She is a 15 year old Rotary exchange student who will be staying in Boorowa for the next 12 months.

While she is here she will living with four host families from Rotary. Stephen and Sharon Meere are the first host family and she is now busy settling in with them for the next three months or so.

In Germany she has just completed year 10 of high school and in Boorowa she has joined the year 11 class.

She is most interested in sport and music and plays basketball and the violin.

She is already in the Boorowa basketball competition and she is taking violin lessons to continue her music education.

You can tell that her family is musical because her father plays trombone, her mother plays violin and they have a black cat called “Piano”.

Centa lives in the city of Cologne, and apart from her very early years when the family lived in rural Netherlands, she is basically a city girl.

Cologne is Germany’s oldest city with a population of 961,000.

We are going to change her outlook as she adapts to rural living in Boorowa.

She has three siblings, an older sister and a younger brother and sister.

Her parents by profession are architects.

English is one of the languages Centa has studied as well as French, Latin and funnily enough German.

She understands English well as long as we don’t speak too fast.

She is looking forward to having a good time in our community and expects to get a good insight into Australia and its culture.

She would like to visit Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef.

Right now she is 16,000 kilometres and a world away from her home and family and is a little homesick.

Australians and Boorowa, please make her welcome so she feels at home with us.

When asked what her feelings were about Boorowa Centa commented “It is a very small town, compared to cologne and she loves the way everyone is friendly and helpful and always asking her who she is”