Yesterday evening I didn’t have class in the evening so I went to a so-called academic week of presentations (if you can call them that) at CTG in our city. I usually go every year but not to see the presentations as they are terrible. It is usually to catch up with friends I haven’t seen for a long time who study in UEG, the local public university. I have no idea who the guy was giving last night’s presentation but it was bad. On a scale of 1 to 10 with ten being the worst possible it ranked at about a 20. Don’t take my word for it, most people who were there went to watch a soccer match in the room next door instead of listening to this guy waffling on about who knows what. There was a data show available and a decent sound system too, I have no idea why he didn’t try to use it in the presentation instead of just using it to show translations of stuff that he didn’t really understand himself. I would love to have this kind of stuff in my classroom. One good reason for going to these yearly things is that I am always reminded to make sure that my classes never get as bad or boring as this.
As you can see from the photo above, I bumped into a lot of old friends and ex-students too. In the photo with me are Ariel and Larissa, my old MEC students. They are so cute and funny 
They study Letras at the same uni as Roberta, but a year ahead. We didn’t see anything of the presentation but spent time catching up with other old friends and students of ours
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