last day incident & farm pics!~~

I am back to US, safe but sad as it was expected. The last few days in Argentina were amazing, more food, more time spent with my dear, a lot of progress with research and a not so little incident. What happened was that I mis-calculated my return day so it caused a conflict with my TA duties (I couldn’t teach on Friday) and this made my professor get mad at me, really mad. He not only sent an email telling me that he was very angry with how I managed the thing, he also forwarded the email to the professor who’s in charge of all TA’s which also caused him to send me a formal email warning me that I’ve violated university policy for TA’s and from now on I have to keep clean record, any other incident will make them to take away my founding for next year. Well, you guys can imagine how bad I felt. I am terribly sorry that I didn’t check my schedule better (I was so convinced that I was coming back on Thursday instead of Friday that I told everybody that I’d be back on Thursday). I know that it’s my fault and the professor has all the reason to be mad with me. But still, I’ve never thought that this could get so serious. But what is done is done. I sent email back to both of them to apologize and promise to behave better from now on. I don’t know what else I can do to make thing better. Any advice?
The incident made me feel terrible all Wednesday afternoon. But fortunately Star was with me and we talked a lot. He reminded me that sometimes we just needed to let it go. When things happen, we’d better look for the solution (in this case, have a good attitude to recognize my mistake) instead of regret what is already done. And also take a broad picture, what is this incident in my entire professional life? Nothing at all! I still have the funding, I still get appreciation from my advisors, and so nothing of my original path has changed. Then, why worry so much? This is just a lesson that I have to learn: double check schedule and avoid any conflicts.
I didn’t feel better immediately, but having all these positive thoughts present made the process of letting it go easier and faster. By next day I was already 90% recovered from the “little” incident. Once again, the power of positive thoughts is incredible and positive attitude is The key to face any obstacle in life.
Let me end this post with pics of the day I went to a private farm in Buenos Aires. The farm was from a friend of Star, it was HUGE, like 1000 hectares (2500 acres). They had 300 cows, 50 horses and the rest of it was soy. We spent the afternoon eating ASADO and other yummies, riding horses and just enjoy the wonderful view.
appetizer: cheese + chorizos + toasts
where they cooked the meat
a big salad
desserts: fruit salad + flan + dulce de lecho (typical argentinian sweet milk)
Then, Star's friend showed us the room where they stored all equipment to play polo
he also showed us some moves of polo
ME ready for some riding
Ready
we were a big group.. all families of Jack (Star's friend)
back and happy
I still have pics of some great eats. I'll resume my regular daily posts soon, meanwhile I'll keep posting pics from BA.
I have a long to-do list now... I'd better get moving! Have a great weekend everyone! ^_^