Sunday, March 26, 2006

Conference month

In March, Cary has had the opportunity to attend two conferences for professional development. The first was a principals conference here in Sao Paulo. The second was a technology/library/curriculum conference in Santiago, Chile. He was thrilled that PACA was interested in sending him to this conference, since it meant that he would not only get to attend a great conference, but he'd get to travel to another country as well.
This is the school in Chile that Cary visited as the host of the conference. It is the largest American school in Chile with about 1200 students. They had over 400 computers at this school - most of which were Macs!
The city of Santiago is in a valley surrounded by mountains. We got a great view of some of those mountains from the school.
On the second day there, Cary and the others from PACA who went to Chile visited the center of the city. It was very interesting with street performers everywhere and huge buildings surrounding this massive central square.
I had to put this picture in for our friends on PEI. We have seen bottles on occasion in Brazil, but they use bottles for pop extensively in Chile - just like in PEI. However, I thought it was funny to see the pop measured in CCs. I have only known hospitals and pharmacies to measure things in CCs. "Nurse, give that patient 350 CCs of Sprite--STAT!"
On the way home, Cary had a window seat and got some great pictures of the Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina. Since he has never seen mountains bigger than the Appalacians before, this was quite a treat.