Rotary Presentations

Ambassadorial Scholars are required to make a number of presentations to clubs around the area during the year abroad and once we return to our home country. Here are some action shots from the presentations I've made so far –

Powerpoint at a Sydney Inner West lunch meeting, with what looks like a little dancing, too!



The guest speaker sits at the head table with the club President and other Board members - it's just good luck that it looks like the flags are coming out of my head. [Turramurra Rotary Club]



My attentive audience at Turramurra Rotary Club.



Each Rotary Club around the world has their own club banner to exchange with other Rotarians when receiving guests or traveling – my presentations typically end with a banner exchange when I accept the club's banner and they accept a banner produced by my Rotary District in Michigan/Ontario for the scholars. At the East Sydney Rotary Club, we had some trouble with the hand-off.



From left to right: Mira, President of Randwick Rotary Club, myself holding the Randwick banner, and Richard, Randwick Rotary member, holding the District 6330 scholar banner.

Random Photo #02

Sydney Olympic Park

Random Photo #01

Rooftop of Eva's Backpackers
Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia

Pittwater

On grey and rainy Sunday in June, I headed up to the Pittwater area for dinner and we stopped at the beach where you can imagine how lovely it is in the summer!


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The family had several wild pets who stopped by for dinner, including the Kookaburra and the Possum - different to the North American Opossum.

Architecture on Architecture

If you happen to be in the market for a new coffee-table book, check out the newly published monograph of the architecture firm I work for in New York City!

The Amazon link is in my list of links to the right and the cover of the book is shown here.

Some of the projects the firm is especially known for: The New 42nd Street Studios (NYC), Chanel Headquarters 57th Street (NYC) and Saginaw Art Museum (Michigan).



Platt Byard Dovell White Architects
20 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010 USA
www.pbdw.com

Ode to Coffee

I think it's appropriate that there is an overwhelming presence of caffeine in this blog.

Campos – recently mentioned in the New York Times/Travel: The Remix; Coffee Down Under | Blame It On Roma – is probably the best cup of coffee in Sydney. And time will tell whether it's a good or bad thing that the place is across the street from where I live.


193 Missenden Road (off King Street)
Newtown (Sydney)

Rotary Shares

July 2007 marks the beginning of a new Rotary year under the theme "Rotary Shares." Each Rotary Club has a changeover celebration to pass the club leadership over to the new President and Board. I went to two changeover meetings, the first for Sydney Inner West and the second for Rose Bay, my host club.


Left to Right: Doug McArthur (2007-2008 Rose Bay President & my host counselor), Julie, Peter Zadelis (Rose Bay Past President 2006-2007)