Guest speakers
Blair, Melissa and Anna gave an overview of their RYLA (2018) experience at Lake Tuapiro. About 30 young people aged 19-27 attended and were a mix of all occupations and walks of life. There was an even split of workshops and outdoor activities, which included team building exercises such as raft building and West Coast Wind Dancing!
A highlight was visiting Waitomo Caves for a day and caving, orienteering, rafting and seeing the glow worms. A memorable exercise was discovering participants’ personality types through DISC profiling into Owls, Eagles, Peacocks and Doves. A particularly good learning opportunity arose through resolving the issues between the two Eagles and two Doves in the same group of four.
They all came away with valuable insights about themselves and others, and how to work within groups for a common outcome. Notable models used were ‘Above the line, below the line’, and Jahari’s Window. Anna said, “It was valuable to learn what others know about you, but you don’t know about yourself.”
All three participants thought it was an excellent experience and expressed their gratitude to Sunrise Rotary.
Sergeant-at-arms
Michele immediately took charge and organised a fashion parade of shorts wearers (see above). Rather than rewarding their charitable spirit she proceeded to fine them – Andy (his parents bought his shorts for him to grow into), David (his ghostly white shaved legs reminiscent of a hairless albino chihuahua, and Barry (those aren’t actually shorts, but bell bottoms) et al.
Ron then got fined for not having a work-life balance in taking on as Chair of the Chamber of Commerce and was followed by Max for pointing out what Tauranga doesn’t have in the way of amenities. Her husband Simon got done for not knowing the difference between a foot towel and a bathmat (duh), and then Greg for paying for his own interpreter and travelling economy class on an official trip to China.
Best of all she fined Pat for asking his wife for Nookie the next day, in front of a guest at his hotel.
