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Saturday, June 10, 2006
Due to heavy down pour, we started the talk about 6pm with a handful of members. After a while, more members & guests started arriving. Amanda started by introducing the Group Study Exchange (GSE) program from the Rotary Foundation. GSE is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity to exchange visits between paired areas in different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's institutions and ways of life, observe their own vocations as practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas....enough of promoting GSE! Amanda started her journey visiting various companies from Computer Associates, Australian Institute of Management to a funeral parlour,"Horizontal Underground Accommodation" (the only place she let her camera in peace too). It was magnificent to be facing with such huge gigantic machinery from the major industries such as production of lobster and wine. We've also learnt that the lobsters weren't dead when they were being packed and shipped across for the export market ... but sort of electrocuted. She was also very lucky that she had the opportunity to not only visit but experience the proceedings in Parliament House and turned the Police Station upside down (hehehe!).
She also shared with us the Rotary movement in Western Australia. One successful noble project (worth mentioning) is manufacturing the wheel chairs. I can't remember the numbers but the Rotary Club managed to produce a tremendous numbers to be shipped out to the poor. In such short period, she was hosted by 14 Aus families, imagine that? Each one of them holds a different personal experience ... one host family even called her one day after she moved out to the other host family, missing her loudness in the home.
a token of appreciation to Amanda
