The photo above is of the new students and academics on the PUC Masters in Medical Physics on the first day of the course last week. This was the culmination of many years of hard work by Professors Beatriz Sanchez-Nieto and Paola Caprile. I am pleased that I can offer some personal involvement in the first semester of this exciting project for Chile and Latin America.
A quick update on my activities over the weekend. Saturday afternoon I was invited for a BBQ at the home of the Dean of Physics and her husband, also a physicist in the faculty. Also there were Beatriz and her family including her mother currently visiting from Spain. The afternoon was thoroughly enjoyable and a combination of the heat and the fine Chilean wine made it extremely relaxing.
On Sunday I had decided to go and watch the Chile Classic, a golf tournament on the US PGA nationwide tour which seems to be spreading its wings. The tournament was held at the Prince of Wales Country Club. The day started with a bit of confusion about the time, I woke up and was a bit slow and lazy getting going, it was a Sunday morning after all. At some stage I happened to look at my mobile phone and notice that the time was showing an hour earlier than my watch. No one had mentioned anything to me so i assumed that daylight saving must have ended and I was not as late as I thought. Once at the golf club I looked at the list of the tee-times of the players and realised that these times were in fact daylight savings time. Very confusing. Still not sure what time of day it was I spent the afternoon following the Aussie James Nitties and the American player Darren Stiles. Neither of them played scintillating golf and both finished some way below the eventual winner. Still, even watching a professional golfer having a pretty ordinary day is still a pretty good experience for us 20 handicappers.
Still not to sure about the situation with the time I went into the university on Monday morning to find the time on my computer had changed (to the same as that showing on my mobile phone). Apparently, for many years last weekend was the end of daylight savings, in recent years the government has pushed back the change into late April. Unfortunately anything computer based does not seen to be able to handle this change, so it seems that cows are not the only things in the world that struggle with time changes.
Last night I had my first Spanish lesson, not my first ever, I've been taking Spanish the last year, but my first in Santiago. So I will have lessons twice a week, I am hoping that what I learned previously will come back to me, its been a few months since the last lesson. I also have no excuses for not being able to practice.
More later.
Andrew
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