On May 15th, Tommy Snyders, Welwitchia213’s secretary and treasurer embarked on his journey to join the roundtable Mauritius AGM which took place on the 17th to 19th of May 2024 at the prestigious Oceans creek beach hotel in Le Goulet, Balaclava district Mauritius.
2 connect flights later, on the 16th of May, he got a warm welcome at the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport from the MRT3 tablers. From the airport they had quite the drive to the house of MRT 7 chairman Cédric Béguier. Here they were welcomed with a crazy house party hosted by MRT president, and man can they throw a party. At the party they extended the invitation to Tommy, asking him to help with the initiation of their prospects better known as pipeliners to the RTSA tablers. He gave them a few challenges to give them an idea of how RTSA table. The challenges included boat races or singing the roundtable song etc. They chose the boat races as they were not familiar with the RT song. After a somewhat successful race, due to the fact that it was single races, one of the prospects did not make it through the rest of the induction, and might I add I heard it was the second attempt of inducting them, and they did not make it both times, had quite the laugh though. Tommy challenged them further with tasks like remembering some of the Namibian area projects and table names with their numbers, and to his surprise they could remember most of it. After the induction they had an amazing rest of the social and he could make new brothers and sisters in table. Few pin exchanges took place and the rest is history as the party only ended the next day. Below is a picture.
Friday morning on the 17th of, May most woke up with their heads banging and dragging but they had to get ready for the AGM that would start the Friday night at the hotel so check in was due.
But before the check in the MRT tablers took out the international guests for an early lunch, to get rid of the previous night’s toxins, ‘laugh’’, the Mauritians literally did a detox smoothie while Tommy enjoyed a cold beer. The lunch turned out to be amazing and they sealed it off with another cold beer.
After check in all tablers got ready for the nations night festivities which entails, locally sourced products from each RT area/country. Tommy took a bottle of locally produced brandy call ‘’Bevok’’ and some biltong, chilli bites and dröewors. This was a definite winner as the other international tablers could simply not have enough. The only other international nations table was the Reunion Island tablers, which served their traditional bottles of locally produced rum.
This was a total experience as there was quite a variety of flavours, and might I add if the Namibians were to get their hands on that liquor they would have been extinct by now, as their livers would be in end stage failure due to the volume of alcohol present in the rum.
And obviously the hosting country or Island in this case also outdid themselves, we had quite a feast later the night as we ended of the nation’s night. These dishes included mostly curry and halal dishes as they have a very broad Indian background. There were also pins exchanged and some banners from international tables. After all festivities we ended up in a hotel room as the venue had to close down, and did we have another fun social. This was the ideal time to get to know the international tablers even better as none of them backed out, so remember to always say yes to table events even in a hotel room! Laugh.
Saturday morning, the 18th of May they had an amazing breakfast as they recuperated from the previous night, and also had to be fresh for the AGM that would take place at 14h00 Mauritian time. They had quite the welcoming, and only started 5minutes late, which was sorted out as they had asked Tommy and Finarita Andrian from Madagascar to be co-sergeants. ‘’ And might I add, a job well done’ in Tommy’s own words. Tommy tried his best to minute the meeting in his role of secretary, but was unsuccessful as 50% of the meeting ended up being in French, and again the sergeants handled it. The AGM ended up to be quite successful, all reports were submitted on time and they could propose them for adoption. However, at the end of the meeting, Tommy asked to extend a few words as he picked up a few errors with the reports. One of the errors was the fact that all the tables used one template and format from MRT1, they could not believe it and projected all the reports once again for all to see and confirm, this to them was very amusing as not one have picked this up through the meeting and previous reports. The sergeant being Tommy himself had the honour of giving the area council and all tablers a little motivation to critically analyse the reports. One of the drinks used by the sergeants was a locally produced kombutcha/mampoer like drink, stored in a 21 year old bottle which surprisingly is the age of Tommy.
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