Emily with club president Silvio
May 12 - This is our host club for the week, with past team leader Eduardo as our coordinator. He and his wife Cielo hosted us upon arrival at their beautiful home with a small reception (great empanadas and nice wine), with many club members in attendance.
It is becoming very evident how much logistic effort is required to haul us and our gynormous suitcases around from place to place, but they all welcome us warmly and seem to take it all in stride.
The club's regular meeting was preceded by an opportunity to observe tango classes open to the public at their meeting place and we had a chance to try it out....
This club has 29 members and also features an MC who presides over the program. Once again our presentations were well received, followed by a number of questions to the team. This generated a discussion about the differences between our university systems, ably discussed and explained by Kelly.
At the end of the program the MC, a founding member of the club, commented pointedly that this is the first time in many years that they have actually enjoyed receiving a GSE team, because this time there was no real language barrier and every member of the club and host family was able to become a real part of the exchange. We heard similar comments from other Rotarians during the past two weeks.
The club took me to visit one of their community service projects - a literacy project for senioir citizens (photo).
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