Saturday, June 23, 2012

FAWCO Conference - Dublin

In mid-March, I attended this year's FAWCO conference, this time as a board member and the Presidents' Coordinator - much more work than play this time compared to Morrocco, Boston and Vilnius.

We had an evening at the Jameson Distillery - where I did the Irish jig in my high heels (not really recommended as my knee required physical therapy for a few weeks following...) another at Dublin Castle.  I was able to take a very short bus tour (about two hours) to view some of the city, but from a moving bus it was challenging to take it all in :) 

Although it was a tremendous amount of work, we did get into Dublin proper and met some wonderful, warm and welcoming folks - including a cop from Cohasset, MA - small world!  It was another fabulous conference, at which I took hundreds of photos which are posted on my facebook page.










Upon my return, I dove into a project for the AWC of The Hague, managing PR for our spring fundraiser, the Hearts & Minds Gala, to raise money for the Lighthouse and Stichting Papageno, organizations supporting children with autism and their families.   The films I created for the event (one to explain autism and the beneficiaries, and one to promote the sponsors and the items donated for the live and silent auctions) are far too large to post, but they came out very well and the event raised over 40,000 euros!

Just a few days after the gala we began travelling - first to the U.S. where I celebrated my birthday with friends and family, visited some more friends, headed to Maine for the Memorial Day weekend and then came back to Holland - and then a week later we left for a holiday in Menorca, Spain.

I'm getting ready to post about our trip to the U.S. and Menorca soon.....!!