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Rotary Youth Exchange
In
Southeastern and Central Ohio
What an exciting adventure awaits you,
as a potential Rotary exchange student or host family, as
you look to expand your horizons as they've never been
expanded before. We invite you to explore our site, learn
more about the program, and, if it's right for you, take
those first steps toward one of the most amazing, memorable,
adventurous years of your life.
Become
A Rotary Youth Exchange Student
If you want to be part of this amazing program doing your
part to change the world and change your life, this is the
web site you need.
Click Here.
Who
Are We?
Rotary International is the world's oldest and most
international service organization, with over 1.2 million
members in 32,000 clubs, in almost 200 countries. The
official Rotary motto is, "Service
Above Self", and Rotarians live their lives in
accordance with the Four
Way Test. Rotary Youth Exchange is the top rated
exchange program, run by people dedicated to Youth Exchange
and International Service.
Robin
Smith Salutes 6690 in the Amazon Region of Ecuador
The New 2010-2011
Long Term Exchange Students and their Country Assignments
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Schedule
of Events
St. Patrick's Day Event
Hosted by Dublin AM Rotary
Map To Dublin Recreation Center |
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Saturday |
March 13, 2010 |
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Students to meet at Dublin
Recreation Center 5600 Post
Road, Dublin, OH 43017 |
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9:30 AM |
Depart for parade (WEAR COMFORTABLE
SHOES) |
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1.5 mile walk from Recreation Center
to Parade start location |
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11:00 AM |
Parade begins |
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Walk in parade, hand out candy |
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12:00 PM |
Parade ends |
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Head to volunteer activity American
Cancer Society event |
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4:00 PM |
Return to Dublin Recreation Center
Training Sessions for Outbounds
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4:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
Fun time at Recreation Center |
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Swim, Play Basketball, Use Teen
Lounge |
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Training sessions for in and
outbound students |
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7:30 PM |
Dinner provided by Dublin AM Rotary |
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8:30 PM – Late! |
Access to Recreation Center for
Rotary Students only |
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Dodgeball, Basketball, Music |
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Sunday |
March 14, 2010 |
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Breakfast provided by Dublin AM
Rotary |
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9:00 AM |
Student departure |
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Host families to pick up at Dublin
Recreation Center
5600 Post Road, Dublin, OH 43017 |
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What to bring: |
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Sleeping bag |
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Air mattress |
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Pillow |
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Swimsuit |
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Sneakers |
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Snack to share |
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Toiletry items |
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Warm Coat for Parade and Service
Project |
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Earthquake
DamageSara Mauer sent us
this picture taken in Talca after the
earthquake. Her series of pictures show
much of the damage and that people are coping
with it. One picture show people around an
electrical socket recharging their cell phones. |
Sara
stands beside a small sample of some of the
supplies raised to help people who have lost
everything in Chile. Sara and her friends
took these supplies in pick up trucks to
distribute these supplies. |

Sara Maurer and her friend
raise money for people in the stricken area of
Constitution in Chile. |
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Sara Maurer from Bexley living in
Talca, Chile |

