Service Circuit: Macomb Rotary groups appreciate host families
Apr 9, 2018We ask them to give two- to three-minute speeches and they are phenomenal. Some leave us laughing. Some kids tell us their thoughts and make me think those students should work for the state department because what they said was very insightful,” Lichty said.He belongs to the Clarkston Rotary Club and works with exchange students in the southeast Michigan-Ontario district of Rotary.Host Family Appreciation Day is at 2 p.m. April 29 at DeCarlo’s Banquet and Convention Center, 6015 E. 10 Mile Road, Warren.AdvertisementStudents receive blazers that become part of their uniform and identify them as exchange students. Most jackets end up with practically every square inch covered by pins and patches from their exchange year.“This will showcase our Youth Exchange students, their host families and the families of the students going overseas,” Jan Loch, of the Warren Rotary Club that meets at DeCarlo’s, said. “We will hear the stories of our inbound students as they tell us some of the things they experienced while living here for a year. We meet the North American students who will be spending next year in a different country. We will be thanking all the families that make this program work.“Last year, we had more than 100 non-Rotarians in the audience,” she said. Registration is required and available on the district website, rotary6380.org.“It used to be that the inbound students were always highlighted at the (Rotary) district conference but then the families don’t get to hear the speeches,” Lichty said. “So we said let’s invite prospective families to hear the ‘been there, done that’ stories. It should be fun.”Anyone interested in the Rotary Youth Exchange program may call Lichty at 248-625-4244 and discuss the “joys of being a host family.” He knows because he and his wife, Rotarian Mary Sloan, have hosted three foreign exchange students.“The first was a girl from France outside of the Cognac region,” Lichty said. “She was a gem. She’d get ready for bed then come out and do her homewor... (The Macomb Daily)
