Dome and Pawel, Our Rotary Youth Exchange Students, Will Make Presentations
Dome and Pawel will share information about their home countries. This is always a very interesting report as they will be returning home in the next few weeks. It has been a privilege to have them as a part of our club for this past year. We will miss them. Their bio's follow.
RYE Inbound Student 2013-2014 Domenica Viteri from Ecuador
Domenica is from the city of Quito, Ecuador. Her nickname is Dome’ and she has a little brother back home. Her father, Carlos, has his own company and sells domestic appliances. Her mother, Ligia Elizabeth, works in the financial department of Dome’s school. Domenica loves music and plays the guitar and piano. Also she is interested in dancing. At home, she has a close relationship with her family and has a lot of fun just being with them.
Since she arrived in Texas she has been with two host families and is a junior at Atascocita High School. First Semester, she was hosted by the Petsch family. The Petsch’s are a very interesting family as they have two sons and a daughter. The oldest son, Chris is currently on his Outbound Rotary Youth Exchange to Ecuador and is sponsored by our Club. Truly an EXCHANGE! Also the Petsch’s are from Germany, so Dome enjoyed not only learning American customs and culture, but German, too. Her second host family is awesome and they have two daughters so Dome finally has “sisters”.
When she returns to Ecuador she hopes to go to college and major in child psychology because she likes kids a lot.
RYE Inbound Student 2013-2014 Pawel KAPKA from Poland
Pawel is from the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland that has a population of about 380,000. Rotary District 2230 and The Rotary Club of Bydgoszcz sponsor him. His father Grzegprz is a businessman who manages a company that produces plastics. His mother, Hanna Maria is also a businesswoman and has a shop with sports clothes. Pawel’s older sister, Paulina was also a Rotary Exchange Student to the USA. The Kapka family has hosted several Inbound RYE students over the past years and Pawel keeps in touch with them. In Poland Pawel enjoyed many sports such as windsurfing, handball, soccer, snowboarding, and swimming. Pawel has 3 dogs back in Poland and enjoyed spending time with them as well as reading, listening to music and spending time with friends and family.
He arrived here in August and has been hosted by James and Kim Davitt. He is attending Kingwood High School and is a junior. In the time here he has visited NYC along with a few places in Texas such as Austin and Ft. Stockton. This spring he will live with another host family and learn even more about our culture here in Kingwood/Humble/Atascocita area.
In the future Pawel plans to be a business man along side his father. No doubt, Pawel will continue in Rotaract or Rotary as he knows and feels passionate about Rotary.