Each year, District 5050 encourages their Clubs in the District to participate in the Rotary International Youth Exchange program. This year, our Club is sponsoring Josie Mai Jarillo Odegaard. The program on Friday, July 21st featured Josie making a presentation in English and Norwegian as she prepares to leave for Norway on August 7th for a year as our Rotary International Youth Exchange representative.
En liten presentasjon om Josie. Her first host family in Norway lives in an apartment 30 minutes from downtown Oslo. The school she will attend has 1,000 students. Josie will be taking general studies. Classes in VG2 which is the equivalent to a senior year in the United States.
The host family has a set of twins, a boy, and a girl as well as an 8-year-old. Josie will only be staying with two families during her year long exchange. She will be looking for one of her favorite Norwegian bands, with ski competition on the agenda and she added that her school does have an Interact Club.
Our Club could not ask for a better representative of our youth than Josie. Ironically, she has family in Norway. We will be looking forward to reports from time to time telling us of her experience in Norway.