Catherine Correa from
Concepcion and Santiago, Chile living in
Westerville OH |

Diego Alvarado from Cartagena,
Chile living in Hilliard OH |
Chilean
Exchange Students Cope In The Wake Of The Massive
Earthquake
See Rotary District's 6690 Plea For Help from DG
Ram Gawande
We have tracked down all our exchange
students. Most of them live within a 100
miles of the Epicenter of the massive 8.8
Earthquake which occurred last weekend.
All our students in Chile and safe and doing
well. The families of our two inbounds, Diego
Alvarado and Catherine Correa are accounted for
and safe. Catherine, who is sponsored by
the Rotary Club of Westerville Sunrise, only
heard about the safety of her father after 5
days of trying. Catherine was a member of the
Santiago Interact Club, which is working on
relief for the victims of this earthquake.
Bexley's Sara Maurer who lives in Talca, which
suffered severe earthquake damage in the older
sections of the city, has expressed a
desire to stay and help with the recovery
efforts. Sara is a student at the Columbus
School for Girls.
A letter from District Governor Ram Gawande
Dear kind hearted Rotarians
Small plan to help Chilean
Earthquake disaster
Another disaster has come to
test the strength of our spirits, our
generosity, and our capacity to serve. The
Chilean Earthquake is the worst in some ways as
it touches our heart in a very different way as
we are close to Chilean people through our Youth
Exchange students. We have been receiving and
sending youth exchange students who have touched
many hearts. We received an email from Sara
Maurer. She is safe but her heart is broken to
see the destruction and suffering. She wants to
stay and help the victims.
Sandy Pyle, the District YEP
coordinator is hoping to raise enough money to
purchase a Shelter Box to send to Sara's club
from our District. Sara’s family in Columbus,
along with two other Chilean students, Catherine
Correa in the Westerville Sunrise Club and Diego
Alvarado in the Hilliard Club are inspiring us
to show the true spirit of Rotary and pitch in
to help our friends in Chile.
With our growing experience in
responding to disasters, we have a strategy in
place for the wise management of our donations.
We will use the same conduit that we used for
Haiti, with the idea that we will send Shelter
Boxes and financial assistance in the name of
Sara and the other Youth Exchange Students.
Please send your donations to
Gallipolis Rotary Club
Attn: Shawn Siders
PO Box 214
Gallipolis OH 45631-0214
Please make all checks payable
to the Gallipolis Rotary Club and put
Chile Disaster Relief in the
memo line.
Thanking you,
Ram Gawande, D.G.
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Helping
Haiti From Afar
Tatiana Lundstrom, currently a Rotary
Exchange student in Taipei, Taiwan and the exchange students
in her district over there are helping out the Haiti relief
effort. Their project is called "Hugs for Haiti", and what
they do is offer hugs to people over there in exchange for
donations to purchase a Shelter Box. Their goal was to
raise $1,000, but they have already reached that, so now
they are working on their second Shelter Box. Tatiana
is the daughter of 6690 RYE Vice Chair Walter Lundstrom and
his wife Gail. |
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6690
Student Greg Miller, helps start a new Interact and Rotaract
Clubs In Blagoveshchensk, Russia
Greg Miller is a Rotary Exchange
Student living in Blagoveshchensk, Russia (that our club is
sponsoring)
for for the 2009-2010 school year. He
is 18 years old, and is taking this gap year between his
graduation from high school in Columbus, Ohio, and his
entrance into Georgetown University in the Autumn of 2010.
According to his blog, Greg received an email from the
current president of the Vladivostok-Eco Rotaract Club
asking him if he’d be interested in helping to create a
Rotaract Club in Blagoveshchensk. He, of course, agreed to
help with this new club. He made a speech to his Rotary home
club about it at their weekly meeting. There were mixed
feelings about starting a Rotaract club from the members,
but the President supported it. Greg went online to the
Rotary International website and read all he could about
Rotaract to learn how it works. On November 27th, five
members from the Khabarovsk Rotaract club arrived in
Blagoveshchensk. The President, Dmitry Burchak, and five
girls from his club. They met at the train station and five
different Rotarians hosted each of the students at their
home for the weekend.
On Friday afternoon, they made a
presentation at a preventative medicine clinic run by one of
Greg’s host clubs members. They had about 30 young men and
women from different universities around the city come to
their presentation. They listened to them present about
Rotary and Rotaract for over three hours! They explained
what Rotary does, and also told about what the Khabarovsk
club and other clubs around Russia have done. Greg also had
the opportunity to present (in Russia) telling them who he
was, and how he help create Rotaract in their city. At the
end of the meeting, they invited the participants to help
with the public activism project that they would be carrying
out the following day. They also invited them to attend the
training session they would hold on Sunday, to start to
train new members how to run Rotaract. They received a
strong and interested response from all in attendance. They
didn’t stop there. On Saturday morning, they made a
presentation about Interact to a School #5 in Blagoveshchensk.
Greg shared about his experience at his High School, (St.
Charles HS), where he was a member and President of the
Interact club his senior year. Greg invited them to the
training session on Sunday. That afternoon, they carried out
their activism projected called “Quit Smoking-Eat Vitamins”.
They went to a shopping center owned by one of the
Rotarians, and offered the people there the option to
exchange their packs of cigarettes for an apple. They had
about 15 students show up, both from the presentation the
day before and from School #5 to help them carry out the
project. They collected over forty packs of cigarettes in
just three short hours. As they were leaving they were
stopped by a young journalist from the Amurskaya Pravda, the
biggest newspaper in the Amur Oblast. She questioned them
about their project and about Rotaract. A few days later, a
large article, complete with a color picture, appeared on
page 3 of the newspaper, giving them great advertising
regarding Rotary, Rotaract and Interact.
http://ampravda.ru2009/12/01/024083.html. To learn more
about all the mazing experiences Greg is having and how he
is growing in Rotary, visit his blog at
http://gregsrussianexchange.blogspot.com |
Requirements for Outbound Exchange Students
Download in Adobe PDF Format
As an exchange student, you’re job is to be a
goodwill ambassador representing Rotary, District
6690, and the US. People here in the US will judge
our program on your behavior, and the people you
touch overseas will literally get their strongest
perception about the US from you (good or bad…).
Part of being an effective goodwill ambassador is to
be prepared, and because of that, the following
learning requirements are mandatory parts of the
program.
Four research papers
and each paper should be 750-1000 words. The purpose
of the papers is for you to be prepared for your
exchange. Each paper must be emailed to
WalterLundstrom@gmail.com
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What is Rotary? (Due 2 days
before the December 5 YE weekend. Also bring a
copy to the district interviews the same
weekend)
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USA, Ohio, and
your home town. (Due one week before the
February YE weekend. Also bring a copy to the YE
weekend)
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Your host country
and city. (Due one week before the April YE
weekend. Also bring a copy to the YE weekend)
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The difference in culture between
your home country and host country. This paper
takes a lot of research, because you’re looking
for the deep cultural differences, not music and
food. (Due one week before the July YE weekend.
Also bring a copy to the YE weekend)
Paper 1-3 are for all
outbounds. Paper 4 is only for long term outbounds.
• In addition to the
above papers, after you get your country match up,
you’ll also need to translate the letter that was in
your application to your new host language. Please
email it to me, and also bring a copy to the next YE
weekend.
Failing to deliver
any of these research papers or the translated
letter on time, will jeopardize your exchange and
may result in you not being part of the program!
When you get your
country match, you must also start to learn your
host language. There are numerous programs
available. Rosetta Stone might be one of the best
ones, but that is up to each student to find what
works best for you and your budget.
In a couple of
months, you’ll need to get in touch with your
sponsoring Rotary club to setup a time in April or
May for you to do a 20 minutes Power Point
presentation. I’ll give you more information about
that later.
You have started a
life changing experience that VERY few people go
through. I don’t know the statistics for short term
exchanges, but according to a National Geographic
study last year, only one US high school student in
7,000 becomes an exchange student! You’re very
special!
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Exchange Stories & Photo Adventures
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Stuff Happening
Around The World
With 6690 Exchange Students
To Read The Outbound Student's
Adventures Click Here |
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Greg Miller is braving the Russian
Winter. Here he is at a Soviet
War Memorial. |
Robin Smith is
mastering her blowgun technique in the
Amazon Rainforest. |
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Sara Mauer (l) in
a national park in Patagonia in
Chile. |

