Merry Christmas
From all the Exchange Students of District 5495

Christmas is over for all our foreign exchange students. They had their district wide Christmas party, including the Grand Canyon and its many wonders covered in powdery snow.
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To celebrate the holidays, they even did a White Elephant Gift Exchange and some of the highlights of the presents, that got stolen a lot, were a pair of slippers, a cozy blanket and a plastic lightsaber.
Another trip some of the exchange students got to do is to go to Mexico with some of the Rotarians from two of our Phoenix clubs. The Phoenix 101 and Mesa West club members Chuck Flint, Brendan Kennedy and Dave Howell
organized a trip down to a small fishing village named Puerto Lobos, located at the coast of the Sea of Cortez. Chuck has been visiting the town for over 40 years now and this year’s December trip was a lot of fun for all exchange students, who were able to go. Six of them went on the trip: Caio, Elsa, Maci, Jacob, Lisa B and Max.


Happy New Year!