Before I left for my Rotary exchange to Bolivia, Joanna Miller interviewed me and told me that the Prior Lake American website has blog-hosting capabilities should I feel the need to update folks back home. I´ve been in Bolivia for a little over a month now, and I´ve been dutifully keeping my own private blog (www.boliviablog.braveblog.com), but I didn´t see the need to start a Prior Lake American blog until now.

As a toddler, I made my parents suffer on our big California vacation.

We spent the bulk of our time at Disneyland going ’round and ’round on the “It’s a Small World” boat ride.

I’m sure they were thrilled.

It all started with reading the newspaper (gasp.)

I came across an announcement by the Prior Lake Rotary Club, seeking applicants for an exchange trip to Brazil.

The brief notice asked for people who lived or worked in the area to apply for a “Group Study Exchange Program” to Brazil.