Embracing Change: Bigfork senior seeks adventure overseas
Bigfork High School senior North Nollan poses for a photo outside the high school Thursday, May 23. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
North Nollan (third from right) poses with his host family Åsa, Agaton (holding the family dog Opus) Theodor and Sören Ohlsson. (Courtesy photo)
North Nollan and Theodor Ohlsson on the Swedish island of Öland for a Swedish tradition called “midsummer.” (Courtesy photo)
The Nollan family of Bigfork welcomes their exchange student Theodor Ohlsson to the U.S. Pictured left to right; Hadley Nollan, Ryan Nollan, Theodor Ohlsson, North Nollan, and Michelle Nollan. (Courtesy photo)
Bigfork High School senior North Nollan and his host brother turned exchange student Theodore Ohlsson. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle)
“I really like a change in things. Let’s go see what this different place looks like and how they act,” Bigfork High School senior North Nollan said.
The son of Ryan and Michelle Nollan, North has attended school in Bigfork since first grade. The family made trips to Washington to visit his grandparents and New York during North’s childhood. Everywhere he went was a new adventure, and it fostered a love of travel in him. Second semester of his junior year, North decided to take on study abroad, the first Bigfork student in recent memory to do so.
Norway was his original target, as his family has Nordic ancestry. North had been teaching himself German and taken French classes at Bigfork, building a love for language. He figured Norwegian is a Germanic language, and would be easier than some to learn as an English speaker, so he began to practice. But last second, plans changed.
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