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We will be holding a bake sale at the Takapuna Flea Market on Sunday February 21st (open from early to noon). Please come along and buy some treats — we’ve got some good bakers in the club! All proceeds will go towards our Relay for Life fundraising target of $1000. If you can’t make it, but still would like to donate, this is our online donation page.
Hey there! Well, since Claire nominated me for this in July 2009 and its now 2010, I thought I’d get started! I’m Nathan and I’m still at Auckland University, studying for my final year of a BSc in Physiology and Psychology. Outside of uni, I’m really into Jonghap Musul (a Korean Martial Arts) and I’m just coming up to sitting/performing my 1st Dan black belt exam. I’m also a keen photographer. I enjoy Rotaract because it always has new personal and group challenges and all the new (and old!) faces coming and going. It is also a way for me to give something back to my community, as after all, they support me (and most other uni students),whilst having fun and learning new skills. and the next “Introducing . . ” post will be with Cam! Hopefully he’ll beat my record of 7 Months to write an article
Please, please support us in Relay for Life for 2010! This takes place over the weekend of the 27-28th February at the Millennium Institute in Auckland. We’ve taken part in this event every year for the past four years, for which all proceeds go towards the local Cancer Society chapter. You can donate online here, or alternatively feel free to contact us if you are able to support us in other ways. We have other fundraising ideas in the pipeline; stay tuned! Wow, we’ve been pretty slack in updating this haven’t we? More detailed posts to come! Just a quick link to a new e-book from the Global Volunteer Network (GVN), called Ripples of Difference, just in time for International Volunteer Day (December 5th). We recently took part in GVN’s Eat So They Can event, which was a great success, raising $315 for GVN’s projects. You can see photos from the night here! Here are the past few Rotaract LIVE broadcasts… From the last meeting, where we had an audiologist and a speech therapist from the Hearing House visit us to promote the great work they do at the Hearing House, as well as the upcoming Loud Shirt Day: At the meeting before that we threw around some fantastic ideas for community and international service projects: And a quick recap of what we learnt from Dr Bartle, sleep therapist: We will be helping out with the Motutapu Restoration Trust with their regular tree-planting volunteer days on Sunday 16th August. Want to join us? Email Teresa now! Some more details:
You’ll need to bring the following:
Some photos from past plantings…  Will  Charlotte
Claire Bear here! Writing this in Dundedin where I’m visiting friends for re-O week. I’m no longer a student, I finished my BSc majoring in Psychology at the end of last year, but a lot of my friends still are! I currently work for a small accounting firm on the North Shore, with a choice bunch of people! Next month I start training for my Pilates instructors which is so exciting! I love being active, anything outdoors and hanging out with both old and new friends! I love Rotaract because I’ve met a whole lot of people I may not have otherwise and had some incredible experiences – walking 100km in 30 hours, visiting a small village in Vanuatu, listening to amazing speakers and making a difference! Get amongst it! Next time we’ll hear from Nathan! Choice! Some photos from the Auckland City Rotaract Pub Crawl which we attended last Friday.
Clockwise: Bobbie, Stevie, and Amanda
Aaron and Nathan
Will and our friends from the Auckland City Rotaract Club, who organised the event.
Bye! A note from this year’s Club President, Kylie Brewer. Hello everyone, and welcome to the 2009-2010 Rotaract Year. I’m Kylie and I’m the new president. I’m really looking forward to the next year as we have some interesting and exciting projects in the pipeline to continue on our good work both locally and internationally. Our club continues to go from strength to strength and I strongly believe this is due to the amazing and motivated people in our club. You all are truly inspirational and each person brings their different qualities to the great big melting pot that is Pupuke Rotaract! Our new Rotaract year kicked off with our annual changeover where we dressed up in island themed costumes and celebrated who we are as a club and what we can achieve, proving that we may be small but we really are a force to be reckoned with. Keep up the fantastic work guys! Our meeting on 13th July saw us host Dr Alex Bartle, a sleep specialist. Dr Bartle spoke on what really happens when we sleep, for sleep really is more than just going to bed and then waking up in the morning. He explained that when we sleep the body goes through several stages of sleep throughout the night and these alternate between periods of rapid eye movement (REM) or non rapid eye movement (NREM). During the periods of REM the body is in a light sleep where we’re dreaming. Then when we fall into NREM we’re deep in sleep and our body is recovering and producing the growth hormones that we need. Most of the NREM sleep we experience happens in the first third of the night and this is where all the physical processes take place. The REM sleep occurs predominantly in the latter part of the night and this is the emotional parts of our sleep and where the thought processes take place. Dr Bartle also explained to us the importance of these two types of sleep and why we need them, along with how to deal with insomnia, and if you do suffer from this condition that the most important thing you can do is get rid of the clock! He also suggested that if you’re stressed, don’t take your issues to bed – instead, get up and write them down ready to be ready to deal with them the next day. Our friends from the Rotaract Club of Auckland City have organised a pub crawl tonight! This is to help fundraise for the Tichakunda Project in Zimbabwe. According to the website, this is a preschool set up by the Kuyamura Trust (which has a kiwi connection in Shaye Boddington).
There’s no running water at the school, and they are currently fundraising for a bore-hole on site. This will mean water for growing food for the kids and teachers, with the surplus as a possible source of revenue. We’ll be getting on the party bus at 7.30pm and hopping on and off at five bars around Auckland. Let the mayhem begin! –Teresa |
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