Our main speaker today was an inbound Rotary Youth Exchange student from the Barcelona Spain area. Mireia is hosted by the Rotary Club of International Exchange and lives in Incline Village. Her host dad is Rick Sweeney, who is the Area 3 Governor, and a member of the District Rotary Youth Exchange Committee.
Mireia talked about some of her experiences as an exchange student, including having the opportunity to march in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Her high school cheer team was one of 30 schools chosen to march in the parade. 11 students from Mireia's high school were chosen to go to the parade. The students from all of the 30 schools marched as one large group, which required several rehearsal sessions once they arrived in New York. Reno Sunrise Rotary helped to pay for Mireia's trip to New York.
