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International student designs new Fort St. James soccer jerseys

German student looking to extend his stay in FSJ
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An international student from Germany studying at Fort St. James Secondary School designed the soccer team’s new jerseys. (Submitted photo)

An international student from Germany studying at Fort St. James Secondary School designed the high school soccer team’s new jerseys.

Grade 11 student Adrian Bast is a seasoned soccer player and has played the sport for 11 years. He is a coach and captain of a soccer team in Germany and has designed jerseys for his team in the past. After the first game in Fort St. James, Bast decided he wanted to make jerseys for the team so he went to the principal and made a pitch.

“After a conversation, where I showed him what the jerseys for my Germany team looked like, he agreed and asked me to tell the PE teacher, and organizer of the sports teams about the jerseys,” said Bast.

Bast designed five and the team voted on the best one. The new jerseys will be available to the players by mid-November.

“I really enjoy playing soccer here on the school team,” he said. He is working on extending his current five-month stay because he likes it here and wants to experience spring in Canada.

Bast came to Fort St. James through the Rocky Mountain International Student Program (RMISP), which places students from around the globe in B.C. communities.

Bast said he likes his stay in Fort St. James because of how residents treat each other and the relationship shared between teachers and students in a small community. He said he likes that through RMISP he gets one outing together with other international students at the end of each month, and is looking forward to the second outing coming up soon.

RMISP brings students from around the world to public schools in Revelstoke, Golden, Invermere, Kimberley, Cranbrook, Fernie, Sparwood, Burns Lake and Vanderhoof.