Our Exchange Student, Luisa Maetus from Brazil, was our speaker today. She said she lived in Sao Palo where the native language is Portugese. While in this country she has been staying with Mike and Nancy Herr and attended Madison high school. She went camping for the first time while in Michigan, she said, and really enjoyed it! She's made many friends while she's been here. She attended a Tiger's game and enjoyed it even though it rained. She thanked our club for helping to subsidize the cost of tickets to Cedar Points even though it rained that day she went, too!

She attended a Halloween Party in Dearborn and had fun dressing up and “tick-or-treating” since they do not celebrate this in Brazil. She played in a musical at the new Performing Arts Center at Madison and made many more friends. She was amazed at the snow we had this past winter and didn't once “complain about the snow days”, she said! She traveled to Windsor for a day during one of the worst snow storms to attend a Christmas party.

Madison's Winterfest at the Lenawee Country Club, Luisa said, was a really fun time for her personally since she was able to dress up, get her hair done, and dance! She attended Madison's Homecoming festivities last fall. She went to Florida during spring break this year and guess what.......it rained! Luisa graduated on June 4^th with honors. Just a week ago she returned from the west coast where she visited Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and saw the Grand Canyon.

When she returns home, Luisa said that she would have 4 more months of high school and then take a test to attend college to study Engineering. Following her presentation, President Mary presented Luisa with a number of parting gifts from the club.