I miss you so much... District 3500
Contributed by President Toh Harnniann
Imagine this: two groups of total strangers, they never met, they knew little about each others and they live more than 3000 kilometer apart but when they met, they embraced each others like long lost friends: all in the name and spirit of ROTARACT!
How unbelievable was that?!
When our club was chartered last year, I saw Rotaract as going for fellowship every 2 weeks. Later when we visited RAC Pudu, to me Rotaract equals to meeting new friends from another club. When we took part in the District Rotaract Assembly last July, Rotaract equals to mingling with 16 rotaract clubs in the district. But after visiting District 3500 Taiwan, my perception about Rotaract had been greatly widened. Rotaract now is about meeting rotaractors around the globe!
Rotaractors of District 3500 are simply awesome! They have performed their role as host so perfectly well that I doubt anyone would find any blemish. Every minute detail had been meticulously looked into. They are so amazingly passionate, caring and friendly. We were like babies who need not worry about a thing except concentrating on sightseeing, playing and eating.
During our presence in Taiwan, these Rotaractors of District 3500 painstakingly took turn to accompany and entertain us. They do not have long annual leaves like Malaysia. They only have 7 days annual leave and some took 5 days leave just to keep us companied and make sure we are safe and happy. Each day our schedule dragged into the wee hours, and these rotaractors had only few hours to sleep despite having to work the next day.
Imagine this: two groups of total strangers, they never met, they knew little about each others and they live more than 3000 kilometer apart but when they met, they embraced each others like long lost friends: all in the name and spirit of ROTARACT!
How unbelievable was that?!
When our club was chartered last year, I saw Rotaract as going for fellowship every 2 weeks. Later when we visited RAC Pudu, to me Rotaract equals to meeting new friends from another club. When we took part in the District Rotaract Assembly last July, Rotaract equals to mingling with 16 rotaract clubs in the district. But after visiting District 3500 Taiwan, my perception about Rotaract had been greatly widened. Rotaract now is about meeting rotaractors around the globe!Rotaractors of District 3500 are simply awesome! They have performed their role as host so perfectly well that I doubt anyone would find any blemish. Every minute detail had been meticulously looked into. They are so amazingly passionate, caring and friendly. We were like babies who need not worry about a thing except concentrating on sightseeing, playing and eating.
During our presence in Taiwan, these Rotaractors of District 3500 painstakingly took turn to accompany and entertain us. They do not have long annual leaves like Malaysia. They only have 7 days annual leave and some took 5 days leave just to keep us companied and make sure we are safe and happy. Each day our schedule dragged into the wee hours, and these rotaractors had only few hours to sleep despite having to work the next day.
Like any great vacation, time flies like arrows. On 30th March 2006, it was time to say good bye. Though rationally I knew I had to hop into the airplane and go home, I found myself walking extremely slow towards the boarding gate, attempting to savor those very last moments.
It is unbearably cruel that now I am writing this blog in Malaysia while missing my friends badly in Taiwan. When can we meet again? Have faith mate.
posted by harnniann at 12:51 pm
5 Comments:
To further add to this, we received a call when we were in KLIA, a warmest call from taiwan.
As what PDRR David has told me they host you like no body's business, which i totally agree.
harley
yeah...
They are so good to us...
yeah..they are so good to us...
ET, i know i know, u said that twice...
lloyd
Welcome to Taiwan, We miss you,too.
It's our pleasure to host my friends.
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