After the Conference
It´s Saturday night, after the District Conference, where we made our presentation.
We were supposed to start at 4:00 pm but didn´t take the stage until 45 minutes late. Luis Octavio gave his speech on the importance of the GSE program (IGE in Portuguese) followed by the GSE team that came to Indiana. They did a nice presentation with Nalini speaking first and followed by each of them. It was great to see all of them again and hear their impressions of Northern Indiana as well as see their pictures. They did a professional-quality presentation with graphics, music (Take Me Back to Indiana), their photos, and words.
We did our schtick with Justin playing his Brazilian soccer Corintianos vs Palmeiras line that got a response. We did our little speeches in Portuguese with help from others and got plenty of Parabens )Congratulations) for our efforts and comments that our Portuguese ahdimproved over the four weeks. I would be disappointed if it was still so bad!
Next year the Brazilian GSE program with interchange with the Philippines. Our US district will interchange with Argentina and Juan Pedro Torroba from that District was the official representative of the President of Rotary International. We should have a great program.
Lots of photo taking including the first time that both teams were together as Lisa missed the District 6540 conference in Muncie due to her Dad´s death. Also some tears as we knew we were saying good-bye for the last time to some friends. Nelissa and Carlos came up from Arapongas and Roz could not help but cry when they also cried. Made me cry as well.
Plans for tonight pretty much fell through from too many things being planned to almost nothing planned. We are each having dinner on our own with our hosts and with Dimas taking me (Doug) out. Aftr that, most of us are getting to gether at Fernanda Gorini´s house (Fernanda was in the group that came to the US and is hosting Kirsten in Londrina) at 10:30 pm tonight.
Tomorrow is a free day, so we will be packing and spending time with families. Roz thinks she has a solution figured out for getting her stretched canvas painting home if she can get it to Rio on Monday.
If you enjoy reading these postings, please feel free to comment!
We were supposed to start at 4:00 pm but didn´t take the stage until 45 minutes late. Luis Octavio gave his speech on the importance of the GSE program (IGE in Portuguese) followed by the GSE team that came to Indiana. They did a nice presentation with Nalini speaking first and followed by each of them. It was great to see all of them again and hear their impressions of Northern Indiana as well as see their pictures. They did a professional-quality presentation with graphics, music (Take Me Back to Indiana), their photos, and words.
We did our schtick with Justin playing his Brazilian soccer Corintianos vs Palmeiras line that got a response. We did our little speeches in Portuguese with help from others and got plenty of Parabens )Congratulations) for our efforts and comments that our Portuguese ahdimproved over the four weeks. I would be disappointed if it was still so bad!
Next year the Brazilian GSE program with interchange with the Philippines. Our US district will interchange with Argentina and Juan Pedro Torroba from that District was the official representative of the President of Rotary International. We should have a great program.
Lots of photo taking including the first time that both teams were together as Lisa missed the District 6540 conference in Muncie due to her Dad´s death. Also some tears as we knew we were saying good-bye for the last time to some friends. Nelissa and Carlos came up from Arapongas and Roz could not help but cry when they also cried. Made me cry as well.
Plans for tonight pretty much fell through from too many things being planned to almost nothing planned. We are each having dinner on our own with our hosts and with Dimas taking me (Doug) out. Aftr that, most of us are getting to gether at Fernanda Gorini´s house (Fernanda was in the group that came to the US and is hosting Kirsten in Londrina) at 10:30 pm tonight.
Tomorrow is a free day, so we will be packing and spending time with families. Roz thinks she has a solution figured out for getting her stretched canvas painting home if she can get it to Rio on Monday.
If you enjoy reading these postings, please feel free to comment!
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