Day 18

Wed., June 28
There was a Maroon Alert, bomb threat so we left a few minutes early.

On the 18th day of class - we had a Global visit with Ruth's friend from Brazil. The videoconference was held through 'Zoom'. This program takes slightly less bandwidth than Skype. You can split the screen and show a computer screen along with the speaker's live image. 'Mayor' shared pictures of food (paõ queijo - cheese bread) and great places to go in Brazil. The places were Ilha Grande, near Rio and Margogi in the Northeast.Both places were beach paradises. The water was incredible. I thought she would mention the Amazon, but no. I think I would enjoy visiting Brasil. I might have success reading the Portuguese language. I haven't been successful at listening and comprehending so far.

We had a visit from a counselor, Talya Straughter. We rated our wellness in six areas: Emotional, Social, Financial, Intellectual, Spiritual and Physical. It was very insightful. As a result we realized that we need to take better care of ourselves. Ms. Straughter gave us a calendar of ways we could pamper ourselves daily. She told us to spend one hour on ourselves each day. This is a tall order for a professional female but I'll try to do better. I think we all really enjoyed this speaker because we were feeling the stress of all the GAETI projects we needed to finish!

See you in the next blog.