The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Colin and Kate Daines invited Johnathan (the other Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar) and I and our host/sponsor families to their house to meet the current and future, future Rotary District Governors for Essex. I asked them if I could call them each Mr. District Governor, but they said no. We had such a fun time talking about living and traveling as members of three very different English-speaking cultures. Johnathan is from Canada, and apparently Canada is like England in that donuts are not a breakfast food here. They're for dessert. No wonder I haven't seen a donut shop! I really wanted a donut the other day, too. The Rotarians all knew eachother, and it was hilarious to listen to them teasing eachother and remembering back to past scholars. They have wit enough between them for the whole island!
At the end of the evening, Colin brought out his Dallas Cowboys hat so that I'd feel more at home, and Mike Poole modeled it with a Heisman pose. It was the least English thing I've seen in England to date.
But thankfully Mike agreed to a photo, so there is evidence:
Cheers!
