Blog Number 140

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

One of my trainees took pity on me last night and took me out to dinner.  This means that I whined just enough about being alone this week I guess.  It was a little funny as I was telling my wife that I was going out to dinner.  I told her the name of the guy who was picking my up (the way the name is pronounced makes it sound like it was a woman who was picking me up).  It took a little convincing that it was indeed a guy who I was hanging out with.  I am still not sure she believes me fully.  Trust me dear, it was a dude.

He offered many choices of places to go and I picked the one that sounded the most "Cordoba-ian" since I wanted to taste more of the local food.  As we made the 15 minute drive, he told me some of the history of Argentina and what "really" happened instead of what my history books might have said.  It was all very interesting.  We found the restaurant and ended up having a nice dinner for around $9 US (total for both of us combined - with tip).  He ordered something he had never had before which ended up being a tamale.  Of course I have had tamales so I had to educate him on food (something that I have not had to do for anyone yet).  I don't think he liked them very much.

Then we walked down the city square and saw many of the old buildings and churches there...

The above pic is a little blurry but I am not that accustomed to the camera and its settings for low light pictures.  We walked along the side streets where there were many vendors selling items right on the street...

I was not tempted to buy anything really.  We ended up at a local hot spot and had a seat for 20 minutes or so and discussed chess.  This guy was the same guy I discussed chess with at the "after office" get together we had last Wednesday.  I arrived back at the hotel around 12:15 and went to bed pretty quickly thereafter.

Today the class moves from the classroom we have been in for the last 2 weeks into their actual cubicles (or boxes as they say down here).  While I still had the projector yesterday, I went to the dilbert.com website and told them that in a few weeks these cartoons would be very funny to them.  Today though, everything changes as they gear up to take on actual work next Monday.  I think they are excited and nervous at the same time about this.  I am confident they will do fine once they get their feet wet.  Time will tell however how well of a teacher I have been.

Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon