Two short-term exchange students, Isabella Groenewald and Corli Rossouw of Paarl Girls’ High, see here with Rotarian Hester Visagie holding a Hungarian club banner, were hugely excited when they heard they had both been approved for an exchange with two host families in Budapest, Hungary.
They spent the December school holiday there, and experienced snow for the first time in their lives. They were royally entertained by their host families and visited surrounding town as well as neighbouring countries like Austria and the Czech Republic.
According to Isabella she went to the local school with her host sister, attending mostly English classes. She found that the school was more informal than her Paarl school with students wearing everyday clothes in class.
“The teachers and students seemed to have an easy-going, close relationship and were more like friends than I am used to.”
“We went ice skating on the huge BudaPest rink which is as big as a number of football fields. It was a wonderful experience!”
Both cannot wait to go travelling again as the bug has really bit them.