Rod and Maree put on a lovely BBQ lunch on Sunday for Jules and her host families. Rod also invited Lorraine Greenwood, the District Youth Exchange person responsible for the exchange students who come from Western Europe – France, Spain and Italy. As a host parent I am finding that not only do we have a wonderful opportunity to have an exchange student live with us, we also meet and get to know the other host families who in the case of Jules, come from outside our club.I did feel for the intrepid members on footy gates on Saturday (and I had particularly strong feelings of gratitude to Dave G. for filling in for me!). Thanks for doing the job, and it is good that come rain or shine, we still get paid for the job, unlike the BBQs. On the subject of BBQs, thanks to Dan for alerting Rod to the fact that there was going to be a BBQ at Spotlight handing out free sausages on Saturday, which led to a wise decision not to do our scheduled Harvey Norman BBQ. As it was Rod tells me there were in fact two free BBQs there on Saturday! This month is membership month, so perhaps it is a good chance to bring along a guest to one of our meetings and introduce them to Rotary. In fact, this week Jules is talking to us about her home, country and first experiences of Australia, which will be great to hear, and to a newcomer will be a demonstration of a really wonderful Rotary program.