The speaker Niels Loeb, chief designer of Adam Opel AG, held a very interesting presentation about one of the car that he worked on and gave us a detailed overview on the ADAM. Niels told us about two principals, on which ADAM is based: “Innovate and not imitate”!
There are 64000 combinations of ADAM that give Opel customers a choice to design their own car, which leads us to the conclusion that ADAM is all about personalization.
As we’ve already had a number of interesting presentations for the last period, a decision to spend one of the Monday’s evening at a nice place with tasty food and drinks in a great company wasn’t a bad idea at all.
It was indeed the first meeting in the history of our club, when we could try as many chocolate as we wanted to. Moreover, our guests and members had an opportunity to choose between the variety not only of dark, white and milk chocolate, but also of the latest innovation – caramel chocolate, which some people from our group found even better than the traditional ones.
The history of “Heller Pralinen ” was told by Christian Ruzicka – the owner of this chocolate business, who kindly explained us the way his manufactory works and gave us a chance to enjoy the taste of a well-qualified marzipan, nougat and even of raw cacao beans.
Susanne Bergsträßer (Senior Director of the BaFin) gave us a short introduction of the work as a securities supervision. The BaFin is a Federal Financial Supervisory Authority in Germany. Before 1995, there was no such supervisory organization in Gernany and therefore People sometimes called it a “banana republic”.
This meeting was especially interesting for those, who are working in or studying business and finance. Nevertheless, some of our guests and members that are not related to these topics had an opportunity to learn more about it and had, of course, fun, while doing it.
Arthur Muguet presented to us a short summary of the book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey. This book deals with personal effectiveness. Here are seven habits of people that want to reach a high level of effectiveness: 1) Be proactive; 2) Begin with the end in mind; 3) Put first things first; 4) Think win/win; 5) Seek first to understand then to be understood; 6) Synergize; 7) Sharpen the saw.
With an idea to get to know each other better, we’ve split into two groups with the new member of the club in each of them. Each group had its own plan for this evening: one part our guests and members went to the bowling and had more active kind of fun, while another one spent a quiet evening in the Maingold Café.
Miruna told us about her journey to India and about her first and following impressions that she got there during two weeks. A great number of amazing photos were showed to us and we could only wonder what an incredible country it is. Moreover, some of our guests and members started thinking about spending their next vacation in India in order to plunge in its culture. 
It’s official: we are not the youngest club in the district anymore! Yesterday, on October 18th, we celebrated the official founding charter of the Rotaract Club Schwalm-Eder. It was a really nice evening with, yes, again, delicious food, great conversations and awesome people. Thank you again to the RAC Schwalm-Eder for the invitation and we wish you a good start!
If you are ever in the area check out their homepage for more information.
On October 13th, our member Gisela taught us some lessons about disposition. The conclusion:
The RAC Mainz invited us to join them for their traditional “Federweißer” meeting with Federweißer and Zwiebelkuchen… and this was an invitation we could not decline! So on October 6th 2014 a group of courageous members went to cross district borders to district 1860. Their courage was rewarded with a great evening: some glasses of delicious Federweißer, homemade Zwiebelkuchen and in general a lot of fun with new friends. 🙂
Thank you very much guys, we are already looking forward to next year…
On September 29th, we welcomed a high-ranking guest to our meeting: Constanze, former RDK (Rotaract German Committee) chairperson. With the advances of the IS in Iraq and Syria the topic of the evening could not have been more up-to-date. We learned to distinguish between ethno-nationalistic terrorism (e.g. ETA), social-revolutional terrorism (RAF) and religious motivated terrorism (such as Al-Qaida and their advanced brothers from IS).
Handkäs and Ebbelwoi are typical elements of the cuisine in Frankfurt/Hessia. Since we had never gone to a typical “Apfelweinkneipe” before it was about time we did and we truly had a wonderful evening.
On September 15th, we welcomed Tim to our meeting. Although he is German, he has been following American politics with a passion for years. Thus it was a logical conclusion to have him talk about the midterm elections in the US taking place on November 4th this year. It was a witty presentation full of facts and figures and we are excited to see what will happen in November…
… Then you should try “Tough Mudder”! On September 8th, Caro, president of the RAC Hanau, fascinated us in her presentation on one of the toughest hobbies a person can have. Take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh5HdPM_QuE
