Not the Only Exchanger and a Difficult Presentation (November Part II)

We were all kind of worried. All of the Rotarians and I were at the Krasnoyarsk airport waiting
to meet Fernando (the exchange student from Brazil) when he got off of the airplane. Some
Rotarians in Moscow waited for him for two hours to meet him during his rather large layover there and he never showed. They even called over the loudspeaker for him. But, what they didn't know, was that for two hours Fernando couldn't leave the back part of the airport because they had lost his checked bag, and he needed
it to send it through customs. It was on the next flight, which was two hours from arrival. So he
waited back there. He heard his name called once, but he didn't know what to do, because he

Everyone at the Airport with the newbie, Fernando (except for his host mom).

didn't know what would happen if he left that back area without his bags. Kind of unfortunate.
We knew he went through Moscow only because Rotarians called Customs to
make sure he went through.
We waited for what seemed like forever at the airport. We arrived there at 7 (I was picked up at 6:30) , and he didn't get off the plane until 8:25. Needless to say, I got super anxious and no one else really cared. I don't know why I was so excited to meet him. Just happy to have another Exchanger around I guess! It is really difficult to be the only one in the group of people I see regularly to not understand Russian all the way and have to adjust to this wonderful and different culture.

The 30th of November was an interesting day. I gave a speech (or, er, a lecture?) on Non Profit
Organizations in the United States to a charity organization. A Rotaract member had been working for this organization for a couple months. It's focus is to assist parents who have special

Me with the group I gave my presentation to.

needs children.
I also talked a little about Rotary, but didn't know that I was supposed to talk about it before my actual
lecture, so I literally had to wing it.
My presentation was over an hour long. Almost two. Can you believe it? I felt bad for my translator (a Rotaract member who is the same age as me) because it truly is a difficult subject and I talked in kind of a confusing way.
Not on purpose, but I was nervous, too, and got kind of tongue tied sometimes. Poor guy.