District A-15

Bruce Murray Lions International

Youth Camp

July 14th, to 24th, 2012

“ Our Youth, the Leaders of Today and

Future World Leaders.”

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Saturday July 14, 2012

Making New Friends!

Future Campers. . . . . . . .

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Bruce 3's new friend.

Sunday July 15th, 2012

Day two: Canoeing Down the Nith River

Oops . . . . .

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Canoe fashion wear. . . . good old duct tape.

Thank you New Hamburg Lions Club

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Monday, July 16th, 2012

Day three: Niagara Falls

We saw all the sights and then some.

Whirlpool Rapids

Cable Car over Whirlpool Rapids

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“OH CANADA EH!”

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012, Lions Foundation of Canada

Lions Foundation of Canada Demonstrated the Canine Vision Dog Guides, showed us where they

train the Hearing Ear and Special Skills Dogs and toured us through the kennels.

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C.N. TOWER

Resting on the Glass Floor on top of the C.N. Tower.

Elevator with a Glass Floor

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Dinner at the Mandarin

Welcome District A2 Youth Camp

Wednesday July, 18, 2012

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Brunch with all 38 youth . . . . . . . . and all those dishes . . . . . .

Creating our Mail Envelopes....... Beautiful Job

Taking a break . . . . .

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Preparing our Presentation Boards

Celebrating July Birthday's

"Thank You"

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Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Day six: St. Jacobs Market, Elmira and then to Kitchener for a Swim and Dinner.

Lunch at Crossroads. . . another fabulous buffet.

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Then Dinner with the Lions.

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Friday July 20th,

Day 7, Shopping at Limeridge Mall

Then to Rockton for dinner with the Lions.

A great welcome, wonderful dinner AND a bottle of maple syrup. Mmmmm. . . .

Saturday July 21, 2012

Day 8, In the camp rehearsing for International Night then . . .

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To the Cambridge mall to the movies and skating.

Karaoke Night (Saturday Night)

Sunday July 23rd, 2012

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International Night – Paris Fairgrounds Sponsored by the Paris Lions Club.

Paula from Argentina (A15)

Paula

Paula Massera is a 16 years old girl from Argentina. She lives in a city named Santa Rosa which is in the state of

La Pampa. She has one older sister, Mariana, she is 20 years old.

She is still in high school and she studies sciences. Her hobby is hockey, she already does it since she was 6 years

old and she plays in 3 different teams so she spends a lot of time doing this. She plays in a club and also with the

selection of the state. In the rest of her free time she likes to go out with friends and listen to music.

Her favorite food is Asado, this is something typical for Argentina with different kinds of meat in it.

Written by Britt from Belgium

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Katarina from Austria (on right)

Katharina from Austria

Katharina is 17 years old and she is from Austria. She lives in a city called Graz. Her parents are teacher and she

is an only child. Kathi has a lot of hobbies like singing , reading , traveling and of course spending time with her

friends. She has a great sense of responsibility and she is the student delegate from her school. Mini ,her dog is

also a part of her life. In the future she would like to be lawyer. Her favorite food is pasta and salad and she love

listen to charts songs.

by Victoria from Belgium.

Celine (A2) Britt & Victoria (A15) from Belgium

Britt is from Belgium where she lives in a town called <> with her parents and her two younger brothers names

Jorge and Anton. She is 18 years old and graduated from high school this summer. Her plan is to go to university

after these holidays and become a physiologist. In her free time Britt likes to go horse back riding or to the gym to

train her muscles. When she is not there she listens to some music or meets up with friends.

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Britts favorite food are spear rips with French fries. Her plans for future journeys are going to some hot countries

in South America and to Cannes in France.

Britt is a happy girl who loves to make jokes and who is always to have for a shopping trip.

Belgium

Victoria Lienard

Victoria Lienard is from Belgium. She lives in Brussels and is 17 years old. Her older sister Alexandra is 18 years

old.

In her free time she plays Tennis or Hockey. She also likes skiing, snowboarding and drawing.

Her parents are Olivier (50) and Corinna (47). He works as a Lawyer and she as an Engineer. Her favourite food

is Italian food.

