Rotary District 1170 Conference

Today was Day Three of the District Conference for Rotary District 1170. As Exeter is located within District 1170, the four Ambassadorial Scholars in the district duly packed into Peter's SUV and rode over to the Winter Gardens Conference Centre for the day. Although I was a little bit tired this morning (as I stayed up far too late following the scores of football games last night), I was able to make it through my brief introduction of myself without any major problems. However, I think I was probably way too fascinated with the coin vortex in the Hall of Friendship at the conference. On the other hand, I always find those interesting!

It was very interesting to get to see a formal Rotary event; the only things I had seen thus far were club meetings and the LINK Weekend, which doesn't exactly count as a formal Rotary occasion. Most of today's portion of the conference consisted of the general session's speakers and some award presentations; however, we were able to have lunch with the Rotarians. Lunch consisted of a choice of lamb or turkey main course (no secret which I had), with several choices of vegetable (all involving cabbage in one way or another), and a choice of potato (whole fried potatoes or boiled potatoes with carrots and something green). Dessert consisted of some sort of fried cream puffs, cheesecake, or choice of fruit crumbles.

After lunch, the four of us had our picture taken on the existing portion of the wharf. The wharf is featured on the front cover of the conference program, after a fashion. The wharf recently burned, so the picture bore no resemblance whatsoever to the actual wharf in its present state. We got a nice picture with some lovely grey sky behind us, though, pretending that "this is our island in the sun" to facilitate Julia's photoshopping efforts.

After the picture, we returned to Exeter, and I set back to work on my 4,000 word paper for Exploration & Interpretation (due on Thursday), which is currently about halfway written.