Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Speeches!

We had a meeting here at my house this past Monday. I served Bratwurst boiled in dark beer, warm German potato salad, sauerkraut, beets, and roasted brussels sprouts. And of course, the ever popular apple strudel for dessert! The German beer and Gerolsteiner water topped off dinner very nicely!

Our team had a chance to talk about our presentations and we feel much better! We have a pretty good plan and will begin writing our own 5 minute presentations. We will have a trial run on March 19 and see how we all do speaking in front of each other. Roger and Paul will do their speeches in German, but us girls have chosen to do ours in English.

More updates!

Uniforms--done! Team photo next!

Presentations--a really good start is under way. We will have a trial run of what we have done on March 19. I have attended one Toastmasters meeting and I am trying another one and will make a decision next week on which club I will attend. The Toastmasters meeting on Tuesday was very interesting...there is a lot to learn from these meetings!

Gifts--No update on the cable car prints, but Paul's CD's are awesome! Great music choices!

Language Lessons--So far so good! This past weekend I spent NO time studying so I know what I will be doing this coming weekend!! I am on Level 1, Unit 5, Lesson 6. (Level 1 has 8 Units; each with 11-12 Lessons).

Banners/pins--Banners are done! and Roger is looking into some "friendship flag" pins with both American and German flags. We can hand these out to people as we meet them.

Random California trivia--very close to being done! We are going to add in some facts about each of our sponsoring Rotary Clubs.

Badges and business cards--Roger is ordering our name badges and Jeniece is working on a design for our group business cards.

That's all for now...I am getting more and more excited every day!

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