't tell me fifth district. And you are the county board supervisor in the
keep going. There you go. Fourth district. You've started too long. Number too many numbers.
I got to worry about this. I'm not good at this. But you, you have two foreign exchange
students living here. I can ask them, what make you do that? I mean, I'm a very selfish person.
I don't want people walking around my house. Well, it's fine. I don't want my wife walking around
either. Go ahead. What do you say? No, no. I mean, for multiple of reasons. But one of the main ones is
is I have space in my house. So why not allow an opportunity for individuals to come and experience
the community? I love community and I love to travel the world as well. I try to be as cultured
as I can, but functioning in my everyday world. It's difficult. So if you open your home to those
that live somewhere else in the globe, it allows myself to be more cultured and also I have an
11 year old at home. So it gives him an opportunity to as well. And I am a believer that when we have
shared spaces, we start connecting more. So I feel like I'm forever connected with you us here.
And I know my son will be as well. Now, how did you get the, did you, did they just say he or
she was coming to live with you or did you get to pick from a big picture like a like a mug shot
of somebody? Yeah. So there's, I got us here into Meetree where I didn't pick either of them.
However, those who sign up to do foreign exchange programs and if you want to be a host family,
you do pick. It's a really weird thing. It's, it's almost like you're looking for an animal
at a strange shelter or something. You're like, oh, look at the qualities. Look at the traits.
My son has always looked so sad. Yeah, I'll take him. However, to Meetree, he first, he was my first,
and Kenosha unified school district and through harbor side. Yeah, I took an inch. How do you get him
in the high school? Because they're not, they're not registered here. Yeah, the high schools have so
many slots available for foreign exchange students. And then a cell open door that I go through
had Demetree signed up. And they said that he was in need of a host family. His original one,
something happened. And it was an emergency. And I said, okay, I'm willing. And then when I was
talking with Nassau open door, they said, we have five other students who don't have homes.
Yes. And I mean, it's like when you pick out a puppy, all the others have to stay there. I mean,
I hate to put it like, but it's kind of sad that everybody wants to come, but not everybody's got
a host family. I would have taken all five. I would have took all five if I could, but I knew I
had another room. So when I was getting interviewed for Demetree, I said, well, you have other
students that need it. I can clear out another room. And so, Don, I had, I have four children,
but three of them are out of the house. So that means I had an extra room. We kind of just shifted
in everything. I had my junk room, if you will, or my closet. Is that when you're living the
junk room? No. His room was cleaned out. And Demetree's room was cleaned out. It's my 11-year-old
who has to compromise and be in my wardrobe. Does she make it, does she make you more of the lawn
and everything? I don't think that's right. Demetree has. As he is not, but hey, spring will be
coming and we'll get us here out there. Is there snow in your hometown? Is there snow?
We did almost never snow. Almost never snow. The only time he has snow, it was like 10 feet tall.
10 feet tall. The first time it snowed. 10 feet of snow? Yeah, it was called Filomena. It was like
environmental phenomenal. You know, it wasn't like, I think he has never snowed in Spain in my town.
And he actually snowed with Filomena. And it was so big that he had to stop like for a week
like school. I was going to brag about our 24-inch snowstorm and that's nothing. That's like a
dusting. And then for a one-time snowfall for it. Whoa, 10 feet. That's like the end of the world.
Talking how that shift in our climate and what can happen with like that enormous snowfall,
while he was here, there was major flooding going on in Spain. And so the pictures of just the
cars, just it looks like, you know, the mudslides that would happen in California, they can just take
everything in the floods in Spain. So, you know, a lot going on in his hometown while he was here.
Let's talk about school for a minute. As seer, the River Gorda, is that right?
What's different about the high schools here as opposed to the high schools in your hometown?
I feel like the biggest thing is when we started here the first week, we have like a normal week,
choosing the classes, which are you on them, you know, kind of organizing. When I got in Spain,
in my last school, do they have a time to organize? So, you got in there the first day, it was
pretty much for more like, you know, meeting people, meeting the teachers, the stuff.
But the second day you get there, they go like, okay, next week we have three exams.
I'm not joking. Like, we'll get around there, like, then we have three exams. We're going to
finish this, this, this, this week. And if you don't come these days, be sure to make this homework.
Like, they don't ask you, did you just do it? That's the thing.
Well, that's something. The first day is, oh, it's a nice meeting, Greed Out. Are you
meet, cute? Everything's second day. All right. We got three exams. Where's that homework
assigned? Well, they start right in on you. Well, that's not here. He said it's, they're so
rigorous. It's just rigorous studies. And here it's Lacks. And, you know, he's even changed
his wardrobe from what, you know, different Lacks to environment. What kind of grades did you get
there? So in Spain, it was harder to get grids. I don't go around like a seven eight because
the thing is in Spain, we don't have from C to A. We have from C roll to 10.
