Announcements  Secretary of State Hilary Clinton Encourages Americans to be Host Families. Long Term Application Savable Version CLICK HERE     ESSEX Application Check List    ESSEX Outbound Student Rules    Country Selection List   Preliminary List New will list will be published by 10/1/10 CLICK HERE     RI Youth Exchange Newsletter - November 2009   RI Youth Exchange Newsletter - January 2010 Short Term Application Savable Version    CLICK HERE   Short-Term Country Selection List  CLICK HERE   Currently Accepting Short-Term applications thru May 1st, 2010 (to get your first choice of country best to submit early) ESSEX Winter 2011 Meeting January 14-16, 2011 Please save the date! location to be determined

Welcome to the ESSEX - Eastern States Student Exchange web site. 

An exciting adventure awaits you, as a potential Rotary exchange student or host family, you look to expand your horizons as they've never been expanded before. We invite you to explore our site, learn more about the program, and, if it's right for you, take those first steps toward one of the most amazing, memorable, adventurous years of your life.   

Yours in Rotary,

Patti Smith

Chair 08-11

Eastern States Student Exchange

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it solely on these accounts.  Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime."

                                                                                                           Mark Twain