Author: sroot
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Rotary International Convention 2009 – Volunteering
The afternoon of the first day was my turn to volunteer. There was no pressure to volunteer but no good reason no to. There were two perks of volunteering, the first was an orange cap with the Birmingham convention badge upon it (Believe me, it’s a perk, one American asked wher eto buy them from)…
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Rotary Internation Convention 2009 – First timer notes
Here I am, hooray! blogging from the NEC for free, at a net cafe at the Rotary Interational Convention in Birmingham. In another 15 minutes I’ll be off to be a “HOC Ambassador”, HOC means “Host Organising Committee”, and ambassador means I volunteered to help. In my case, I’m told I’ll be handing out goody…
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Goodbye Alicia
Sad news. My mother in law, Alicia, died on Tuesday morning at 4am from Cancer. She was 53. The whole family were with her, we’d all travelled to the hospital in London to be there.