Jamie Tripp said it gave him great pleasure to introduce Charlotte, who arrived in Midland a shy little girl and who now is an outgoing and enthusiastic ambassador for the exchange program.  She has been dedicated to her studies, has made lots of friends from here and, through the exchange activities, from all over the world.  He and his family enjoyed her visit.

Charlotte said she was just back from her East Coast trip which took the group to Montreal, Hopewell Cape, Cape Breton, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown and Quebec.  She was happy to see all these different parts of Canada.  Apparently she has an archive of 4,200 pictures which she had edited down to something less than that and she presented a slide show of her year in Canada.  It looked pretty obvious that she had a great time.
She plans to come back to visit.  She hopes to go to Brazil next year.  She has two more years in High School where she plans to study languages with an intention to go into some International Business.  In response to a question she said she saw no need to improve the program in Midland.  She has enjoyed it immensely and is very happy to have had the opportunity.