At last Wednesday's meeting we had 13 Members. Our guest today was Ted McCormac.
Rotary Moment:
Matthew told us a very inspiring quote:
“Man has affinity for his fellowman, regardless of race, creed, or politics, and the
greater the variety, the more the zest. All friendliness needs is a sporting chance;
it will take care of itself in any company.”
— A Road I Have Travelled, THE ROTARIAN, February 1934
Announcements:
1) Hoop a Thon. Gary Chomyn urged us to send our the emails, we are seriously behind in our fund raising goals. Click Hoopathon.ca to go to our page.
2) Global TV created a TV spot promoting the Hoopathon, check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CSY9u0XehA
3) Don't forget to put our changeover dinner in your calendars, it will be on June 12th.
Guest Speakers - Our guest speakers today were from Vector International Academy (http://www.vectorinternational.ca/). Mary Kato, the founder, brought 4 of her students to practice their public speaking English skills. They had a very interesting presentation about the differences in culture and language between Japan and Canada.
Some of the points they mentioned were:
Japanese has 5 times more onomatopoeia than English. Onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
There are over 300 cat cafes in Japan. Since only 7% of buildings allow pets, Japanese people come to these cafes to pet and play with cats.
These cat cafes adopt cats from shelters.
There are not just cat cafes but also places where people can pet amphibians, goats and birds.