She speaks 4 languages. After school she plans to be a Surgeon.

Marvin Fischer

Giovanna and Paula from Brazil (A15)

Giovanna Pignataro

Is a girl from Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is 15 years old; she has 1 older brother and 1 younger sister. She will

graduate high school the next year and she wants go to the university. She loves the animal for this she has 4

dogs, her favorite food are churrascos. She loves the soccer and her favorite soccer team is International. She likes

the music because with music she can dance, she likes go out to parties and movies with her friends, and she

wants live 6 months in Australia, because she thinks Australia is a pretty country. Her favorite season is Spring

because in this season there are flower, animals, and all in the world beautiful in this season in the year. Well this

is Giovanna Pignataro.

Paula Pignataro

Paula lives in Brazil and she is 16 years old. She lives with her brother Ricardo, her mother Elisa and her father

Flavio in a small town called Toledo. In her spare time she likes to hang out with her friends, party, eat churrasco

and of course sleep. She plays baseball but likes to watch her favorite soccer team, the International. Her family

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also has three dogs, which she loves very much. Paula finishes school next year and her plan is to study at

university after high school. Paula’s future dreams are to become a dentist, travel around the world and to be a

billionaire. One thing she can’t live without is her family.

Written by Emma from Sweden

Jaroslolav from Czech Republic (A2)

Kaisa, Petri & (A2) Essie & Maria (A15) Finland

Essi

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Essi Uusipasto is 18 years old she is from Finland. She has one sister older than her. She is at the High school

and Business school too. After High school she would like to become a lawyer.

Her hobby is skiing, she started ten years ago and she won two important champions in her country. She also likes

motorbikes, she has one and she travels with its around her country.

She really likes Canada and she wants to come to the Festival of motorbikes in this country.

Written by Paula Massera, Argentina.

Maria

Maria Ruusu is an 18 year old girl from Finland, Espoo. Her family consists of mum, dad, sister (16), brother (12)

and a dog, named Milli (6). She loves dancing hip-hop, training at the gym. During her free-time she likes

jogging, reading and meeting her friends. Maria is interested in fitness and arts, listens to hip-hop and popular

music. She also loves traveling, has already visited China, Spain, England, Denmark, Florida and Sweden.

On 16th

of August she’s starting her graduation year at school. Wish her all the best!

Written by Simona Reiciunaite from Lithuania

Merlyn & Moritz (A2) Marvin (A15) from Germany

Marvin from Germany

Marvin Fischer is a 15 year old boy from Germany. He lives in Steinfurt together with his mom, dad and his

younger brother. His brother is 13 years old and his name is Cedric. In his spare time, Marvin likes to play table

tennis, or spend some time on the computer. At this moment is Marvin still in secondary school. He's doing a

technical education and a few of the classes that he is following are physics, math and computerscience. When he

is finished with secondary school, he wants to go to university to continue studying computerscience. His goal is

to become a software developer.

Written by Melissa from the Netherlands

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Petra from Hungary (A2)

Federico & Alice (A2) Davide & Arianna (A15) Italy

Davide

Davide Gasparotto is a 17 years old boy from Italy. He lives in a city named Reggio Emilia. He has a younger

brother who is 12 years old and he has a cat too.

In his spare time he likes to do sports, play video games and listen to music. His favorite sport is rugby. He likes

pizza, pasta and Nutella like Italians usually do.

He is in his last year of high school and after that he wants to go to the university and make a lot of money in the

future.

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Written by Maria from Finland

Arianna is 18 years old and her birthday is May 29. She lives in Tivoli, near Rome in Italy. She has no siblings

and lives with her mother and father. In her spare time she swims, takes musical and modeling courses. She

danced bailey for 12 years but quit 4 years ago. She also likes traveling and has been to Spain, France, Slovakia

and Canada. This is her first Lions exchange.

She has one year left in high school and studies a science program. After high school she wants to study

International relationships.

Gustaf Glaad

Sweden

Simona from Lithuania (A15)

Simona Reiciunaite is a beautiful girl from Lithuania.

