November 30th meeting at Shelley's

We had a productive day in Shelley's dining room, sorting out details on our presentation, printed materials and clothing items.  After a great lunch (Thanks Shelley!!) we wrapped up our planning session with a road trip to Mark's Work Warehouse and the always memorable Stone Road Mall in our quest for gifts for our hosts and suitable clothing items.

Our planning meeting

The team gathered at beautiful Mounstberg Conservation park when Dolf is the Manager. We got lots of work done and made some important decisions on clothing, business cards and brochures. We also started to map out our Power point presetation. Shelley showed us some of her pictures from her 2006 trip to Australia. The team were blown away by the beauty and the coastline. We can't wait for this amazing adventure to begin

(Carolyn, Jenna, Shelley and Dolf working hard)




It was not all work, and Dolf gave us a behind the scenes tour of the facility. Here is Dolf with one of the Owls.



























Dolf also encountered some other Canadian wildlife!

Saying good-bye to the Australian GSE team

31 October 2008

Shelley, Carolyn and Chris travelled to Waterloo to attend the farewell of the Australian GSE team. This was held at the impressive home of Michael and Mary Klien. Michael is past President of the Rotary Club of Kitchener-Conestoga. It was a night of laughter and tears as we all said our farewells. We got a small glimpse of what we will be in for and clearly soem life long friend ships have been formed in the past 4 weeks. We are all looking forward to seeing this amazing team in Australia in February 2009.