The Danish Social Club of Victoria recently awarded a $1,500 bursary to first-year University of Victoria student Tara Zerbe.
Zerbe hails from Kelowna where she graduated from high school with a 4.0 grade average. She also received recognition for her frequent volunteering efforts in the local community, while additionally being an active participant in three Rotary clubs and her own schoolB´ÎÔª¹ÙÍøÍøÖ·™s Rotary Interact Program. Currently, her future goals lean towards biochemistry, specifically tailored to the field of genetics. Additional interests are Government and Languages. She clearly faces a broad spectrum of opportunities and decisions.
For the past year, Zerbe lived in Denmark as a Rotary International exchange student living with three host families in three different communities near the school that she attended in northern Zealand, a short distance from Copenhagen. She immersed herself in the Danish lifestyle and traditional culture and came to appreciate why Denmark is such a happy country. Zerbe also achieved a firm grasp of Danish, a notoriously unforgiving, guttural language to learn for English speakers.
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