WHAT NEWS AROUND EXCHANGE STUDENTS
ALL OVER THE WORLD ?
( August 1998 - October 1998 )
update every 3 months
* Oregon D. 5110 *
Exchange students are now starting to leave Oregon to do their duty as an ambassador of their country. An on August 15, exchange students that got District 5110 for their duty start arriving. There will be around 40 exchange students coming and there are 39 exchange students left Oregon. This year we are exchanging the first time with CekoPublic. The countries we are exchanging are Finland, Germany, Slovakia, Argentina, Poland, Thailand, Denmark, Sweden, CekoPublic, South Africa, Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, France, Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium, Ecuador, and Australia. But this year we are not exchanging with Indonesia and Russia.On August 26, the International President will come to Grants Pass. Next Month (September) we are having an orientation for the incoming students in Rogue River. They will go rafting and camping over the weekend.
For more information e-mail Mark Hamm at : mhamm@rosenet.net
* Idaho D. 5400 *
All the exchange students already arrived since the first week of August 1998. They will have an orientation on September 9 - 14 1998. They will go camping at Salmon, Idaho and rafting at Snake River. This will be the fist time they meet each others.
* Connecticut D. 7980 *
We are going to have a welcoming picnic for all the incoming exchange student by the end of the month. Every exchange students already left the district around middle of August. And the second week in October, we are going on a trip to Philadelphia for a week. This year we only have 9 exchange students.
* CESSEX ( Central States Exchange Student ) D. 6620 - D. 6580 *
Central States is a multi-district program consisting of 16 districts in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, USA part of Ontario, Canada. As an organization, we exchange approximately 600 students ( total, in and out ) each year. I am responsible for our exchanges to and from Asia. We exchange with India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (South), Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. This year we are sending 45 students to Asia and will receive 50 students from Asia.
For more information e-mail John Wetting at : jweting@ibm.net
There are 22 exchange students this year from our district. We are sending to Japan, Australia, America, France,Canada, and Belgium. This is the first time we sent exchange student to Belgium. The last group to United States left on August 14 1998. Next month ( September ) we are starting our promotion for the next year team. This year we do not have any exchange student because of the situation in Indonesia. Around end of October 1998 the Rotex ( the one that has returned ) will have a reorientation in Puncak.
For more information e-mail Wasito Pribadi at : pbd@centrin.net.id
When the new students arrive in August to Sweden there will be a big language camp in District 2380 since there's not many exchange students. The world know how to speak Swedish. So they will spent about 2 weeks together learning how to speak Swedish during that time also do a lot of sightseeing in the Southern and middle parts of Sweden. There are usually a few more camps arranged for the students to get together but it varies a lot from year to year. Sometimes they got lucky and get to go up to Stockholm to see when they give out the Nobel Prize. That is a very exciting event but not everyone gets to go.
The exchange students already arrived here from all over the world. They won't do anything yet now together with the others. But on September 13-14, they will go hiking at Mount Warning in Tyalgum Pop. And on October, they will see The Jacaranda festival ( flowers ).
All the exchange students start to arrive one by one in August. For a month they will not meet the other first. And on mid September we will have an orientation district in Lake Chelan, Washington U.S.A. And on October, we will go to Silver Star Mountain, Vermont.
There are 12 exchange students leaving these year. They will go to America, South Africa, Australia, and Canada. The exchange students will start arriving end of August. We will have 11 exchange student arriving from America, Australia, South Africa, Germany and Canada. In mid September we will have our first get together in Buhl Alsace for a day.