Fianlly the day of teaching begins. On Saturday Oct 23, 2010 we attended the last session of the Conference then in the afternoon I had my first class session.
But in the morning when we were getting ready, my dear wife with my help blow all the electricity in the room with her blow dryer. We tried to explain to the person at the desk but on the weekend no one seeks english at the desk and the Hotel is closed, we left the room hoping that we had communicated our dilemma so we would have power restored by the end of the day, but apparently we did not since when we returned after dark, Carol had to shower to the light of the blackberry backlight, really cool. Then we played cards to the light of the computer. When our batteries are exhausted I am not sure what we do, Carol says we go to real Hotel.
When we tried to leave the parking lot we were surprized to discovery that for some reason the parking lot was closed with an iron gate that had not previously been there all week. So we had to maneuver down the ramp to the garbage dumpster and around it across the lawn. No police so we escaped on our way to the University.
My class was marvelous, wonderful and inspiring. If these students are the future of Slovakia then this country has a good future. I had to teach five hours which is difficult especially when you have planned to teach in smaller segments but the students were great. Carol took individual phots of them so we can learn their names, at least the first name. There is a picture of the class and some of the students below. We have been treated in a wonderful way by the University.
They were good sports are about taking their picture, there were a few who did not participate and a comment about the mug shot picture.
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