The Strode theatre had a packed audience of Rotarians from all over District 1200, and we sat down to listen to presentations including speeches from Eric Sambell, the current District Governor from Chippenham Club, followed by Peter Noble, the incoming District Governor from Dorchester Club. It was very interesting to hear about the wide range of amazing work being done by Rotarians all over the District and to learn about their plans for the coming year.
It was soon our turn and all of the team took to the stage for our presentation; Bob did a great job introducing us and the trip. Then each of us presented who we are, about our families and work life, and what we hope to achieve through the GSE. Whilst it was a little nerve wracking, it was a great experience and we’d like to thank the audience for allowing us to practice on them! We had some really positive feedback about how we did, it was certainly a success and all of the team can feel proud. I think we all learnt a lot from it that we will be able to take on to the trip with us. We will be giving presentations when we visit clubs in the host district so the more practice we can get the better.
It was nice to see some familiar faces in the audience, especially David Yates from Minehead Rotary Club who has been working extremely hard arranging our travel, dealing with paperwork and liaising with District 9210 on our behalf. We’d like to say another big ‘asante sana’ – (swahili for thank you!) - to David for all of his efforts.
After the presentations we had a short meeting to go over some of our final details and we were also very lucky to get some top packing tips from Eric Sambell. Talking about how to organise our bags, and getting good advice on what we might need to take with us suddenly made the trip seem very real indeed. Thank you again to Eric for sharing his packing wisdom with us!
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