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Album Name: Friends Forever Return to Albums
Album Date: Nov 1, 2009
Description: Friends Forever is a joint project of Rotary and the YMCA that each year brings 10 teens from Northern Ireland -- both Protestants and Catholics -- together for several weeks in our area and teaches them that they have more in common than they think. Our Rotary Club has both sponsored and hosted the Irish teens for many years.
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Dave Norton takes our Irish guests out to find lobster. Everyone gets a chance to handle the lobster boat. Close encounters with a crustacean of a wierd kind! Debbie knows how to throw a picnic and please a crowd of teens. Burgers, chips and brownies. The American dream.
Andy demonstrates how to eat a lobster. I guess it's not as icky as it looks! No thank you. I think I just became a vegetarian. The Interact kids and Friends Forever find much in common -- at the basketball court. Boothbay Harbor and Irish teens in action at the Y.
It's all about making friendships that can overcome cultural differences. Two weeks of getting to know one another really can overcome a lifetime of distrust. Ballymena, meet Boothbay Harbor. The Friends Forever kids join us for supper at the Clubhouse. The kids sing
Friends Forever kids are pretty young to be living in a war zone. The young people tell us about growing up amid sectarian strife. Friends Forever 2009, Ballymena in Boothbay Harbor. Friends Forever 2008, from Belfast, with longtime supporter Pat Forestell at the Clubhouse Hey, do you suppose this is what they mean when they call it a