We gave our presentation with the District 5060 team at the District Conference yesterday and everyone said they enjoyed it. This despite the fact that we were sandwiched between 2 excellent speakers. Marilyn Fitzgerald spoke before us about her trip as a GSE team leader to Bali, when she was quite new to Rotary, and how she ended up raising many 10s of thousands of pounds to build and equip a blood bank and then help school children there. A remarkable story, whihc also showed the power of Foundation and Matching grants. Steven, who works for Foundation at Evanston spoke of his start with Rotary as an Ambassadorial scholar in South Africa, whihc ended up with him working with Dr Jane Goodall and eventually Dr Desmond Tutu, another remarkable story.
The team partied with with Youth Exchange students, but made it to breakfast where we said goodbye at the hotel. Then Jim Adamson drove me with Carol, Carol and Jim to Wenatchee Airport, where we were all able to wave them off, with Delone, who very willing drove us around while we were in Moses lake.
After a very nice lunch in the Olive Gardens with Jim and Carol, Carol took me shopping to the Mall where Randy had dropped us last week or was it the week before. I was looking for Capris and discovered in the US I am a size 8, imagine that!! Then I had a visit to Costco and had lots of free food samples, before we checked out the DVDs for a film for tonight, while we wait for malcolm's plane to land. I had not heard of many of the films, but perhaps they haven't been released in the UK yet.
Hope the shopping in Seattle went well team.
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