Spanish Exchange Student Alba Shares Retrospective on Her Year in Canada
Posted by John Borst
on Jun 07, 2015
At Wednesday’s meeting Alba Posas Solandes reflected back on her year in Canada while we got to celebrate her recent birthday.
Alba's cake was shared with all |
President Brian presents Alba with a card and small gift |
Alba shares experience at Rtn. Peter Keen's |
Alba's visit to Blue Lake |
Alba’s first few days were spent with the Keens where she got to experience tubing and fishing on Thunder Lake.
She then moved to the Carlucci family, during which time, she got to experience a calm sail on Lake Wabigoon, caught her first fish, and experienced her first small plane ride.
Alba also had exchange student get togethers where she even learned to curl. Other Canadian experiences were skiing at Whistler with her parents when they visited, her first snow machine and ATV rides, plucking a partridge and watching a deer being butchered, ice fishing and walking on water aka an ice road.
Some school Outdoor Ed experiences included a dog sled ride, sleeping overnight in a Quinzee (house made of snow) and tree planting.
Alba shared the fact that she learned to love eating anything as long as it had maple syrup on it.
In closing Alba revealed that she has had some of the best experiences of her life and thanked Rotarians for the opportunity.