May 4-6 - We arrived late evening and my host was the first rueda feminina I encountered - these are some sort of ladies auxilliary, probably like our Rotary Anns of ancient times...
Teresa, their past president, received me with two others of her group at her old colonial-style home. We had many interesting discussions about their separate and joint projects with the club - like most of us they focus on raising funds for projects affecting children´s health and well-being.
Like all other Rotarians we encountered, they wanted to know all about Hillary and Obama - nobody seems to know or care about the other presidential candidate...
The next morning we toured Empresa La Plata, a large lumber plantation owned by a Chilean firm. Arturo, Lisa's host, was our guide as the operations manager for the facility.
A pleasant morning of tramping through pine woods and mud and splendid sunshine was followed another tasty asado at Javier and Virginia's spectacular home on the Paraguay River. Javier is this small club's (16 Rotarians) competent secretary and past president, and was a wealth of information about how clubs function here.
Because the team has no entry visas for Brazil, just across the river, we declined the opportunity to attend and present at a meeting of the Sao Borgas club that evening. But five members from this club (including the president, president-elect and a past governor) joined us the following evening for our team presentation to the Rotary Club of Santo Tome.
The ruedas femininas hosted us for another asado at the colonial home of Marta, their current president, followed by a tour of her family land with extensive grazing pastures and rice plantation.
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