Oh, okay. So it's easier here because if you get a D on your report guard, it's so easier to
turn that into a B. And nobody will know. See what I learned in school. It's electronic now.
They got smart now. Yeah. They have too many people of it. Well, we, I got electronic. Well,
no, I know. I don't think we didn't get electronic. It was a piece of, it was a, it was a,
yeah, it was a car. You had to return it every time. And the teacher was like, gee, I don't
remember that. Be on there. Okay. Anyway, so hold on. We got to do some work here. A
C. River Gorda is here and his sponsor, Melissa Caprillian is here. We're talking about the
difference between your life here and I can't believe you speak English so well. I mean,
better than a lot of people who work here. That's excellent. What? No, I got. Oh my gosh,
we can say our breath is too cold. Let's go back inside. He's like, let me go outside to see
if I can see my breath in the air. My coat here, it weighs about 40 pounds. It's a,
it's the first time I ever got a coat where I can really feel the warmth now. You went yesterday
to the, uh, it was nuts jumping into Lake Michigan, right? Yeah. Splash and dash. Yes.
I couldn't remember. I called it the polar plunge splash and dash. That's what it's going on.
Splash and dash. We got there just like a minute late. We were coming up and, uh,
started at 12 on the down. It was over at 12.02. That was it. I know. But we, nope,
Dimitri still went in and jumped in. Got his video and never he went in. He went in. Did
you jump in the lake? Oh, he stayed in bed. So, yeah, he's saying bad. He's like, he's got
rings. Yeah. My wife used to do that. She used to run it. Oh, and it first met her.
I was the coat man. I, you know, the, the paddle bearer. And she used to run into the lake
and run back. I wrapped her up quick. And we got to, I said, what are you thinking?
I said, how do you get dull pneumonia? But I heard that's really good for you. I'm not,
I'm not going to go that well. There's other things that are good for you. It wasn't that
cold yesterday. But I've been at those things where it's 10 degrees and they had an iceberg.
Yes. They had to use dynamite to blow the iceberg up so people can get in and out.
Because otherwise, they can't get out. Yeah. And then you got those, those people staying in
the water for like a half hour because they're going to, you know, make sure all the people
that came in are also leaving. I made sure we were right next to the fire department. There's
a crew there just in case, right? But after a while, they're watching some people staying in the
water. And they said, all right, time to get out. So they must have been kind of monitoring the
time. It's like, no, not in our watch. You can't be out there though. Do you know when they do
that, the triathlon, I don't know, doing any more than we're seeing, but they used to do triathlons
here. And, you know, it was bicycling. It was running and it was swimming. You know how they made
sure all the people were out of the water? How they knew? No. If there were no bicycles left,
everybody got out. If there was a bicycle left, they had to go search in the water form.
Interesting. It was the bicycle count. That's how they made sure.
Oh, well, that makes sense. That makes sense. You know, you know, the difference here is that
in Spain, when I was when I just to like get out because in Spain, the way you used a lot of
public transportation. So I just go to the school by my own. I will just take the bus at like seven
a.m. and go to the school. The interesting thing is that I usually don't get like codes. I will
just get like sorts and a short sleeve. And in the morning, yeah, I was called like, I'm
talking about December, like 20 December. It will be cold. But at the moment, he's like 10, 11,
a.m. It goes so warm that you don't feel like it's winter. Like you can visit with the shorts
on the short sleeve completely calm, taking class. Well, we had that 50 degree temperature two weeks
ago. And I said, oh, this is probably love this winter. And then be right up to 16 degrees.
But when you have foreign exchange students staying with you, saying I want to see that really
big snowfall, I want to take them slutty. And I want them to experience Wisconsin, the way
that we remember. You know what you do? And you go up to her lady and let them go up there,
bring up to the top of the state. We might just have to do that because I want them to experience
that. It did snow the once and I said, I see, did you see it? And he's like, I got 20 pictures
already. So he already had the big snow there of 100 inches or whatever it was. I remember,
it was so funny because I know the story. So I was, I lived like really close to my town hall,
like a minute away walking. So it was so funny because I was going to hang out with my friends
on the town hall because it was like snow and I were like, oh, you know, let's do a snowful fight.
That was never been able to. And it started snowing more and more. And the only thing that
broke was like shorts and shorts. I didn't even bring gloves. Didn't even think you had to bundle
up when you wear snow or when you see snow. That's the thing. I looked like a minute away walking
when I realized that it was going to be like a big snow. It took me like to, I don't even joke
it like 10 minutes walking to my house. It usually takes me one. And it was so bad. Like,
do you know on that level of cold when you get a hot shower and you feel like you're cold?
