A Slow Week?

The past eleven days have seen the DGN doing the following:

I was the speaker at the DG's club. The subject was TRF so it was easy for me and required very little prep time, just printed out some TRF Direct and Benefactor forms for handouts.

My wife and I attended three club fundraisers. Two were very large with multiple food and wine vendors, live music, etc. The third was rather unique in that the club charged $5 for a copy paper size box of documents to be shredded. They had a shredding truck on the premises and you could watch through a window and see your documents being destroyed. Pretty cool. We actually paid them double because it was worth that for us to clean house a bit and this little club does really nice things so the money was well spent.

At our club meeting I picked up dictionaries for an elementary school near my home. Our district gives dictionaries to all the third graders. My wife and I handle the school nearest us. This year they have seven third grade classes. We go into each classroom and show the kids the different parts of the book. There is a section on presidents, states, the constitution, etc. and, what the kids like best, is the longest word in the English language. Inside the front cover we stick a book plate from our club, signed by a club member, with a line for the student to put their name. For some kids, this is there very first book.

I attended the monthly board meeting of Rotary's Camp Florida which is getting ready for a capital campaign. The organizational/kick off meeting will be in a couple weeks.

My wife and I were invited to a VIP reception the evening before one of the fundraisers. It was very pleasant with light jazz, live, heavy hors d'oeuvres and a wine tasting. We bit on a couple live auction items but were not successful. (However at their silent auction the day of the even we took home 5 items and made a real dent in our discretionary spending account...lol.

As part of the District Training team I have two presentations to prepare, one on the tri level leadership model our district uses, the other on running a successful club. This week I completed the draft, including PowerPoint presentation for the tri-level part. I have two weeks to complete the other one. This is one of the more difficult exercises but I have been collecting best practices and will put them to good use here.

This was the week I selected Rotarian's to sit on the District Nominating Committee but I will make a separate post for that item.

The time since my last post seemed rather slow, Rotary wise, until I checked out my calendar and started to update this blog. I guess there was a lot accomplished even though it didn't seem like it. I am enjoying this journey a lot but it certainly is a very large commitment with regards to time and resources.