Rotary

Rotary meetings: On February 16th, we had Dr. David Chalack, CEO and President of the Calgary Stampede Board at our meeting and he talked a little about Stampede Park and its future amongst other locations. The week afterwards, we had the mayor of Calgary, David Bronconnier, at our meeting. He talked about what he did to move Calgary forwards and announced that he won't go on with his job after fall. We had the media and the meetings was so formal. On March 2nd, Michael Brown talked to us about the Bow and its construction. It will be the highest building in Calgary Downtown with 58 stories and is used for office space. Sharon Carry was scheduled for the week after and gave us an update on Bow Valley College. On March 16th, Thomas d'Aquino told us his opinion about G-20 and G-8. And then was my big day -> my presentation on Tuesday, March 23rd. a Rotarian interviewed me and it made it a lot easier for me to talk along my slide show. Unfortunately, we ran out of time and I had to rush through the end and I didn't have time for questions in the end. (I gave one of the newspapers to mum.) I was glad that some of the current and former exchange students came to support me and my host mum brought Maria as well! I got a certificate "a donation has been made in your name to CAWST (Center for affordable water and sanitation technology)" that I can hang up in my room! And not that one presentation is enough; I helped Marco doing his presentation after my meeting. The next week carried on with a speech by Robert Laboucane about Aboriginal People and Effective Communication and then about Oil and Natural Gas in Northamerica. Last week, I wasn't there because I had my Science Final and a field trip with my PE class.
Our club won't have an outbound for next year because she wants to finish her school without a break. I also went to the Integrety Awards organized by all Rotary clubs in Calgary togehter with Julia, Vishesh and one of the outbounds. We had a weekend with Rebounds, Outbounds and Inbounds in Red Deer, just two hours north of Calgary and had a lot of fun. We had some orientations and on Saturdaymorning, we went bowling. We got information about our upcoming canoe trip in June and in the evening, we had a dinner with the RC of Red Deer and had to prepare skits about different situations that happen during the exchange: first day at school, first meeting with the host family, weather, food, etc. After all the Rotarians left, we had a dance. On Sunday, we heard from the Rotex students about what they took from their exchange and it was very emotional! We did our Yearbook with the Inbounds and that was a lot of fun, too (we also did pages for Anne, John and Mai). The had of the committe told us that Mai (Japan) was sent home as well. It was the first time that we got to meet our Russian boy who came in November.
I went to Julia's meeting once as well as to Marco's presentation. I wrote my last report for District1800 - the one in Germany. Wait!!!! Already the last one??! That went by so fast. Wasn't the last one just 2 weeks ago? It is incredible how fast the time goes by...and just 3.5 months left :(
SEE you soon.....................................[that doesn't sound good]