That was how I was. Like it was so cold that day. That would be so unhealthy. But us around
here, we feel that. You're traveling doing the temperature now. You you were possessious in
Europe. And that's today. I used to the phone. You can go back and forth,
bring Fahrenheit and Celsius. You don't have a problem. I used to get the phone. I have been the
phone. The phone. The phone tells us we don't get a thing too hard. Yeah. What about also
in meters and feet and inches and miles and because kilometers and we've actually seen that
in school. So if I remember correctly, I think it was like 3.2, then 1.4, something like that
for like bossy. You're looking at me. I see I would be using my phone. I don't get it like
even weight. You know, they have to watch their weight in wrestling. Yeah. So converting,
converting their weight. So when my early 20s, I was in Israel. And I don't know how people
pick up the language because I knew a little things speak so fast. And I what would you say?
And I thought I'm going to be a breeze. I can speak this. I can speak it if you speak like this.
I might be able to understand. But when you're speaking a regular speak and I'm a fast talker,
I don't know what they're saying. Yeah. Yeah. But Asi does really good, doesn't he?
That's great. Yeah. He's, you know, there's a lot that I wish that my son, my 11 year old,
would be able to pick up some of the language, but we're totally. Now, one of the guys is meatballs.
Do you have a bun de gas? Am I saying that right? A bun de gas, right? Yeah, meatballs.
But fascinating down, which I told you, that was what they were going to be making tonight for
dinner. It's a bun de gas. You know, so now I'm going to ask you because I asked to meet you
the same question. The girls in school, that accent, they must love that accent. Do they,
do they flock to you with that accent? Because he has a French accent. You have more of a Spanish
accent. Yeah. Do they flock to you and they say, oh, so I don't really know about the accent
because if I'm honest, when I'm in school, I'm like on my own. I like focusing on my studies,
on my exams, on my homework. I don't really like talk to people. I don't talk into some people,
but I'm not like a really social person in school. So when I was introducing myself for
this sort of this year, no one like girl about the accent until I said like, oh, I'm from Spain.
And then we're like, I don't know of Spain. He does get that. I love Taco Bell. Oh, that's
Mexico. There was a lot of people saying like, we spur off South America. You're from like,
I'm from Europe, you know, which part of what? South America. Yeah. That shows you the mentality
here. Isn't that the truth? But there's such a mistake, even if you look at us here,
you can tell there's a mistake about them. And so I think that's pretty much the draw. I mean,
he has this good balance between being introverted and extroverted. But I think the women,
the young ladies are drawn to his mystique. And then when he talks and then you get the whole
accent and the viewers don't get to see us here, but it's very European looking. I love
looking at his fashion, the things that he buys when he's here. It is quite interesting. I'm like,
what? My, my 11 year olds quite fascinated to the style and pants aren't tapered and fitted.
They're very slurry and fun. And that kind of matches your personality. A serious flurry and fun.
Well, it's been a pleasure having you here. What a nice guy. I mean, yeah, what a nice guy.
And you didn't know this, but actually you were letting him run something here a few minutes
ago. And it worked perfect. Oh, nobody knew about it. Yeah, I'm going to hit some of the
buttons here because I wouldn't mind having a producer here doing this. And I'll sit in your
position. I was like, if you don't watch out, but it sounds like you're welcome to it. You might
just be come on over and do that. I see you're in America. It's a pleasure having you here.
It was a pleasure. And you're going back in June. You want to come back though eventually?
Why not? You know, okay. Yeah, they come back here. You can, what are your visas? How does that work?
Yeah, that's exactly right. He says, keep your passport current. And he always will have a
place to come. By the way, how are your grades? I didn't ask you that.
It's different. Like, I don't think my grocery bag, like, for example, if we can't test,
I think, like, by law of like 3.5 out of four. He's doing good. Yeah, he's doing
the hardest thing for me is the homework. Because in homework in Spain, it was like,
if classes were like 15 minutes, it will be 40 minutes of pages like reading and then 10 minutes
of, okay, do this homework. You're finishing. Did you do it with home? Back years like, okay,
we're going to do this for four days. I'm not just that. I never done that.
I was in the National Honor Society. Proof, you don't need to do homework because I never did it.
My grades were so, so, and I still got into the National Honor Society. You enjoy the rest of
you school year here. Thank you. And it's a pleasure having here. Yeah, pleasure having you.
Thank you very much, this year. And thank you, Melissa, for bringing us here in today. Thank you,
John. Have any more? That's a two. You have any more at home? No more foreign exchange students,
but always lots of excitement.