Rotary International Announcement

Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s president for 2022-23, a groundbreaking selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history.

Jones will officially become president-nominee on 1 October if no other candidates challenge her.

Jones says she sees Rotary’s Action Plan as a catalyst for increasing Rotary’s impact.

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Summertime in Europe is fantastic! The sun here is nowhere near as strong as it is in New Zealand, which for quite a pale person like me is great news. I would still recommend applying sunblock, but one can manage without it.

To everyone’s relief, the last five weeks of school before the summer break had been held in person. It wasn’t completely back to normal as classes were split in half to accommodate for social distancing rules. Chatting with friends I made before lockdown started and interacting with teachers are definitely much better in person, especially in a second language. We had also been given two group presentations to do, one from chemistry and the other from geography. Both teachers were very positive about the result and the grades reflected it. For the chemistry one I had somehow picked to do the part of the presentation with all the long complicated German words. It’s safe to say the class had a few laughs.

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Walking home after a heavy night at the pub Fred and Jim haven’t enough money for a cab and decide to steal a bus from the Depot.

Fred sneaks in to pinch the bus. He’s away so long Jim goes in to find out why.

“What’s taking so long?” Jim asks.

“Can’t find a No.9 bus” Fred says.

“You great fool,” says Jim, “There’s a No.14. We’ll take that and walk home from the roundabout”.

MOOSE HUNTING

Two Irish hunters got a pilot to fly them to Canada to hunt moose.

They managed to bag 6 moose.

As they were loading the plane to return, the pilot said that the plane could only take 4 moose.

The two lads objected strongly. “Last year we shot 6. The pilot let us take them all and he had the

same plane as yours.”

Reluctantly the pilot gave in and all 6 were loaded.

However, even on full power, the little plane couldn’t handle the load and the plane went down.

Somehow, surrounded by the moose bodies, Paddy and Mick survived the crash.

After climbing out of the wreckage Paddy asked Mick, “Any idea where we are?’.Mick replied, “I think we’re pretty close to where we crashed last year.”