Surfers Sunrise farewells two Youth Exchange Students

Posted by Franz Huber

on Jan 17, 2015

Another first for Surfers Sunrise: whilst we have in recent years again been very active on the International Youth Exchange Scene, thanks to the huge efforts of AG Darrell Brown and our current Youth Services Director Chris Thurtell, this year we are sending two! Felicity Cooper (right in above

picture) leaves for Helsinki, Finland and Gabrielle Bury (separate picture) will shortly land in Minden, near Hannover in Germany. Thanks to modern communication technology, Gabrielle had a Skype link from her home in Moree in Northern NSW to Simon Brook's iPad and we had a brief farewell Video Phone chat. Isn't modern technoloy wonderful?

Hyvää matkaa ! Felicity, und Gute Reise! Gabrielle.

And don't forget: we are all looking forward to receiving your monthly reports!

Meanwhile, Isabelle Franich (left on above picture) has last week returned from France, and of course we have our inbound student from Austria, Laura Burtscher (centre).

And, to top it up, last Wednesday Elliott Cox, whom we sponsored to attend a Rotary Youth Transition Seminar (RYTS) gave a presentation of his experiences - see separate report.