She lives in Jurbarkas wich is one of the oldiest town in her country.

She has got two older brothers,one is 32 and the other 27,but they don’t live with her in the same house.

Moreover she’s a very active girl,she practices basketball for 7 years and running for 8,she also likes playing

volleyball,thing that she always does in the camp when we have free time.

It likes if she’s always ready for the olimpic games!

She’s at the last year of high school and she’s going to study architecture at University,she likes painting and

drawing.

She loves travel,she visited Latuia,Belgium,Egypt,Germany,Canada,Denmark and Poland.

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Carlos from Mexico (A15)

Mexico

Carlos Raul Iñiguez Santillàn

His name is Carlos Raul Iñiguez Santillàn. He is 16 years old. He is 1,86m high. His eye colour is brown. He is

from Mexico and he lives in a city named Guadalajara. He goes to high school there.

His hobby is playing soccer. He has got 1 older brother and he is 21 years old. He lives with his brother, his

mother, father, aunt and grandmother. He has got 3 dogs. Their names are Cchiquis, Rinrin and Coffee.

His favourite sport is soccer, his favourite food is Tacos and his favourite season is Winter.

In the future he would like to visit Spain and Portugal. He also wants to travel to Africa and Russia.

Katja from Slovenia (A15)

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Katja Veber is coming from Slovenia. She is 17 years old and she has one brother. She had once a guinea

Pig but not anymore. At the moment she is still in gymnasium. In her time off she likes to play volleyball and

listen to Hip-Hop music. After school Katja wants to go to the university to study language. Liubliana is the

capitol of Slovenia, Katja lived there until last year. A traditional food of Slovenia is Kremsnita which is a cake

with bisquit and crème. It was really nice to meet Katja, even she was a little shy…

Alexandra Cuérel from Switzerland

Silke & Annafleur (A2) Melissa (A15) The Netherlands

Melissa from Netherlands

Melissa Hulsman is 19 years old girl from the Netherlands. She lives in a town called Waalwyk, which is 1, 30

hour away from Amsterdam. She has three younger brothers:

the oldest one is 15 years old Jeffrey, the middle one is 12 years old Ryan and the youngest one is 10 years old

Manuel. Melissa graduated this year from high school and after summer she will start a new chapter in prejudice

Law University.

She is one of those talented girls who can actually dance (not only think they could, hehheh). She started dancing

when she was 6 years old kid and one year ago, she joined to competition crew. So Melissa, why Canada?

Actually Canada was her second choice for exchange, but the main reason was detective work she made before

choosing. Pics of Canadas nature were interesting, so when Australia had no room for her, she found a new

family from here

Essi Uusipaasto

Finland

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Barbara from Poland (A2)

Andrea from Slovak Republic (A2)

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Saldivielson from Spain (A2)

Emma and Gustaf from Sweden (A15)

Emma Lilienberg(nickname M) from Sweden is a 19 years girl that lives in Alingsas (40000

peopele). She is gonna taking a job after she was graduating last year. Emma likes travel,go out

with friends and music. Her programs for the future are make some money,travel a lot.she wants

go to south America (Cuba,Brazil,Colombia,Caribbeans,Maldives,Madagascar). She has 1 dad 1

mum and 2 brothers (21,16) and no pets. Her Favourire sports to play is badminton and to watch

is handball. She is high 170 cms she has light blue eyes and her favorite season is the autumn.

Davide Gasparotto

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Janine & Camille (A2) Alex (15) Switzerland

Alexandra Cuerel is 19 years old and lives in a city called St. Gallen, in Switzerland. She has a older sister

named Stephanie and a cat named Boris. She likes handball and electronic music, and her favorite food is salad.

She graduated in Graphic design school this year. Some places she would like to visit is Tokyo and Iceland. She

is very funny and I’m glad I got to be her roommate.

Giovanna Pignataro from Brasil

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Monday July 23rd, 2012

Wonderland

Bruce 3 is attacked ........

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Gets a cuddle from Snoopy

Begging for Ice Cream

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Meet my new friend Dragoon