Thursday, October 2, 2008

Mexican Ingenuity

Normally you have to make things work here, because you probably don`t have everything you need. There aren`t a lot of resources. This past Friday we had a small birthday celebration for one of the telemarketers. Everyone pitched in to buy a cake and it finally arrives, but nobody bought plates or a knife. So, we use pieces of paper folded in half for plates, printer paper, and, to dish out the cake, someone had a small plastic knife to cut and a ruler to scoop it out. It actually ended up working fairly well; I just avoided thinking about what could be on the ruler while I was eating my piece of cake. It turned out to be a pretty good cake...even for me.

The other example happened in my English class, that same day. People kept knocking on the door because there was a conference in the next room and they thought it was in our room. The students made a sign saying "Do not disturb. This is not the right room. This is an English class." It was something like that. There wasn`t any tape though, so to make it stick to the door they used the gum someone was chewing. Not sanitary albeit effective. My examples aren`t the normal maybe, but it helps give you an idea of things.

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