Hola!
It might seem hard to believe but it is really difficult updating the blog. We are kept occupied from the moment we wake until we fall in to bed after midnight. But I have found a sneaky five minutes so I will do my best to bring you up to speed with what I have experienced.
As some of the others have covered we spent a day visiting the polictically historical parts of B.A on Easter Sunday. Once I returned home to my family they were in the middle of a family gathering. They were keen for me to be involved. Have you ever played Pictionary in a language that is not your own!? It was possibly the funniest thing I have done for a while, but also an effective way to learn new words. I´d love to say my team won...but it didn´t.
On our second day in General Rodriguez we had two radio interviews and a newspaper interview. It would appear we are a little bit famous. That evening we attended a Rotary meeting in Luhan.
The following day we went to two factories. ´Just´ which is a Swiss owned cosmetics factory and La Serenisima which is the biggest dairy producer in Argentina. The tour around ´Just´was really interesting, seeing how products are made starting from the buying in of the cleanest water. The company has an excellent social ethos and has a partnership with a local project that assists people with disabilities. They began employing people with disabilities 15 years ago, the first company in the area to do so. They then donate what would equate to 10% of the employees wages backto the project. La Serenisima started as a tiny two person family company and has grown to control 80% of the market. I think the main highlight for Sam was seeing dulce de leche being made! Dulce de leche is basically type of condensed milk which is a bit like caramel. It is everywhere here, as spread for toast, in cakes and even in soap! We were lucky enough to come away with some free samples too.
In the evening our first official presentation. It went really welland everyone seemed to enjoy it. I am proud to say I delivered my introduction in Spanish! I will see how I get on with translating the rest of it.
This morning, 28th, Fernando brought round the newspaper the inerview had been printed in. We got a whole double page. One of the radio interviews is due to go outat 2pm today aswell, but we will miss it. We will have to try an get it on line later.
Hasta Luego!
Jerusha x
Crikey - what a brilliant report. I like your writing - it gives a real account of what you are doing and allows for pictures to be drawn in the imagination. I really hope that you are able to keep hold of your Spanish.
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