Monticello Rotary & Interact Club Hosts International Students Annual Exchange Weekend
April 15, 2011 by The Catskill Chronicle
MONTICELLO, NY (April 15, 2011) – The Monticello Rotary Club recently held a three-day weekend Rotary Interact International Student Exchange Program.
This annual event featured a special evening at The Museum at Bethel Woods followed by dinner at Benji and Jakes in Kauneonga Lake, NY.
On Saturday afternoon, students enjoyed soccer and other sports at the Villa Roma Resort and an evening party at the home of one of the Monticello Rotarians, Les (and Amy) Kristt. The weekend culminated with a Sunday brunch at River Edge Restaurant (photo left) where the Rotary International students each gave a short presentation to Rotarians and Interact students.
Currently, Monticello Interact Club has 25 students with two advisors, Jacob Lerner (a Rotarian) and Lori Kilgore (Art Teacher at Monticello High). Interact Club President Taylor Reardon, who is a Senior this year summed up her thoughts about the weekend. “Everyone may say we live in a small word but until they experience the Rotary Foreign Exchange Student Weekend, they won’t realize that our world is full of different cultures and lives that are not so small.”
She continued, “In 3 days we became so close and formed a sisterhood… the ‘sassy’ sisters, as we called ourselves, will always have each other no matter how far away.”
Helen Diehl, the Youth Exchange Chair for Monticello Rotary added, “For all the years I have been chairing this weekend, I have never seen the Interact and youth exchange students open up to each other and bond as they did this year. This is what Rotary teaches us; that when we get to truly know people of different cultures we find that we are really very much alike, experience the same challenges, and have very similar feelings. It is this understanding that leads to a smaller and hopefully a more peaceful world.”
This year’s Rotary International students who were involved in this weekend represented numerous countries including France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Thailand and Switzerland.
For more information about Rotary International log on to: http://www.rotary.org.
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Monticello Rotary & Interact Club Hosts International Students Annual Exchange Weekend
April 15, 2011 by The Catskill Chronicle
MONTICELLO, NY (April 15, 2011) – The Monticello Rotary Club recently held a three-day weekend Rotary Interact International Student Exchange Program.
On Saturday afternoon, students enjoyed soccer and other sports at the Villa Roma Resort and an evening party at the home of one of the Monticello Rotarians, Les (and Amy) Kristt. The weekend culminated with a Sunday brunch at River Edge Restaurant (photo left) where the Rotary International students each gave a short presentation to Rotarians and Interact students.
Currently, Monticello Interact Club has 25 students with two advisors, Jacob Lerner (a Rotarian) and Lori Kilgore (Art Teacher at Monticello High). Interact Club President Taylor Reardon, who is a Senior this year summed up her thoughts about the weekend. “Everyone may say we live in a small word but until they experience the Rotary Foreign Exchange Student Weekend, they won’t realize that our world is full of different cultures and lives that are not so small.”
She continued, “In 3 days we became so close and formed a sisterhood… the ‘sassy’ sisters, as we called ourselves, will always have each other no matter how far away.”
Helen Diehl, the Youth Exchange Chair for Monticello Rotary added, “For all the years I have been chairing this weekend, I have never seen the Interact and youth exchange students open up to each other and bond as they did this year. This is what Rotary teaches us; that when we get to truly know people of different cultures we find that we are really very much alike, experience the same challenges, and have very similar feelings. It is this understanding that leads to a smaller and hopefully a more peaceful world.”
This year’s Rotary International students who were involved in this weekend represented numerous countries including France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Thailand and Switzerland.
For more information about Rotary International log on to: http://www.rotary.org.
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