I hope that you have all had a lovely week.
What a wonderful and engaging presentation from Ken on Monday night on his global project called ABCD to assist young children in Fiji who would otherwise be left out from education to get back to school. Ken was also selling his book called. "The Thribblets" and all proceeds went to the charity. Our club in one night raised $110 for the sale of the book so you must all be congratulated! This is what he had to say about it....
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The Thribletts made a highly successful guest appearance at the Rotary Club of Moorleigh Moorabin last night. In a post performance interview, blue Thriblett Kevin was delighted to report that the members of RCMM had very generously donated $110 for copies of the books in which he stars as the only numerate Thriblett. Green Thriblett Katie admitted to being a little nervous with so many people around but knew she was in good company when she spotted the Rotary wheel. Yellow Thriblett Jimmy was - as expected - missing for most of the evening and was eventually found sliding up and down the ropes holding the flags onto the poles! Red Thriblett Angela settled down for the evening on the shoulders of President Helen Blunden's cardigan and certainly spoke on behalf of all the Thribletts in thanking Helen for a wonderful evening. Author Ken was also there to carry the books.
Cheers
Ken
PS... If you haven't got a copy of the book you may not know that the colours of the Thribletts are quite significant. They represent the four principal thinking styles as measured by The Neethling Brain Instrument (NBI). The NBI is the assessment tool we have used for many years in our consulting practice. Through reading the Thriblett's books children - and their parents - get to understand the four styles and learn ho to understand and accept other people who might see the world differently.
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Big thanks to Steph for getting her employer onboard and erecting the signage about our Rotary Club outside the Kingston Centre on Warrigal Road. If you've got a chance, get down there to have a look at it. Steph has been instrumental in working with her employer to allow this to occur but more importantly, our club will be advertised in their real estate magazine that goes out to the wider area. We are going to get a lot of exposure in the surrounding suburbs - so thank you Steph and please pass on our thanks to your employers! (Maybe they can come and visit us during a business networking event??)Other than that, just a reminder that next week is a holiday and we will be back in the large room at our venue for a repeat of the presentation by Priya who will talk on "How to Engage Your Customers Using Social Media" - I have been inundated with requests to have this presentation again from Rotarians and others alike so it goes to show that it is an important topic nowadays. Even though I have not been formally taking registrations, and how this event has been advertised by word of mouth and through PETS, I expect some drop ins.
However, this night will also be special as we will have Andrew Boast give his presentation to us that he will present to Texas! So please come along, invite your partners and enjoy the evening once again.
On Monday 26 March, our club is in charge of hosting the 5 Texans from the Group Study Exchange Program and spend the whole day with them. I'm looking for others in our club who would like to share the day with them too. I have asked for a leave day so that I may participate and here's what's happening:
0830 - Host families will drop off their team members at Cheltenham Station and this is the meeting point for Rotarians too. We will all buy our Metcard tickets and travel in with the commuter crowd into Parliament Station
1000 - Behind the scenes tour and presentation of State Parliament followed by morning tea with MP Bruce Atkinson
1200 - 1400 Lunch in the vicinity of Bourke Street Mall and wander around the shops (or alternatively lunch followed by a City Circle tram ride OR a guided city wander through the city laneways
1430 : Behind the scenes tour and presentation of Melbourne City Council followed by afternoon tea with a councillor - I have been trying to get the Lord Mayor
1600 - Get on train at Flinders Street and take train back to Cheltenham station where host families will pick up their team members.
So if you would like to spend a wonderful day acting as hosts and seeing what goes on behind the scenes of our parliament as well as hobnobbing with politicians, then please let me know soon!
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On an aside, thanks to Graeme for letting us know that one of our visitors from our November Business Networking Events has joined the RC Long Island in our nearby district. He was impressed with Rotary and Graeme assisted in identifying suitable Rotary Clubs for him to visit in his area. Thanks to Graeme for being a good sport!
Similarly, one of our guest speaks in November - the business banker - who gave us such an engaging and excellent presentation is visiting RC Bayside as she is keen to join Rotary too. So from these business events, we can say that our club is introducing and promoting Rotary to others. Good work everyone!
At some stage, I will be emailing or chatting to you about the duties and roles for next Rotary year and I thank you for those people who have listed what committee jobs/projects they would like to do - or even repeat for next year. I'm quite open to the idea that we have people in the formal roles but within these there are projects that we may all share and contribute to dependent on our time and other commitments.
Hope you all have a lovely week. I'm looking forward to this weekend where I will be attending the full 8 shows of international chefs cooking for us at the Langham Hotel for the Melbourne Food and Wine Masterclasses. I'll be out of action through email or phone as I will be gorging on the most wonderful produce of Victoria lovingly cooked by world class chefs and drinking local wine. Life is too good....
Enjoy!
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