* Chileans Visit *

Miss Lucia & kids

January 2006

Lucia, the woman who began the whole Academic Exchange from CPH/CJA in Santiago Chile to McAuley and Cheverus in Maine, is visiting during their summer vacation to our frigid Maine winter with her kids. Lucia is second from the left (beside Sra. Terrilynn Dubreuil in yellow). We had a great lunch in the Old Port on Monday, Martin Luther King day. Some of the McAuley girls who went to Chile this last summer joined (Natalie, Leonora, Leigh, Corinne), as well as Mrs. Terry Finnerty and Ms. Jane Glass from Cheverus. We had some great food and a great time talking and sharing memories and plans for the future!

Lucia and her daughter and son will be stopping by this week at McAuley, after noon, after mid-term testing, to tour the school and meet more of the McAuley community!

Exchange programs give those involved some wonderful experiences during the exchange, but also create LIFE-LONG FRIENDSHIPS. We (Terrilynn and Terry) are looking for more and more support and ways to expand the program. The more people that are involved, the better and greater the relationships!

This is just the beginning.

2006 Chileans to McAuley

January 2006

CPH/CJA to Cheverus & McAuley HS

Chilean students to Maine

# 1 ~ PLANNING

The planning stage has started. We have our families chosen for HOSTS and have received information on the students and teachers who will be coming from Chile to stay with us. The Exchange will last from March 17, 2006 through April 18, 2006. It's a bit different from last year, so hopefully we won't have the 20 feet of snow while they're here (yes, an exaggeration). They may even get a taste of our spring, as we did theirs.

Our McAuley HOSTS are: Joellen Nitsche, Mandy Blow, Daphne Politis, Natalie Brown, Becka Delude, Eliza Connell and Caitlin Farrar.

Below are some of the Chilean students coming to experience Maine (one photo is missing, and the final photo is the teacher):

Our families here at McAuley are getting excited to meet and know these wonderful people. I'm sure these Chileans are also very excited, as well as a bit nervous, to come here and meet their new "families". Experiences like these change lives, as we have already seen in the one short year that we have been involved in this program.