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okay here's how today's rotary meeting went....

in the beginning everybody starts to trickle in sometime between 6 and 6.30 so usually i have a chat to a few people and catch up with them. today i caught p with my first host dad and i really like him. then slowly everyone grabs a seat only to stand up again to say/sing rotary grace and then there's always bread rolls and butter. then some of the board members report on going things like upcoming fund raisers or the treasurer says whats been happening to the money and all that....
then the meal comes in which is usually a choice of fish or chicken with veggies and bacon and other things. during the meal there's always discussions about the ongoings in the footy comp and right now there are two main things that everyone talks about. firstly and thats what really everyone is talking about is a scandal involving footy players that had a group sex scandal back in 2001. now the team and the league are losing sponsors and also their reputation. it all reminds me of a certain FC Thun in switzerland....also last years champion of the league, manly, isnt going to go through to the playoffs so thats a big disappointment for man(l)y (please understand the genius in this word play!!i just thought of that myself!!oh yeah!!). then the desserts are served. today i had pavelova.
after the meal there's the fine session which is always funny. one guy in our club, trevor, makes a list of things that he can get people for so that they have to pay one or two dollars. today people got fined for being early and late and heaps of other things... and then after trevor is finished fining everyone there is the possibility for cross fines where individuals can fine individuals... i got fined today with the following by a guy called david:
he said to me :"David you do know that there are some places where you can cut your hair in tuncurry?" yeah yeah i got the message but responded that he was probably just jealous that mine is still growing the way it is :-)
after the fine session we had a guest speaker today that is a teacher at my college and is also the principal of the junior campus. he is going to india fairly soon to work there at a school and be the principal there. i think its a great thing of him and his wife to do. a great challenge thats for sure.
after the talk everyone sings the australian anthem and then some stick around adn others buzz off straight away.
i had a talk to david nix from my club and he told me that the fourth family that had been planned so far is just moving out of town so i won't be staying with them. he also told me that he has someone else that is 99% sure and that he will tell me tomorrow or so.
so thats the procedure of a rotary meeting of course not very detailed but it gives you a rough idea. i will blog again later on in the week to tell you how my meeting with the optometrist went that i have tomorrow morning. and also i am now getting rather angry with the people from the surf shop because i have called them twice and been in they're shop twice and still they have always only told me that someone will contact me concerning a surf lesson that i have a voucher for.