Lunch at Casa Pascal

Today we had the honour to go over for our monthly lunch to Casa Pascal.  Due to the limited space they’re able to serve 75 members of PILC.  Finally 69 showed up.

Everybody was happy to see each other after a month or even so due to holidays or home leaves.  Some members from Europe had to cope with the ash cloud and ‘enjoyed’ an extended holiday.  Another ‘hot’ item to speak about was the political situation in Thailand and all the side effects.

Anja introduced our speaker of today Mr. Paul Crouch from the Regent’s School Pattaya.  Mr. Paul gave a presentation about the International Round Square Conference 2010 hosted by the Regent’s School from 9 until 15 October 2010, named “We Walk Together”.  The involved schools in the Round Square association send teams of representatives to this five-day conference every year.  The conferences are hosted by one of the involved schools.  We got details about the program and he showed us the keynote speakers.  It was a very informative presentation.  For those who would like to know some more or weren’t able to join us, the website is: www.rs-wewalktogether.org.

Anja welcomed two new members:  Sally Lindsay from Australia and Gabrielle Kirschner from Germany.

Sadly she also had to announce that Lynne Richards joined us for the last time because she’s going back to Australia.

Two points of special attention were today:

*On Saturday 5th June there’ll be the annual Monster Garage Sale.  If you have stuff to sell or if you would want to volunteer please contact Gillian Thom.
*Currently an advertisement on Pattaya People Television is running for new members.

The Quiz Night last Saturday was nice and successful with some fanatic teams.

Peggy went through the upcoming trips with special attention for the trip to Borneo from 12 until 16 July.

In the end, we enjoyed a lovely lunch with a variety of choices from the menu and a nice service of the staff of Casa Pascal.  This lunch was even more special for me because I won a prize for the first time in my life!

Marja Hofman