The Pennies That Taught Conversation

On each table she placed a small baggie of 10 pennies. Everyone at the table was encouraged to pick a penny out of the bag that was made after the year they were born.

In doing this, people ended up with years such as 1981, 1973, 2003, etc. Whatever the year you picked you had to tell the table you were sitting at something interesting that happened to you during that year.

At our table, one was contemplating a move to Yellowknife, another was still living down south but all his children were finally born, another was kissed for the first time in that year, and yet another was bitten on the hand by a rat while shooting marbles in Halifax!

It was a fabulous idea to get people to talk to each other about themselves, and let in a little bit of their personal stuff we don't normally see at the Rotary meetings.  My hat is off to you Lydia. Thank you for being such a great source of inspiration to us all of how to live as Rotarians.