My first real Rotary District Governor Nominee job was 8 days of training in Memphis, Tennessee at the Rotary Zone Institute and training seminar. There were three former Rotary International Presidents and the Current President in attendance. I also had the pleasure to meet my classmates, the 29 District Governor Nominees from the districts in Zone 30 & 31. It was much easier to discuss what we will go through with like people who will be going through the same thing that I will be going through. The comradery was easily the best with my group. I also found out that our district is the smallest geographically in the combined zones. What I liked best about the Zone training was the passion everyone had for Rotary. Spending eight days on just Rotary gave me the jump start I needed to really get involved in the specifics of being District Governor. The only bad thing I could say about the whole trip is that it was expensive to do anything. If you are going to visit Memphis, take lots of money!
