Our exchange student from Brazil

As part of the student exchange described above, Vancouver Sunrise will welcome Luisa Fiori de Godoy, 16, a student from a small town in Brazil, in August. She will live with local families and attend school at King George.

Luisa's father is a dentist in a Brazilian hospital and her mother has a bakery. Lindola, where the family lives, has a population of 7,000 and its principal industry is mineral water. Luisa lives with her parents, her 10-year-old sister plus her grandmother and great-grandmother. Luisa's mother was a Rotary exchange student when she was in school.

Worldwide, more than 8,500 high school students from over 80 countries participate in these Rotary exchanges each year. All of them return home with exciting stories of their year abroad and the many friends they now have in foreign countries.