Portuguese students get taste of America: Mariana Silva, 15, can't wait to visit MIT and Harvard. She hopes to earn a place in their pre-med programs when she graduates from her private school in Opporto. "Portugal is great, but I want to be a doctor," she said during a reception for students from the Externato Ribadouro school Thursday. "Sometimes it's too hard in Portugal" to be accepted to medical school.
On the other end of the spectrum were male students who asked Principal John Stapelfeld how they could meet the kind of girls they had seen on American TV shows: cheerleaders.
"That was the first thing they wanted to do," Stapelfeld said.
