Bella was off to teach Bridge today and is impressed with
her crop of students, not one has dropped out yet… One of her students at the party last night
also commented on how good she is at teaching.
Way to go Bella!
I did my usual thing and tried to figure out some local
news, some from Twitter. Google
Translate is pretty bad for translating anything from Spanish so a person has
to guess a lot. Apparently Coopera
employees are striking because they have lost jobs???? And the Police in Quito are posting about violence in futbol
stadiums and how they won’t use tear gas or rubber bullets…. I could find nothing about a recent incident
that would have caused those remarks….
Then I again got ready and hobbled my way downtown for yet
another Coopera meeting. Typically the
crowd kept filtering in until it was SRO.
We ended with a roomful of Ecuadorians and regrettably only 3 of us
Expats. Luckily I had a young man raised
in Toronto next
to me so he gave me some play by play.
When the lawyer and the VP of the group started calling each other
liars, then most of the crowd was appealing for calm and unity. There is just so much misinformation and
paranoia now that it is a real chore to sit and listen to the repetitive rhetoric. I left early, my back had had enough, and I
asked the young fellow to send me a quick synopsis after the meeting. I hope he does.
Our proposed venue for the Hearts Of Gold Xmas Gala is not
being very cooperative and my patience is getting really short with them. It doesn’t help that I am angry upon
awakening these days. The Coopera fiasco
is wearing me down and is ruining my enjoyment of this lovely country.
That was the day’s excitement. Cheers, Al
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