Meeting the Omaha Rotary Club

Presenting to the Downtown Omaha Rotary Club was memorable because...

They are Jill's GSE Sponsoring Club...THANK YOU, Omaha Rotary!

Their speaker, Joe Moglia, Chairman of TD Ameritrade, was energetic and informative in his explanation of the economic crisis.

They are a large club that meets at the classy Field Club.

Their President, John Mock, sported very fun hair.
Thanks also to Katie Thompson of Club #14 for running our presentation slides and to Lehua Stonebraker for joining us as a guest. Xie xie, Omaha Rotary!

Happy Birthday, Jeff! 生日快乐

Jeff and Scott Ritter (Jeff's business partner and good friend) threw a super birthday bash at Grata's in Lincoln. Among the many people there was Bret Beer (pictured below) - Bret & the Lincoln Saltdogs donated the awesome baseballs for our GSE team to give as gifts in Taiwan.

Happy Birthday, Jeff!

Signing baseballs for our Taiwan hosts

Robert Rapp is the fabulous District 5650 GSE Outbound Coordinator and a former GSE Team Leader to Venezuela. Robert hosted the team in his beautiful Omaha house - serving up homemade lasagna and grape juice from his family's vineyards. The team learned more Mandarin from Jeremy and even some Taiwanese (another language).Later, we had fun with sharpies, autographing baseballs. We hope our Taiwanese hosts enjoy the baseballs as gifts, especially since we learned that baseball is the #1 sport in Taiwan.

Presenting at Rotary #14 (Downtown Lincoln)

From the rotary14.org website: "Our Club Assembly on February 24 was....a send off for our Group Study Exchange (GSE) participants who are headed for Taiwan in April. There are four young professionals who will be joined by Rotary Club #14 member Mailani Veney on a trip to Taiwan. The members of the Team, Jill Orton, Jeff Barclay, Meagan Morris, and Chris Gorman, represent businesses in Omaha and Lincoln. They will visit a number of Rotary clubs while they’re in the country as well as learn more about how business operates there."
Presenting to Club #14 - a very large Rotary club - was a great dress rehearsal for all the presentations we will give in Taiwan. Each of the team spoke a little Mandarin and were showered with good wishes and advice from the many Rotarians who have been to Taiwan.Xie xie (thanks) to Club #14 for sponsoring Jeff Barclay and Chris Gorman for GSE!

Our weekly Mandarin lessons are FUN!