I had a nice 45-minute walk this morning to tutor at noon, but when I arrived the address I was given was not there! I'm guessing that Carrera 6 was really Carrera 6A... or that there was some weird split... Oh how the mountains can screw up a grid system in a hurry! So I took a taxi home and eventually arranged to be picked up and dropped off by the family.
Tutoring went well. It's amazing how self-aware this student was about his not paying attention in class. Finally willing to focus, he caught on to algebra, graphing, and some computation quite well. I taught him the "Make A List" study method that I started using for myself in high school, and he was quite receptive to it.
The apartment was gorgeous, with a huge brick deck overlooking Bogota to the west. On the way home the father and I discussed Colombia a bit. He made a fascinating point that a huge reason for farmers growing drugs here is really the infrastructure. There are six big cities in Colombia, and some small but reasonably well developed towns. Outside of that, there are many tiny places with unpaved roads. One of the attractions of growing drug crops is that farmers don't have to figure out how to transport their crops elsewhere -- because people will come straight to them.
I also learned that Israeli coffee is surprisingly good!
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