Rotary Club of Tucson will be hosting (with some help from the Tucson Sunrise Club) a male student from Brazil beginning in early August. His name is Pedro and he will be a junior or senior at Ironwood Ridge High School on the northwest side of town. The Hoffman Family will be his first host family for his year of Exchange. We are recruiting two more families for Pedro. They do not have to be Rotarians and can be your friends and neighbors or your place of worship friends. We will need for the second family to take Pedro just before the end of the year.
Typically, all Rotary Youth Exchange students have three families during their stay and we hope to accomplish that. If you know of someone who might be interested please call Dave Gallaher or Jennifer Hoffman.
Meanwhile, I spent Memorial Day weekend on Mt Lemmon as part of our very small District committee for RYE performing training and orientation for this coming year’s outbound students. We have five great students heading out for their 
worldly adventure. Three are from Nogales, AZ and two are from Sierra Vista. We did not get a single applicant from the Tucson area for the first time in a long time. We spent the long weekend with our District Chair Cindy Harrison and reviewing the different cultures and the do’s and don’t’ s and how to have a successful Exchange year. Our students are headed to Thailand, Slovakia, Italy, Switzerland and Brazil. Please help our YEO (Jennifer Hoffman) this year when Pedro arrives. He is an energetic young man that likes many different things. Call Dave or Jennifer to sign up for the Youth Exchange committee!!
