Book of us

We have designed a group brochure for Brazil.  Here are the snaps.

Our newly printed brochure.

Spirit with us

It is upset to know that Glos cannot join our trip due to her family decision.  There is only two weeks towards our trip to Sao Paulo.  We all know that she has tried her best in all the preparation but just she cannot join the final stage of the trip.  May we bring her spirit with us to explore the adventurous Brazil and share with her later.

~Pauline

Five Name Cards

We have taken some many beautiful photos on 6 March.  The first usage of the photo is making of our name card.  It was a very difficult task to select one photo for the design.  After a discussion and voting, we have designed to make five versions, that fits best for our needs and ideas.  Each of us can have one version and the guests can get a full set if they talk to each of us in person.  What a brillant idea to make this work. 

Do you like our card design?

Medical Check Up

It is a requirement to submit the medical check up form and insurance form at least two months before the departure.  It is quite rush for the team to make all these arrangement, especially our group members are all packed with business trips and engagements. 

With the sponsor from PDG Dr. Jason Yeung, three of us enjoyed the services.  Dr. Yeung carried our body check with all procedure.  I guessed some are not required but with his professional cautions, he conducted all examinations. 

During the examination, Dr. Yeung suddenly talked to me with an unfamilar phrases that I did not know.  He gave me a facial expression of "unbelieviable".  I recogised that in the phrase there is one Portuguese word I heard of - "Obigado"......I knew.  Dr. Yeung was testing my language ability on Portuguese.  It is unlucky that I know nothing about Portuguese except a few words that I learned from the Internet.  It might be time for me to start my Portuguese learning.

A few weeks later, I found Joe had a book of learning Portugese.  He had the same experience when he met Dr. Yeung.  It seems to be a strong advice for the team to learn some basic Portugese for the trip.

Later in the presentation at Macau, Yolanda and me tried to catch up some phrases from PP Fatima.

~ Pauline

A Clear View on a Misty Day

I was invited to join the club meeting of my sponsor club - Rotary Club of Tsimshatsui.  It was a misty day.  When I first arrived the 39th Floor of Hotel Panaroma, the misty view of Victoria Harbour flashed into my eyes.  It gaves a miserable view of Hong Kong. 

I was paired to join the luncheon with PP Kenneth.  I was so lucky that I do not need to do any presentation on this day.  All I have to do was just having a lunch talk on face reading.  This might be some of the club culture that allow Rotary members to learn more through different talks. 

It was the first time I met the members of my sponsor club, they are all very friendly and supportive.  I am glad to be sponsored by them.

~ Pauline

Free Gifts

We have sourced for different information to enrich the content of our presentation material.  PP Kenneth sent us a message that Hong Kong Tourism Board could provide some tourist information, video of Hong Kong and some souvenior for us.  I was taking up the responsibility to collect the items.

Hong Kong Tourism Board is so resourceful.  They offered us some tourist leaflets about Hong Kong, a 2-minute video of "Hong Kong Life", 6 free high resolution photos and 200 5-style pins for us.  All free of charge.  We plan to use the pin as souveniors for an interactive session in our presentation.

Smarty Uniform

It is now in progress to prepare our trip.  The first thing we need to start with is uniform.  We plan to have one set of formal uniform (a dark blue blazer and grey pants), a series of casual wears for the team.  We are very lucky to have PP Raja to tailor-made our formal uniform and PP Peter Lam to design the casual windbreaker and T shirts.  

We spent a lot of time to decide the colours of the T shirts and windbreaker. As our Team Leader, PP Kenneth, who is a professional textile manufacturer, commented, colours give different impressions to different people, it is not easy to make the final decision. Our initial plan was going for some Chinese red tone. However, after a long discussion, we finally come up with an orange and grey windbreaker and a set of yellow and shocking pink T shirts. We believe these would be a perfect match to show us as an enthusiastic and energetic team.

Top:   Our selection of casual uniform, orange windbreaker, pink and yellow T shirts.

Centre:  (Left) PP Kenneth discussed with Joe on the details of our mission.  (Right) PP Kenneth and PP Peter discussed on the colour and fabric used for our uniform.

Bottom: (Left) Yolanda tried new blazer.  (Right)  Yolanda showed the stitched name on the inside pocket. 

~ Pauline 

Getting start

The Rotary Group Study Exchange Programme of District 3450 recruit applicants in late 2009.  Four young professional joined the programme by different reasons and they eventually joined the team through a tough selection by a panel of four Rotartians, PP Kenneth Chow (Chairman of District Rotary Foundation Committee), PP Joseph Chan (Chairman of District GSE Programme), PP Alex (Team Leader of District GSE 2009) and PP Kenneth Wong (Team Leader of District GSE 2010).  The screening interviews have been taken for two evenings on 13 and 15 Jan at the Rotary Information Centre (Hong Kong and Macau).

Four out of sixteen team members have been selected. They are Glos, Yolanda, Pauline and Joe.  The sponsor clubs of the teams are Central, Pennisula Sunrise, Tsimshatsui and New Territories respectively.

On 22 Jan, the full team has been formed and the mission to Sao Paulo, Brazil (District 4420) will soon be started.

~ by Pauline