Article: BRAZILIANS SPENDING A MONTH AS VALLEY GIRLS.(News)

Byline: Jennifer Radcliffe Staff Writer

VAN NUYS - Very few of the boys at Van Nuys High School look like movie stars.

That's been one of the biggest disappointments for the six teenage girls from Campinas, Brazil, who are spending the month at the San Fernando Valley campus in hopes of learning more about the U.S. public education system.

``I thought there would be more beautiful boys,'' 15-year-old Nathalia Fernandes said Wednesday

Added Luiza Testa, 16: ``I thought I was going to meet, like, a young Brad Pitt.''

The Los Angeles Unified School District usually enrolls only a dozen or so foreign students a year because most ...

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