Sunday, September 23, 2012
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Pickpockets in Barcelona
The conference organizers warned us that there were lots of pickpockets in Barcelona so I was pretty careful, or so I thought.
I carried my purse close to me and it is a zip up purse. Well, that was not enough. As I was walking along the street with a friend at about 6 pm, I suddenly felt something behind me and it was three women and one of them had her hand in my purse which was hanging my my side. I swung around and smacked her hard and yelled at the top of my lungs, "Get out of here," much to my own surprise, and she ran off. I was shocked at my own reaction but it worked. I must have been trained somewhere but I don't remember. Fortunately, she did not get my wallet, but she did get my little notebook with notes (hope she likes Open Education).
Meeting Einstein and Darwin
The Open Education Conference was on Monday and Tuesday and was a typical conference with lectures every hour. I am sure all of you would have been bored, but they were pretty interesting for me. It was held in a museum and I got lost and accidentally went down stairs and that's where I found Charles Darwin, just sitting in a chair in the museum. At first I thought it was a real person---then I got up close and figured it out.
Later I also found Albert Einstein sitting behind the desk at the entrance to the museum. He looked pretty real too, but kind of pale. He looked a bit anemic....of course he wasn't alive so it didn't really matter.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the conference changed locations to the Contemporary Art Museum which was not as nice a location but easier to get to. It was right in town.
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