This is the day we've been planning for, preparing, for traveling for, and saving for. It's Ron's first day of classes. He prepared an opening speech for the students stating his name, title, position at Texas Tech and generally telling them how honored he was to be there. This, of course, was spoken in Vietnamese! He did a great job. I have the video on tape. The students chuckled a few times, probably because of his pronunciation, but I think it went real well. He simply wanted them to know he tried. The rest of the lecture, of course, was in English. The 1:00 class had about 35 students, mostly females. Then the 2:30 class was about the same. He delivered the same lecture twice giving them a preview of what he will be covering in the next 6 weeks and handing out the syllabus. I went with him to check out the classroom and I wanted to see for myself what the university looks like. I also wanted to take a few pictures.
His classroom is open-aired and not air-conditioned. He showed a clip from the movie "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson and it was a little bit hard to view because he couldn't darken the room. But I think the students made out OK though. After the second class, we walked back to the apartment and then he went back again for his 6:00 class which was for graduate students. He returned around 8:30 and I had ordered a carry-out dinner for us from downstairs. He got Shrimps and Squid with Vegetables and I got Fried Fish, Mayonnaise and French Fries. They were both really good. We opened a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc from Chile.
My foot is really swollen from all that walking to the University. I don't know what's going on because it didn't hurt this bad a week ago. The swelling on the calf is going down, but the foot is another story. I hope it isn't a stress fracture. I put ice on it, elevated it again, and took Aleve. Darn it.
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