This past Friday and Sunday I have been busy with RA mid-year training. After both of those long days I am now checking in 40 new students to begin the semester today. I enjoy the RA training, but it makes for a long day. Pictured below are some of my staff members in between training activities in the student center.
This weekend Anna brough home a friend from Mayo. Her name is Sonia and she is from Spain. It was fun to have her around for the weekend. On Saturday we took her up to Madison to show her the capitol, State Street, and Lake Mendota. Pictured below is Anna and I at Ella's Deli where we had lunch.
Things that Sonia learned from her trip to Madison: Leaving my car with the keys in the ignition to warm up the car while I am not in it will not equate to it being stolen (in Barcelona that is a different story), not only can lakes freeze, and not only can you walk on them, but strange people actual drills holes in them to fish (see photo below of Anna and Sonia), Americans buy vegetables frozen (she was leery of eating them), and oil and viniger are not standard at restaurant tables.
Things that I learned from Sonia about her country: Bullfighters are not welcome in Barcelona, most people will live in one town their whole life, people stay up late at night to watch live coverage of NFL and NBA games, Spain produces good wine and olive oil (but are not well known in the United States because the country does not marken them well), a semester at the University costs about $1,000, and how to demand my wife bring me a beer in Spanish (that didn't go over very well with Anna).
Other exciting things: I got an e-mail from Jim about his upcoming wedding (time to go get sized for a tux), Kevin finds out what synod he will be placed in within the next month (February 20), Jay and Tabby continue to work on their new house (I hear they picked Vikings purple as a color for one of their rooms), and I am taking a group of RAs to a conference this weekend.
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