Pictured here is New Westminster ROTARY Royal City club President Dale Framingham with Outbound Exchange Student Abigail LeBerg who returned from her student exchange in Austria and provided the breakfast meeting with an incredible update about life as an outbound exchange student .
Abigail was the outbound exchange student in 2023/24 for both ROTARY clubs in New Westminster. She is now back at New Westminster Secondary School completing her senior year. She is part of the basketball team at school, as well as the Interact club, and is very excited about the opportunity to be able to give back to Rotary, after such an amazing year. Abigail's presentation provided our ROTARY club breakfast attendee's with insights from a year spent as an exchange student in another country, her experiences and lessons. Like that Home is where your people are, not necessarily the place, and that you should always stretch yourself to experience new things because if you wait until you are comfortable, you will miss great experiences. Being an exchange student no only enriched the lives of those she meets and shares her storey with, but also any student who participates. If you want to be a host family to a ROTARY sponsored exchange student, please reach out to our club.