Kalgi Amin – my year in Austria
Posted by Rita Gayle
Carole Berry introduced returning youth exchange student, Kalgi Amin . Kalgi is a student from Mayfield Secondary School. She returned last Friday after spending a year in Austria. She feels as if this was all a dream and it blows her mind that she was chosen to be in the one percent that got to go on youth exchange. Kalgi showed us the most beautiful landscapes of Austria.
Her first host family lived in a small town with about 500 people. They
knew no English whatsoever and as a result Kalgi now speaks fluent
German. Despite the language barrier, they were wonderful people and she
had the opportunity to travel with them to Venice.
She spent 6-8 months with her second host family. She got to see a lot of Italy with them and she learned some Italian as well.
There are 92 exchange students in Austria and Rotary organized a ski camp euro tour; of the 92, 70 attended. Kalgi got to see and live a lot and the things she learned was unbelievable. She learned a lot of life lessons from being an exchange student and she realized how important family values are. She also learned never to give up and if you keep pushing, nothing can stop you. She encouraged everyone to try something new, whatever it is, could be a new sport, music, and language but just don’t give up.
Kalgi considers herself to be extremely lucky and thanked the Rotary club for giving her this wonderful opportunity to be an exchange student.
She spent 6-8 months with her second host family. She got to see a lot of Italy with them and she learned some Italian as well.
There are 92 exchange students in Austria and Rotary organized a ski camp euro tour; of the 92, 70 attended. Kalgi got to see and live a lot and the things she learned was unbelievable. She learned a lot of life lessons from being an exchange student and she realized how important family values are. She also learned never to give up and if you keep pushing, nothing can stop you. She encouraged everyone to try something new, whatever it is, could be a new sport, music, and language but just don’t give up.
Kalgi considers herself to be extremely lucky and thanked the Rotary club for giving her this wonderful opportunity to be an exchange student.