So Many Thank Yous

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I should like to record my special thanks to my ‘Angels’ who helped make this exchange such a memorable one for so many people. I began this exchange by describing how proud and delighted I was to be leading such an independent and intelligent group of women. I end it by saying thankyou to them all for making my job as team leader such a rewarding one. Perhaps, some day, they’ll become further involved in the world of Rotary and maybe even lead a team of their own. My very best wishes to them all.

To Garth, Jill and Chris in D1100, we all want to say thankyou for choosing us to represent the district. The very positive feedback on our last night from D3220 District Governor suggests you chose the right people in the team!

Our thanks also to all our Imthiaz, Suresh, Nadira, our host families and other Rotarians from D3220 who guided us selflessly during our month in Sri Lanka. We cannot express enough how truly grateful we are.

We all want to say thankyou to our ‘better halves’ for freely allowing us to have this unique opportunity. We all owe them many ‘brownie points’ over the next few weeks. We have all missed you and are looking forward to coming home.

To the readers of this blog I say thankyou for sticking with us. We tried to keep it updated regularly but the challenges of consistent internet access proved too much for us at times. I hope it’s given you a flavour of this unique experience – it’s not a holiday, though there are many cultural experiences, and it has been hard at times with all the travelling (and eating!) that has been required. One of the aims of this blog was to enable future teams to sense something of the diverse experiences which are part of GSE and to spread the word about this wonderful programme from Rotary Foundation. I hope we have succeeded in doing this.

If you’ve enjoyed this blog and want to become part of the Rotary family, why not contact your local club, there’s only 33000 of them around the globe!

Best wishes from John and ’The Angels’.