Jumping the First Hurdle

Surprised and delighted to receive and invitation to attend a 40 minute interview from Garth Raymer (District 1100 GSE Coordinator). Good. This will include a 10 minute Powerpoint presentation as if to an audience of Rotarians in Sri Lanka entitled 'District 1100 and the GSE Team'. Spoke with fellow Rotarians from Thornbury Club - Allan's led a previous District 1100 GSE team to India in 2005; Michael's had a lot to do with travel in Nepal and suggested getting hold of the book 'Culture Shock - Sri Lanka'. (Googled it and found a cheap copy from Amazon. It arrived within a few days and was a good recommendation. Thanks Michael.) Set about structuring the presentation and after several edits finalised with the following slide headings:

1) Title Page
2) I Bring Greetings From ...
3) Presentation Overview
4) Where Is District 1100?
5) Local Features and Highlights:

• Stepping Back In Time
• Boats and Bridges
• Trains, Planes and Aero-Engines
• Art, Theatre and Music
• Further and Higher Education

6) Local Sports

• A Day At The Races
• Leather On Willow
• A Gentleman's Game Played By Hooligans
• A Hooligan's Game Played By Gentlemen
• Something Completely Different

7) District 1100 Top Ten Activities

• Focus On The Crocus
• Shelterbox
• Diabetic Footcare Project (Ledbury RC)
• Nepal School (Pehar Trust)
• District 1100 GSE Fundraising relief for 2004 Tsunami
• Support for Malawi Nursery (Thornbury RC)
• RYLA
• Kids Out
• Youth Competitions

8) Meet the GSE Team
9) A Cultural and Vocational Exchange for World Peace and Understanding
10) Our Blog ... Please Comment
11) Keeping In Touch

I'm pretty satisfied with the content I've chosen, but an actual final presentation would, of course, need input from all team members and Rotarians with previous experience to share. Copied presentation onto memory stick and burned it to DVD-Rom as a back-up. Fingers crossed that I've prepared enough.