District Conference

Boy - I have never packed in so much into two days. Try to keep up with me folks - we arrived in from Roseburg, we had lunch, we met loads of our past host families. Shout outs to;

Greta
Diane
Prudence
Kingsley
Diana
Carol
Eric
Sam
Lisa
Rick
Emily
Jim
Dell
Nettie
Cliff
Bill

and all the others I have forgotten to mention.

We then raced off to do a final run through of our presentation, we presented, rocked the crowd (yes we had loads of people telling us that it was the best GSE presentation EVER!), went to a fancy reception, butt up on the Oregonian GSE team, hi girls!, had dinner, then we ended up a the Rockin Rodeo across the road from the hotel. I will not say that the incoming president of a certain club was first in the dancing cage - no Carol I wont say that. Nor will i say that I was introduced to Crown and coke... nope Justin. Let's just say that we didn't get in till after 1am and that was just the first day!







Next day we missed breakfast - bleh. I mean why cant we still have breakfast at 11am even though breakfast ended at 9? We had a fantastic question and answer breakout session with the Brazilian and Oregonian GSE teams - full house and more! Good thing there wasn't a fire marshall in the house.

Had lunch - went to the Saturday market in Eugene, went shopping with the fabulous Shelly Kane, Justin and Lisa, had deserts, came home in just enough time to get ready for the formal dinner, tricked Chandra and Justin (GSE co-chairs) into thinking Melissa was sick, surprised them with their thank you gifts, ran off to change, went to a comped Damien Marley and Nas concert (with backstage passes) with the part of the Brazilian team, host families, GSE co-chair and Oregonian team (All hail Shelly Kane and her smooth moves and Sky High the road manager), went to a bar, had to go back to the hotel for ID (I'm 35 people!), ate a street hot dog, went to another bar, came back to the hotel, witnessed 16 police cars block the streets to break up a fight (with flashing lights and everything!), said goodbye to Justin and Shelly :-(, and went to sleep at 3am.











Had to be up and out of hotel at 11am to go back to Medford, our final resting place.

During all of this we also actually attended all the sessions we were supposed to and thoroughly enjoyed the Conference itself.

Phew.

Am I getting too old for this kind of thing? Nah - I'll just sleep when I'm dead.

Apologies for quality of pictures - I had to farm some off of the others as I suddenly developed camera shyness :-)