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Victoria

2011-12 Inbound from Belgium

Sponsor: Rotary Club of Esneux-Aywaille, District 1630, Belgium

Host: Rotary Club of Tarpon Springs, District 6950, Florida

Victoria's Bio

My name is Victoria.
I come from Liege, Belgium.
My mother is Philippine and my father Belgian. I have an older brother called Richard and a cute dog named Will.

When I have free time, I really enjoy going to the gym because I’m an athletic person. Thus I can work out, go to collective lessons like dance or spinning and see some friends. After I can relax in the spa. Then, I like to play tennis and love to go running for some miles. Also, I like to go out with my friends. We usually go to the city center, to the restaurant or to the cinema.

I wanted to be an exchange student for so many reasons! First of all, I have always loved traveling and discovering foreign countries and their cultures, meet people having different mentalities, see outstanding landscapes... In high school, I had participated to an exchange program with a school in London. This experience was amazing and I just wanted to do it again but for a long term. I knew a lot of people who had that "exchange student" experience and encouraged me to do so. I found their stories so fascinating that I thought "It's now my turn to do so". My family and I had hosted an exchange students from the USA. Thus, I had the opportunity to know what being an exchange student was. I am an open minded person, optimistic and always ready for new challenge. This year was just made for me!

During my exchange, I would like to be involved in family and school’s social life. I hope to meet people and make new friends. I am wishing to discover a different school system, to participate to school activities and to be involve in sport or events club. More than that, I wish to take new lessons for preparing my university studies.

I would like to travel inside another country in order to visit various landscape and learn the culture, traditions of non Europeans. As I will be far from home, I want to acquire independence and autonomy. I will mature by learning to adapt to unusual situations and this will help preparing my future plans.

Thanks a lot to the International Rotary for letting me live what has started to be the best year of my life!