Final Farewells

Bright and early on Thursday morning 9th April the team (minus Nikki, still in Broome) made the first full run of their presentations to the Rotary Club of Heirrisson and several notable guest on the GSE Committee, sponsoring clubs and District Governor Sue Rowell.

Aside from our presentation running a little long (ok, we have to cut everything in half) it was well received and showed all our preparation had been worth while.

We were presented with our GSE Alumini Pins by Ken Collins and Sue Rowell, to wear with pride and privilege, now being part of a the select group.

8 more sleeps!! (ok not a lot of sleeping happening because we are all so excited)

Last minute preparations

Final touches are being made to complete our planning. A farewell meeting for the Team is to be conducted at the Rotary Club of Heirisson breakfast meeting on Thursday 09 April 2009 @ 0700hrs. Unfortunately Nikki will be unable to attend as she is currently working in Broome. The remainder of the Team will be there and will have an opportunity to practice our presentation prior to departure. Excitement in the camp is building with suitcases being packed. I hope the Rotarians in Texas are prepared for the visit of 6 women from Western Australia.

Ready, Set Go

The Team had their final informal team meeting on Tuesday 24th of March to hand out uniforms and check all our goodies were ready to go.

District Govenor Sue Rowell and Heirisson Club President/GSE Committe Chair, Allan Mclean also dropped in to give us some last minute tips and share some of our excitement.

All the pressies are bought and packed, the uniforms embroided and tried on, the presentations tweaked and the itinerary distributed... We are ready, set, go!!!!

Heirisson Club Presentations

Tilai and Nina kicked off the first of the Teams club presentations on Thursday 26th of Feb at a breakfast with the Heirisson Rotary Club

Long Time, No Blog

Hello All,

Yes it's been a while since we have updated this blog....and A LOT HAS HAPPENED. We are less than 2 months until our departure and getting more excited as each day passes.

I am happy to report that most things are organised...host presents are ordered and have arrived...our uniforms are all selected, we have had our group photos' and I must say we look pretty good....our presentations are being fined tuned with Tilai and Nina presenting to the Herrison club this morning.

Our flights are also booked, we are heading to San Fransisco for the weekend before arriving in Dallas on Monday 20th April for a fun, jam packed 5 weeks...


We spent the weekend of 21st and 22nd February in Lancelin, getting to know each other even better and putting some finishing touches to our presentations.


Now that we are so close to departure, a lot more activity is planned.....stay tuned.

Sunset at Lancelin

Relaxing on the balcony

6 to Texas

Great news today. Tilai is now officially a part of the team, with Texas and Western Australia confirming that 6 members can travel on the exchange....

WELCOME (OFFICIALLY) ABOARD.

The Beginning

Grace Ley - Team Leader

Renee Wirth

Nikki Gardner

Grace Carroll

Nina Morrow

Tilai Morrissey

First team meeting - how exciting!

Suddenly we realise just how much planning we've got to do but no one is complaining!

Uniforms, gifts, information packs, presentations, lots of conversation and side-tracking onto other conversations ..... suddenly 5 hours zipped by and we're well on our way to our new adventure.