Tatiana Lundstrom with
friends in Taiwan. |
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Sara Mauer at the bottom of the
Earth. |

Sheridan Rowley is having
a blast in Japan.
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Small World
for Athens Exchange Students
Danielle Fultz
(6690 outbound in Belgium this
year) and Mathieu Reyniers (6690
inbound from Belgium 2007-2008)
ran into each other at a bistro
in Brussels.
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Alanna Hurdley
with friends in Finland. |
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Danielle
Fultz (4th from left) in
Paris |

HaiWeh Peng with
German Exchange Student Niklas while
on the Disney Trip. |
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Nina Kovacev (Croatia)
with the
drummer from the Rock
Group AFI, after one of her concerts.
His girl friend is Croatian so he spoke to
her in Croatian and gave her his set list.
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Kayla Stock at Lake Como Italy |
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Short
Term Journals for the Summer of 2009
2009-2010 Inbounds
Learn More About
Our New Exchange Students
Inbounds
Inbound Stories
Outbounds
Outbound Stories
2010-2011 Outbounds Begin
Their Journey
There is an excitement in the
air in 6690 Youth Exchange. Our 2009-2010 Inbounds
have been placed in their clubs and are ready to come to the
USA and become part of the youth exchange family. The
students are expected to arrive in Mid-August. They
spend the first days of their exchange with their counselors
and then to their first host families.
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Laura
Braun Cano
Chapadao Da Sul Brazil
Dublin Worthington Rotary Club
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Nike
Christensen Annika
Odenthal, Germany
Coshocton Rotary Club |
Florian
Dufour
Liege,
Belgium
Zanesville Rotary Club |
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Hai-Wei
Peng
Yonghe, Taiwan
Granville Rotary Club |
Rodolfo
Avelar
Teixeira Moreira
Londrina, Brazil
Delaware Rotary Club |

Diego
Esteban
Alvarado
Cifuentes Chile
Hilliard Rotary Club |
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Caroline
Sevil
La Tour
de Salvagny, France
Pike
Country Rotary Club |
Juan
Carlos
Segovia Sanchez
Ibarra,
Ecuador
Lancaster Rotary Club |
Sawarot
Limtragul
Muang,
Thailand
Chillicothe First Capital Rotary Club |
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Martin
Rutrle
Pisek,
Czech Rep.
Athens
Rotary Club |

Jose
Aguirre
Irapuato, Mexico
Columbus Rotary Club
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Yukino
Tsujimori
Nabari
Shi, Japan
Lancaster Rotary Club |
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Nina
Kovacev
Djurdjevac, Croatia
Rotary Club of
Westerville Sunrise |

Pablo
Moya
Catamarca, Argentina
Rotary Club of
Westerville Sunrise
January -January |
Catherine
Correa-Salgada
Santiago, Chile
Rotary Club of Westerville Sunrise
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