Prado visits

After many miscues, I finally met some groups at school 63 this week. Thursday and Friday I got up extra early to tell them all about my hometown and answer their many questions.

Alejandra's class today had a lot to say. And not only this side of the room (though Vittorio was especially loquacious).

Here's the other half. They combined two groups, representing Scientific and Humanities orientations . Thursday was a group from Biology. It's impressive to me that kids in Uruguay decide on their initial career orientation in what for us would be like 10th grade. At that age, I was still thinking it would be a good idea to design videogames, though I have a strong aversion actually learning how technology works. To me it's like the cartoon characters who run out into midair, over the edge of the cliff--they're fine, until they look down and realize there's nothing there. Anyway, after visiting them, I went to the famous Rural del Prado. Guess whose day it was?

And there I ran into an old friend--