I got up early enough this morning for my walk to the gym and a short work-out while there.
I got a little more work done on my orchestration of Eli Eli this morning. I'm working on the expression in the third section, where a brass choir, together with oboe, flute, bassoon, and double bass, are playing together in Bach-chorale style.
I taught 8 units of Berlitz lessons today: 11:00-12:30 (the only one that was NOT a WHO group); 3:30-5:00, 5:30-7:00, and 7:00-8:30. All 3 of my WHO groups will have their last lessons tomorrow.
In one of my groups today, one of the students is in Afghanistan and has lived there all her life. We were talking about traffic, and the situation she told us about is truly dire -- in Kabul, a city of 3 million people (!), there are NO working traffic lights, no public transportation (there used to be electric buses, but they are all completely gone now), traffic and road closures due to security that cause even worse traffic, and no controls on bringing vehicles from all around the world into the country. Another student is now is Pakistan but is from Yemen, and his description of the situation in Yemen is not much better. Tribal strongmen drive vehicles without license plates, and no one can stop them.
We ate lunch today at Café Greg. We also discovered the upper parking area, which is basically on the roofs of the stores all the way around the circle at the foot of the dome roof of Ice Park. I had no idea about this before!
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