Bob took me to visit Attistiba the "Social Work and Social Pedagogy Higher Institute called Attistiba where he is teaching for the Fulbright Award. He has finished his first 3 day intensive course on Social Work Ethics and will teach it again several times in various formats. He has a translator who does a superb job. Juris first translated all of the power point slides into Latvian, translates with Bob during class, and then helped him translate the open response answers to the exam, a lengthy process. The technology worked without any glitches.
The institute is a cheerful bright two story building. The flower plantings outside are lovely, marigolds, begonias and some foliage plants. The walls are warm colors, yellows and that southwest kind of clay reddish/orange tone. We ate in the cafeteria and I had gulass, kartupeli un bietes salati un udens all for about 2 Ls, one dollar. Yes, our Laviski is focusing on food words at the moment. I had a meat stew with carrots, potatoes and a cold beet salad with water to drink. It does help to know some German since occasionally a word like kartupeli sounds like kartoffelns which I happen to know...It was all delicious. The words I write in Latvian are not exactly correct since I haven't figured out to put Latvian fonts on the computer, so I am missing the marks over and under some of the letters. We took the tramvajs back to Riga center, the institute is in pardaugava, over the Daugava River from Riga center and then walked the blocks to lacplesa 29. A good day.
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