For more than 75 years, thousands of American teens and host families from all over the world have spent their summers broadening their horizons through Rotary Youth Exchange.

This summer Shorecrest senior Lucia Shadduck (17) participated in the eight-week, family-to-family program spending 4 weeks in France living with a host family and returning home to Lake Forest Park with her French exchange sister, Clotilde Pocheron (16) for another 4 weeks.

After months of planning, and anticipation for the unknown, Lucia Shadduck left Seattle on June 27, 2025 bound for Amsterdam , and then transferred to a flight to Nantes, France . Lucia met her host family in Nantes and then traveled 2 hours by car to the home she would stay in for the next month.

Clotilde Pocheron’s family (parents Delp

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