Gualeguaychu
The town of Gualeguaychu is very similar to Hamilton - being a centre of an important farming region. Just to make me even more at home it has started to rain!!
Our first team presentation was to the two local rotary clubs at a very nice welcome dinner. These are very small clubs of only about 10 people each. They were all very impressed with our haka, with Sarita telling me she was scared to go to sleep that night with me in the house!! Last night we had a public presentation to about 50 people. I later found out that the Rotary club had asked people to bring donations for the local public school (for the poor) ... it was awesome to know our presentation has helped in this small way. Earlier in the day we had visited this school and another private school. At both we talked to classes about New Zealand. The schools were worlds apart - the private very well resourced, with English only spoken in the morning, uniforms, etc ... while the public school was using their laundry area as a kitchen while they built a new building. Around 100 orphans and children from poor families lived at the school. During our visit the local Rotary clubs presented them with a hot water heater and sewing machine (for the girls!)
Last night I enjoyed my first asado. This is the Argentinian version of a Kiwi bbq, where they cook the meat very slowly (around three hours) over an open fire. It was muy delicioso!! In fact we are being very well fed here, it seems all we do is eat. Everyone goes home for lunch around 12pm which can consist of 3-4 courses - salad first, then a main, then dessert, then coffee and cake!! Then they do it all again for dinner (and this starts much later than we are used to, around 9/10pm).
Our first team presentation was to the two local rotary clubs at a very nice welcome dinner. These are very small clubs of only about 10 people each. They were all very impressed with our haka, with Sarita telling me she was scared to go to sleep that night with me in the house!! Last night we had a public presentation to about 50 people. I later found out that the Rotary club had asked people to bring donations for the local public school (for the poor) ... it was awesome to know our presentation has helped in this small way. Earlier in the day we had visited this school and another private school. At both we talked to classes about New Zealand. The schools were worlds apart - the private very well resourced, with English only spoken in the morning, uniforms, etc ... while the public school was using their laundry area as a kitchen while they built a new building. Around 100 orphans and children from poor families lived at the school. During our visit the local Rotary clubs presented them with a hot water heater and sewing machine (for the girls!)
Last night I enjoyed my first asado. This is the Argentinian version of a Kiwi bbq, where they cook the meat very slowly (around three hours) over an open fire. It was muy delicioso!! In fact we are being very well fed here, it seems all we do is eat. Everyone goes home for lunch around 12pm which can consist of 3-4 courses - salad first, then a main, then dessert, then coffee and cake!! Then they do it all again for dinner (and this starts much later than we are used to, around 9/10pm).
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