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12A Polk County Itemizer-Observer • April 26, 2017
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JOLENE GUZMAN/ Itemizer-Observer
Maurice Dalton, Lindsey Krumroy, and Alex Finch are Rotary Youth Exchange students.
Students take part
in exchange program
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
DALLAS — For Dallas
High School senior Maurice
Dalton and sophomore Lind-
sey Krumroy, a chance to dis-
cover a foreign language and
culture was irresistible.
They received letters from
Dallas Rotary at the end of
their freshman year inviting
them to participate in the or-
ganization’s youth exchange
program during their junior
year. They accepted.
“I was also interested in
seeing what it would be like
to go to a place and live my
whole life where there’s not a
single person I’ve previously
met,” said Dalton, who spent
last year in Berlin. “Totally
clean slate, fresh start, to see
what that is like.”
Krumroy, who will spend
next year in Finland, said her
first thought about the
prospect was “why not?”
“I wanted something new.
I wanted to go do something
that wasn’t normal,” she said.
“I’ve been friends with a lot
of exchange students, so I’ve
heard a lot about exchange,
and it seems like something
that would be fun to do.”
Rotary sponsors the ex-
changes working with dis-
tricts in other countries, so
students can rely on the fa-
miliarity and support of Ro-
tary before and throughout
their year abroad. Krumroy is
attending classes preparing
her for the inevitability of
culture shock and learning to
communicate when you
don’t speak the local lan-
guage well — or at all.
“There’s a series of orienta-
tions and trainings where
they teach us about different
things, like culture shock and
things like that,” Krumroy
said. “They had us do exer-
cises, like they had us create
a random language and we
had to communicate without
them understanding what we
are saying.”
Clint Branum, the Dallas
Rotary youth exchange coor-
dinator, said the program
looks for high school fresh-
man interested in the travel
year. Rotary is hosting an in-
formational meeting for stu-
dents and parents at DHS at
6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Stu-
dents don’t have to belong to
Rotary to participate.
Alexander Finch, who is
from Germany, is spending a
year in Dallas. His older
brother participated in an ex-
change, so he was eager to
have the same experience.
“I got really excited be-
cause I really love traveling. I
really love the language and
wanted to get to know new
people. That’s why I wanted
to do it. It’s really fun,” Finch
said. “I was lucky. I got really
good host families that
helped me in all the ways
they could.”
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