During the 1st birthday celebration of Che's firstborn, Joaquin, very much a baby, former office colleagues were on hand to grace the affair. I had an interesting conversation with Calois (pronounced as kal-wah) a stock trader who just completed Level 10 at the Alliance Francais.
"I have 15-year old classmates who are good, imagine that! And so even if I'm so tired and beat up from work, the mere thought that kids half my age might upstage me in class, would be enough to jolt me into wakefulness and study hard."
"The demand for French and Spanish in the BPO sector is so high, agents are paid very high premiums over the standard English-speaking agents."
I know, Instituto Cervantes has so many students nowadays.
Calois and Jenny, another office colleague who is so far advanced in her French, would be sending SMS to each other... in French!
Anyway, what I like about these European cultural offices is that they have a lot of activities, like fiestas (parties), free concerts, weekly movies and film festivals to enhance the learning experience.
By the way, it was my classmate in Spanish, Val, who introduced me to dragon boat rowing.
I'm thinking of resuming my language classes at the Instituto in 2008.
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