Raoul Tillieux: Inbound Rotary Exchange Student 2012-2013

As you may already know, I'm seventeen (born on the 5th January 1995) and I'm Belgian. My parents are Belgian too, my father is from Huy (where my sponsor club is and where I go to school) and my mother is from Brussels. Because I live in the south part of Belgium, I speak French but I learned Dutch, English and Spanish at school. I live in the countryside, 20 kilometers far from the nearest city and I have a cat and a dog. I like reading, listening to music, playing games with my family and, since we came to the cabin with Sheri and Ian, Canoeing, mountain biking and fishing.

My club Sponsor is RC Huy in D1630. My father is Rotarian, as was his father and his mother's father, in RC Huy. They all were at least once president and stayed many years in the executive. My father did a court term exchange in the USA with the Rotary in the beginning of the eighties. What convinced me to do a long term exchange was seeing my older sister coming back from Australia after her exchange year. During this year we hosted two girls at home from Australia and from the USA and that also showed me how great would be a year abroad with ROTARY. My family often participated to the activities organised by the RC Huy so I know many of the Rotarian in the club.