Kimberly A. Smith, a sophomore at Laguna Beach High School, is
continuing her education this summer by attending high school in
Daireux, Argentina.
She is in the Pampas region of Argentina, which is where the
ranches are, approximately five hours south of Buenos Aires. Her
two-month high school program will be in Spanish, using the
o7porteno f7dialect, heavily influenced by Italian, which is unique
to Argentina.
Kimberly is a member of the Interact Club at the high school and
is one of 8,000 students participating in the Rotary Youth Exchange
program. This program offers high school students between the ages of
15 and 18 the opportunity to spend up to a year in a foreign country
as an exchange student, living with a local Rotary family. Other
students have already left for Ecuador, Brazil, South Africa,
Australia and New Zealand.
Kimberly's foreign exchange experience is sponsored by the Newport
Beach-Irvine Rotary Club.
In September, Kimberly and her parents, Lenda and W. Baily Smith,
will host the first ever Rotary Exchange student from China. Nancy
Chang is a 16-year-old honor student at Beijing National High School
and is being sponsored by the Laguna Beach Rotary Club for one year.
