Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Math is for young people

Ok, today is Tuesday. I know this because my pill box has told me so. I had one person ask me "so what's the temperature there"  I can't say because I have become math deficient in the past few days. Convert dollars to Argentinian pesos...$1 x 8.5.      Now switch brains and change dollars into Chilean pesos....$1 x16.  Take a cab in Chile and it will cost 18.500 pesos........how much is that ? Who knows it's all Monopoly money at this point. When we got Valparaiso, we had no Chilean money for a taxi. AL gave a fistful of Argentina pesos to the money changers and got a fist full of Chilean peso back.........what was the exchange? Who knows.

Today, when we purchased our return bus tickets to Mendoza, it took AL and I  fifteen minutes to figure out what time 21:30 was ( important because that's when the bus leaves). " it's 11:30 right" "I don't think so.....isn't midnight at 24 hundred?"  "Then maybe it's ten thirty" "let's write it out of paper.....1 o'clock = 13. Two o'clock = 14............................21:30.........there it is 9:30."      

 So to Cheryl who want to know how hot it is .......it is 26.667 Celsius. You will have to do the math.

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