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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Governor Tour - Weekend 2

Weekend number 2 in my Governor tour landed me in the heart of the OC- California.

A day before I was to land I had the chance to catch up with the Assistant Administrator for KIWIN’S, Paul Duplesis. Paul is an amazing and loyal friend. If you’ve never met the man, make it a habit to at our District Convention.

Paul is a guy whose life has had its ups and downs, but through it all he’s always had a ton of support. KIWIN’S members who are now CKI’ers definitely understand and appreciate everything this guy does. That being said, the guy is insanely funny as well. Not funny as in, he makes a ton of jokes. He’s more of the guy who tells people like me that I’m pushing the envelope a bit. The problem is, he can’t tell me to stop pushing the envelope because he’s laughing so damn hard. Ah Paul. Future DA.

I land in Ontario, and Paul picks me up and takes me to the Magic Kingdom Service Project/DCM. My flight was a bit late, so I didn’t even get a chance to help the kids make art supplies. It was good to see Lt. Governor Danny and our Awards Chair Long hanging out with the kids though. The only problem is, when you put the three of us, and a couple more people together … yeah, it leads to a ton of laughs.

After the service project, UCI President Sarah Bana led the clubs in a “reflection” of the service project. Pretty much, everyone gathers in a circle and reflects on the event. It is an amazing way to get people to understand and better yet, feel the importance of the presence in these events. I think it is definitely something I would pass along to other clubs looking for a way to motivate members into doing service.

The Magic Kingdom DCM was held in a Chipotle – classic. Though I don’t recommend it (and Danny knows, haha), it was actually a pretty quiet place to have the meeting luckily. I was given a plaque for riding the rose float, and we got to begin the fun game of naming people to future District Board positions – even if they didn’t know so! Please make it a habit to attend DCM’s, they really are fun!

From the DCM, I had to jump back in Paul’s car and head on over to Glendora for the Metro Crab Feed.

Let me tell you how awesome this concept is:

You host an event, in which members pay a set amount to eat as much crab as humanly possible. Most buffets in Las Vegas (Lost Wages) is about 25-30 bucks. You eat a ton of different things. Most buffets even charge more if they offer seafood. But if you, as a club, buy the crab in bulk from a wholesaler, reducing the costs considerably, you can charge less. $22 does the trick for me. And then you donate the money to a good cause, you give people a reason to want to eat all this crab. It’s a great fundraiser. I encourage all of you to have food fundraisers. I will attend them. Crab seems to be the weakness for me.

The feed itself was pretty awesome, filled with raffles and familiar faces. Peter Yu attended the event. So now you have Peter Yu, myself, Paul, Alan Morton (Past Go West Chair). You now have the most entertaining (at least we thought so) table in the room. I’m sure the UCLA club enjoyed our presence too (I hope!) Grace from UCLA seems to think I grew horizontally. Forget you foolio. =P

The next morning, after all you can eat crab, we decided it would be a great idea to have Korean BBQ in Garden Grove. At the event was Peter Yu, Lt. Governor Danny, Lt. Governor Andi, Awards Chair Long, Past District Officer Pei Pei Chu, Fullerton President Liz. It was all the guys on one table, the girls on the other. Even with all the men laughing over every joke we made (I can’t tell you the jokes made, they … you will have to message me), we were still going through plates of meat like crazy. It came to a point where we just kept eating the bacon pieces which is basically just fat fried. Way to go, Chris.

The amount we consumed in that hour was pretty nauseating, though if I didn’t have to leave for the airport, we would of stayed at least another 2 hours. We were pretty determined to deplete the Korean’s stock of meat.

The ride the airport with Andi was actually pretty fun. Few jokes, look at the time. Few more jokes, look at the time. I got the airport and ran through security. It was pretty hilarious, but I just made my flight on time. They didn’t serve drinks because the ride was bumpy, and they meant it. I couldn’t even read my magazine, which tells you it was pretty insane, that flight.

The weekend overall was awesome, I got to make two more divisional visits, and I only have a couple to go. I hope to be able to finish those up before my term in office is over. These last few months are really the fun ones the Governor gets to enjoy. Making visits, talking to clubs, getting a feel for where their future is headed. That’s really what our organization is about right now. We are making sure the future is in good hands. So do your part. Motivate members to step up and keep CNH #1.

posted by Chris Plasterer at 4:25 PM

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