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Dina:
Yes :)
As the forum has people all around the world, we liked to greet with "Good maen" (morning, afternoon, evening, night). That soon became just "maen".
I hope you enjoyed your food and book.
As I promised, I want to tell you about my week. I think i told you I am in the board (jury?) for the position of teacher assistant for students. Brief reminder of how things work at my university. Each class, like "Genetics" of the career has a professor (or two) who explains the theory. Basically lectures. Then we have practical classes, which include laboratory, excercises in the traditional pen and paper way and practices in computers with special softwares. Those classes have 3 categories of teachers (but if some classes have few students, it may be less teachers). Those categories are: Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos (Chief of practices), Ayudante de Primera y Ayudante de Segunda (Assistant First Class, and Assistant Second Class). The Chief almost always is a Ph. D. The Assistant First Class is a graduate, that may be a ph. D. (like me) or not. The Assistant Second Class is always a student, normally one who is close to graduation.
Well, all those teaching positions are obtained by "concurso" which I know I told you before. It is like a competition, where all those who apply are judged based in their résumé (curriculum) and in a mock class (where the appliant needs to explain something as if they were teaching for an imaginary class).
Well, this time I am among those who qualified the students that want to be Assistant Second Class. We heard 14 of those classes today and we still have two more days of the same. But it is still good because originally we had 59 candidates. Finally only 36 will be trying.
I am mentally tired...
Regenbogen:
Hi, Dina.
Are the trials still going?
Maen all! ;D
We've had some very hot days which always causes me headaches.
Our little lakes are still not good for bathing because there is too much e. coli and other unhealthy stuff from the floodings. The river still has too much water and running too fast, so the only option for cooling off is the public bath, which is stuffed with people so you could not even turn around without bumping into someone. So I don't go.
This week, I am going to harvest the plums. They are ripe early this year. Usually they are ripe in the middle of August.
This year, there are so many plums, that some of the branches are so heavy, they are hanging down to the ground. We've never needed to support the branches of the plum tree.
I think this will bring so many plums, I'll have to give half of them away, because we won't have the space to keep them all.
Then I want to take the girls hunting for a new sofa.
Dina:
Hi Regen!
No, thanks God it is over. We will have meetings next week for evaluating the résumés, but this week we decided to focus on our normal works. Well, more or less in my case, as my cousin is married on Wednesday and will be having offering a lunch in a restaurant.
I love that bathing in river and lakes is an option for you :) (even when not right now). Sorry about your headache and I hope it is over now. And great news about the plums. Do you do jams or something with them? I am sure people will enjoy them. When I was a teenager we lived in a house that had a plum tree and sometimes it gave a lot of fruit so we used to give it to our neighbors too. They were quite sweet. We never did anything with them. My family has not a tradition of crafting confitures or things like that.
Regenbogen:
Sometimes I make confitures. Usually I make one cake with fresh plums. But this will be approximately 30-35 kg. A normal harvest will bring about 20 kg. So most of it will be frozen to use later. Some of it we put in jars with rum. Delicious. We'll see.
DaVinci's paws smell of gasoline. It has happened twice now. We have looked under cars in the neighbourhood, but none of them leaks. I am thinking of the garage nearby. They sell and repair Opel cars. Maybe this is also the place where they feed him. We tried to wash his paws, which he didn't like. I tried to clean him so that he won't digest the gasoline, but he fled outside and hid under my car. But at least his paws got full of water and shampoo. I put some water into the bathtub and put him inside, so that only his feet got wet. Guess he doesn't enjoy it. 8)
Dina:
Oh! I hope Da Vinci is ok. I remember one day (when I was a teenager) one of our cats came home dripping some sort of grease. It was awful and took long to clean and dry him. I feel your struggle, dealing with a cat refusing to be washed is very difficult.
Yep, it seems that you will have lots of plum :)
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