Day 7 Vocationals and Presentations

Today was our first day of vocationals and each person had a great time. In fact one of the comments was that if all the vocationals was as good as this, then they are going to be estatic.

Today I went with Jill and Suzanne to meet with Dr Billie Blair, CEO Leading and Learning Inc. She is a change management consultant and also and Org Psych. She was really interesting and we spoke about a number of different change issues and actions and options for various issues. We also got to have coffee at Starbucks. Yah for coffee....

After a beautiful lunch with Dave Johnson, Al and Patsy and Billie the three of us split up and went our separate ways, Jill to the Library, Suzanne to the hospital and myself to the City of Temecula. I met a fantastic bunch of people and was looked after really really well.

I spoke to the Community Services team about what they did which included waste management, culture, parks and recreation including the maintenance as well as libraries and also comm services. Herman Parker (an ex pro gridiron player) is the Director Community Services then took me to see the Childrens Museum, Community Theatre and then a range of the fantastic parks where they multi-use them. Predominantly baseball is overlaid with turf for soccer and gridion, a great use of resources..... It was nice to see that many of the issues were the same as what we have at home.

The evening was our first presentation with 7 clubs represented and about 180 people at dinner. It was an unbelieveable way to start. The crowd were magnificient and it meant that we changed what we were doing a bit. We included the real thing video and then we sang Waltzing Matilda at the end of the presentation. We got host families etc up the front to help us sing as well.

If all the presentations are as fun as that we are going to have a great time. Its going to be hard to keep us under time though, which might be a challenge.

They even served tim tams for dessert to make us feel at home......

A great night was had by all......