Of Rotary Meetings

My host club is Salamanca de Monterrico
And this club is very very different than the Portland Pearl and any that I have visited in Oregon and Washington, atleast in its meetings and size.
My club is tiny-tiney. At the meetings we all sit around two tables that have been placed together. Including guests there have been about sixteen people at each meeting. Very small, though the club isn't considered super small here.

The meetings are also very different because they begin at nine in the evening and I havn't been to a meeting yet that hasn't ended before midnight. We are also served a three cours meal which is always tasty. Defintly an improvement right there! haha
The meetings are "catered", meaning that there is always a woman who has set up the meeting place, the table with a table cloth, place settings, ect. And she brings out the food from an undisclosed location (meaning its outside of the room and I have no idea where it is) and takes away the empty plates as people finish and brings the next cours.

As for the form of the meeting it really depends on what is happening and what people have chosen to talk about. The president speaks and then there is an order for others to speak- the person who is in charge of certain things speaks about their responsibility, if they have anything to discuss. Then if everything has been covered and we are still eating it goes to "open session" where we all just chat.
Then at the end of the night there is a Raffle.
Word for the wise, Peruvians LOVE raffles. I've already been apart of about five and witnessed more. They are a very popular part of this culture.
So every night, at the end of the Rotary meeting, there is a raffle, it becomes the responsibility of different members to bring something for the raffle, it goes around.
And then we all say ciao and go home (which is about a half hour to forty five minute drive from where I live)!