work week

Last Tuesday, I was one busy chicita preparing for my presentation. The highlight of my day was eating lunch with one of Claudine’s friends named Jules. When we were finished and talking afterwards, I perused through a copy of the Coran lying next to me. I saw a couple of things which troubled me in it. I’m no scholar in theological studies, but it was the first sacred text I read that spoke of other religions negatively (it actually names Christianity and Judaism). The passages about how to treat a women were also an interesting read…feminists must boil when reading the Coran! Since I didn’t read it from cover to cover (and have no intention to), I feel it isn’t my place to expand on this subject any further.

My presentation on Wednesday went relatively well even though half the people weren’t even present and it started two hours later than initially planned (at nursing staff’s request). I printed the handouts at the very last minute – as usual and reminded myself at how terrible a student I am since I’m always last minute…its pathological! When the presentation finally started, I was surprised to see that my supervisor, Abba, attended which I found was a good thing. Maybe one day, he’ll give me feedback. He repeated most of what I said which seemed to help the people present understand the concepts more clearly. I found it quite funny because he pretty much repeated verbatim but with his accent. I ended up eating lunch at 5 pm!

After work the next day, I organized the first ultimate baptism. I started this sport while studying at McGill and have played more or less ever since. Seeing that it was only recently invented, it hasn’t spread to this part of the world yet. Two of my team mates in Ottawa own a company that makes the discs. They gave me a stack of new discs to promote the sport here. Exciting! Its been difficult trying to organize something but I did it on last Thursday. Many people at the park joined in and its surprising how fast some people learn to throw + catch the disc. Towards the end, we even did a little scrummage as I added more and more rules (which thereafter got translated). Not easy! It was mostly boys who were interested – but all ages! I had little guys about 7 years old and full grown men. I’ll be trying to do weekly practices…