After a crazy but very fun few days, Sunday was nice and relaxing. I was able to sleep in and do some laundry in the morning. The rest of the day was then spent wandering around the city and the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, people watching in the park for a long while (2 guys were juggling, reminded me of the old RIT room), and breaking for café con leche on the outside deck of a restaurant with some live music. The weather was again beautiful. I could definitely get used to this Cordoba winter.

Yesterday was also the day of primary elections in Argentina. Voting is mandatory, and the voting age was recently reduced to 16. Everything was shut-down by about midnight on Saturday night in prep for the elections. Roman and I tried to visit Paula, who was working at one of the voting locations checking people in, but it was an absolute madhouse. Definitely no calm line with senior citizens working the check-in, like most voting locations in the U.S. Here are some articles on the Argentine elections if anyone wants to read more: Election information, Interesting commentary on the primary election, Election results.

Today we had a meeting with the ADEC team to review and brainstorm themes and metrics to support the ADEC strategies. Overall, I was very happy with how it went. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I couldn’t get a good read on Raul and Jorge during our Friday presentation. Today I think Jorge was happy with the information we have put together so far. The suggested metrics sparked a lot of interesting discussion (most in Spanish, so I unfortunately couldn’t follow it all) and contained content the ADEC team had not thought about previously.  We have a lot more work to get done in the next few days!

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