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Sun, 28 Mar 2004

Back from NLATS

I got up on Friday morning around 4:00 am, and left the house around 5:00. A fellow scouter and I travelled to New Jersey to attend the National Lodge Adviser Training Conference.

Along the way, we made a side-trip to see the world trade center site. Honestly, the hole in the ground wasn't very moving. However, the displays set up at St. Paul's Chapel were very moving. When I saw the Teddy bear display for the children of the victims, my eyes were very moist.

Then we went on to NLATS, which was a very exciting experience. Many members of the National OA committee were there, and it was a great opportunity to learn the correct way of doing things from the ones in the know. The problem with the OA is that it is so big and so disperse that rumors float so easily, and the difference between the real way of doing things and the way some person thinks things should happen blurs so quickly. Any opportunity to talk to somebody very high up is golden.

So now I'm back, and loaded with all sorts of great ideas. I hope the opportunity will come along where I will be able to try some of them.


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