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Show 1 t V V : ' " 'rr:- ! i L I "". .. : ; , - -- ; j - snawn Meador, at the last meeting of the Te Puke Rotary Club in New Zealand belore he returned home, was presented with a souvenir doll and a box of Kiwifruit by Club President Doug Caird. The real name of the fruit, says Shawn, is Chinese Gooseberry, and he describes it as tasting like a mix among strawberries, bananas and citrus. 'lloab Exchange Students Coming and Going The Rotary International Exchange Student program is in full swing in Moab. with two local young people going abroad for a year, and another rsl just returned. wl Shawn Meador. son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meador. returned return-ed home July 23 after a year in Te Puke, New Zealand. While there he lived with three different families, all with children either grown and gone, or older than himself, and attended the local school, which he reports as being completely different than here." It students don't achieve a certain level on year-end examinations, which they 'sit' there rather than 'take,' they must repeat the year. Asked how he did, he reported that he had better than passed the tests. Shawn had the opportunity to go to Australia also, and while there spent ten davs w ith Peter Walsh and family in Sunbury, a suburb of Melbourne. Mel-bourne. Peter was an exchange ex-change student in Moab, returning to Australia at the end of 1973. After completing the summer sum-mer working at United Campgrounds, Camp-grounds, Shawn will attend his senior year of high school, and then plans to go to college. He says he can't put into words just w hat the year has done for him, but when he tries, those listening detect a strongly Australian-New Zealand accent. ac-cent. Peter Walsh's parents probably thought he sounded awfully American when he returned home, too. ys L...... " ' ' I f i r 1 -1 r Roly Young To Bolivia Susan Czark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Czark, left July 30 for Santa Cruz. Bolivia, a city of some 100,000 population. She says she doesn't know very much about the area yet, but hopes to be able to converse adequately in Spanish, having completed 3 quarters studying the language lan-guage through SUCCE. Susan graduated this May from Grand County High, and will also attend school in Bolivia, the university, she hopes. To Australia Roly Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Curt Young, will leave Aug. 22 and spend a year in Grange, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, which is also a city Shawn had the chance to visit while he was there. Roly reports that Grange is located on the ocean, and is considered to be a winemaking center of the area. He will attend his junior year of school there, and is looking forward to the chance to study in other s Susan Czark scho Is and to travel through another country. Jobs at United Campground and as a swimming instructor, for the second year, have kept Rolv busy this simmer, but when he arrives in Australia, he will find it's not summer there currently, but winter. Both Susan and Roly have said they will keep Moab informed of their activities, plus give some information about the areas in which they will be living by writing an occasional letter to The Times as w ell as to their families and friends. The International Exchange program is one of the most important activities conducted annually by the Rotary Club of Moab, according to President Bill Benge. The program has been conducted, with students going both directions, for a number of years, and the club hopes to continue and expand this program which provides such tremendous opportunities opportunit-ies for local students, as well as opportunities in meeting people from other lands by host families in Moab. Currently Cur-rently heading up the program for the Moab Club is Dr. Paul Mayberry. Others who have headed it in the past have been Bill Meador, Bob Norman and J. G. Pinkerton. |
