A Decade Later Rotary Youth Exchange is Still Impacting my Life 

August 26, 2010, as an eager 16-year-old from Southwestern Ontario I embarked on the once in a lifetime experience of a Rotary Youth Exchange to Istanbul, Turkey. I had already come a long way, from January when I received word that I was headed to Turkey and didn’t even know where it was in the world. I arrived at the airport having never been on a plane about to travel to the other side of the world with a few key phrases of Turkish in my back pocket.