Group Study Exchange Tour 2010

What's This About??? I'm Nerys Rudder and I've been chosen by the Rotary Club of Barbados to participate in a cultural and vocational visit to Oregon and North California. This blog is my take on the whole affair.

District 7030 (Eastern Caribbean) to District 5110 (Oregon USA)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Oh Good Lord What Have We Let Ourselves In For?






Those Medford People really didn’t know what they were letting themselves in for. Great Greg, my host delivered me to the Rogue Gallery where I was feted by Jules the executive Director. A fantastic tour of the community based nonprofit facility really opened my eyes to the possibilities of community involvement – watch out Bim I’ve got some great ideas from these people!

Off to Medford Rogue presentation – our biggest yet, and we got a standing ovation. Shout outs to President Kingsley Kelley for being so entertaining. We really left that place on a high.

Then Greg and Eric took us to Jefferson where we checked out the cemetery, had our pics taken and ended up eating ice cream in the sunny weather. I am now in love – with a tree called the Manzinita, with a smooth rich burgundy bark that must be a dream to carve.

Well this day was closed off by everyone returning for a gourmet's delight of a three course meal at my hosts Greg and Allison. We had the most fun at out table -really. Not hurt by the fact that we had the lovely Diane and her jester of a husband Kingsley. I did my Bajan culture ting by serving sweet cake, guava cheese and tamarind balls as aperatif. They all had to man up for the tamarind - but they seemed to like it!

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