Tuesday, 15th May and Farewell Banquet

Our last vocational day!

Jaap went to The Rodale Institute, a 3rd generation company that has been pioneering organic research, education and outreach for the past 60 years. Dr Amadou Diop, a fellow African from Senegal and soil specialist, introduced Jaap to Ardath Rodale, vice-chairman of the Institute. In the afternoon, Jaap visited KidsPeace which is a national center for kids overcoming crisis.

Carl went to the Woodside Country Club and attended a financial committee meeting. After that he visited the Holiday Inn Fogelsville.

Ferdi spent the day at Liberty High School in Bethlehem. It is a school of 1300 learners and over 200 teachers. He had a wonderful experience in all the classes and even taught accounting and, in the afternoon, went to a voting station and took part in the local election process.

Kerry-Lynn had a breakfast meeting with Paul Sarver, founder of myTableware.com, a family owned e-commerce company specialising in pattern dinnerware, and later visited the company. After that she went to INetU, an Enterprise Managed Hosting company that specialises in the management of dedicated server solutions. Kerry-Lynn then had a lunch meeting with Paul Oliver, Director of IT, at Just Born Candies, makers of 'Mike & Ike' and 'Marshmallow Peeps' amongst many other types of candy. She was taken on a tour of the Data Center and the candy-making factory (which involved some mandatory 'taste testing'!).

Jack visited the marketing manager of the Lehigh Valley Hospital. He then went to the Lehigh Valley Center for Sight and spent a few hours with an ophthalmologist and a coordinator for See International, which performs ocular procedures for people in poorer communities.

Tuesday night was time to say goodbye to all our previous host families and other Rotarians at our Farewell Banquet in the William Penn Inn.

After a delicious dinner, we were shown a slideshow of the many photos taken by Rotarians over the past 5 weeks and it was great to see our Team through the eyes of others!! :-)

But there were more surprises in store!! Ferdi, Jack, Kerry-Lynn and Carl took part in a quiz show with many questions about our trip and the area. For each correctly answered question a small American flag was awarded and the person with the most flags could go home to SA as reward!! ;-) We were each given a small bicycle bell (with a Winnie the Pooh theme - which Jack promptly broke!) which we had to ring if we knew the answer. Jaap had to determine who rang the bell first and hand out the flags. Ferdi collected the most flags and all the Tastycakes!

The best answer of the evening was in response to this question:
True or False: Open shoes can be worn on the Harley-Davidson Factory Tour
to which Jack answered 'Crocs!!' And before you ask - the rest of us don't know - you'll have to ask Jack about that one!!

At the end of the evening - the time had come to say (in Kerry's case - very teary) goodbyes to everyone!