Youth Exchange Update

Posted by Anne E. Miller

on Aug 23, 2011

Another school year is starting, and our youth exchange program continues to move along with new faces and new experiences for so many wonderful students. By now all 4 of our local students should be with their first host families in Brazil, France, Belgium and Ecuador. We wish them well and look forward to hearing from them in a year.

Be sure to attend the upcoming meeting when we will hear about Ariel Moyte's year in Brazil.

Finally, one of our current inbound students is now living with the family of our very own, Sabrina Lane. It would be great if you'd give her a call and ask her to join you in an activity or a simple visit. You can reach her through Sabrina. To that end, as we welcome our recently-arrived student from Mexico, we are implementing a new program. To more ?forcefully encourage involvement of club members with these fabulous young people so as to further enrich their year, you will notice little Mexico flag stickers on your badge. By the years' end we would like to see that all members no longer have a flag on their badge. In order to remove the flag you must have had some contact with the student. We encourage members to invite them to your home for dinner with your family, or take them to a ball game or symphony, or if an outing just isn't possible, simply sitting at the table with the student at a meeting and introducing yourself and conversing with the student would suffice.