District Board Meetings! AH!

Hey hey!

So, with the beginning of school comes the beginning of the district board meetings. This past weekend was the I-I Board Meeting and being the NCB&R Chair I had to be there... on top of giving my last Lt. Governor's report and the International Update report. At board meetings I have realized that two amin things happen:

1. The most random comment creates a HUGE change in the way things are ran or creates a new idea for a project.
2. When it gets to be 11PM and the board has been working since 8... people get to see each other's true colors and by that I mean their creativeness starts to ooze out.

So what does this mean? Pretty much, let any idea that you have out in public. It may not be good by itself, but with some group dynamics that CKI is great for, there could be something done along those lines. Also, it means that if you give a board Starbucks coffee they will tolerate people until 11PM :o).

This past weekend was also my last duty as Lt. Governor (that I would NOT give up) and that was a Tri-Divisional Fall Rally for Divisions 5,6,&7 of the I-I. This went over GREATLY. There were 42 CKI'ers in attendance with representation from all of Division 7 (my division) CKI's. From my perspective everything went great and I think people had a good time. I have talked to a few people and the #1 complaint was that they didn't know as much about CKI as the others. This is exactly what I had planned it to be, a learning experience for the newer members.

The Fall Rally was held at Illinois College, where I attend, and since we are a new club (1.5 years old) my members aren't the most knowledgable about the larger CKI projects, and by allowing older members to discuss CKI, they picked up on it too! Finally, what is a Rally without some Fellowship? This time, we had Ultimate Frisbee tournaments... well it was about to be tournament before I convinced them to do another game. FYI- if you need to put kids to sleep that you are babysitting... have them play Ultimate... they will be done in 30 mins tops!

So, the moral of the story is...host a fally rally or go to one... they are a blast!

Until next time!

JJ