Rotary Club of Glastonbury & Street

Rotary Club of Glastonbury & Street

On Monday 25th February, the team presented to the Rotary club of Glastonbury & Street at the Wessex Hotel in Street. The location familiar to all as it was where the GSE team would all meet prior to our trip to district 9210, some fond and entertaining memories of this place and of course the place where we all first met!
We were greeted by the club president Peter Davey, enjoyed a relaxed meeting with the updates of various charity and sporting events occuring in the club whilst tucking into a fantastic meal.

The team comprised Captain Bob, Alice and me and we presented to the members of the club. Personally I think that Bob is using his props and gifts improving his presentation no end, I love listening to the way that he describes how epic, adventurous, educational and useful the Group Study Exchange was. The enthusiam from Bob rolled onto Alice where she presented herself perfectly and then detailed the life and experiences of Kate, her plans for future solar projects and her progressions in her career!
I had the last slot of the presentation and was discussing the possibility of working with Rotary supported charity Bikes4Africa hoping to send bikes to one of the countries that we visited during our trip.
Watch this space for more!

Overall a good presentation, questions thought provoking and a great evening had by all!

Thank you to the Rotary Club of Glastonbury & Street.

Pictured Club President Peter Davey, Team Captain Bob Nation, Her Royal Highness The Queen (painting only), Seb Cope & Alice Jones

First presentation of 2013 - Rotary Club of Frome

On Tuesday evening we were welcomed by the Rotary Club of Frome. This was our first team presentation of 2013 and it was lovely to catch up. It was the fab four again, as Adele is now in South Africa on the next part of her research placement (hello Adele, hope Joburg is fun!)

 After a delicious meal, with pancakes for pudding (yum yum), we made our presentation to the Rotarians. It is always so fantastic to talk about our GSE trip and I find that it really brings back all the wonderful experiences we had. Our presentation has evolved over time - as Bob described it in his introduction - our story is slightly different now that we have been back for several months.

We have all been thinking about the next steps, especially with regard to possible projects from our time away. I got some very useful fundraising pointers from the Rotarians I was sitting with during dinner, it’s so nice to be able to discuss ideas with people with plenty of experience of fundraising, and I learnt a lot. Hopefully we will have some exciting updates on that front to share in the near future – watch this space!

 We’d like to thank the Rotary Club of Frome for welcoming us, listening and asking questions, we all enjoyed our evening very much.
Here are a few more photos from our visit:

Answering some questions!
 

Rotary business in action

Bob being fined by 'Boris'