Finally Found Quebec!

The Delta Quebec at Night
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Apparently, if you enter Quebec, Quebec into the software, rather than Quebec City, Quebec, you actually GET Quebec City, rather than Montmorency Village.  So now there's truth in advertising!

Today was first full day of conference.  Short version:  speaker last night (whom I missed) advised that good talks rely on levity, brevity, and repetition.  Several speakers thus made jokes by repeating obvious statements several times followed by "levity, brevity, and repetition."  Funny once.  I'm not sure that he would be pleased to know that this is the bit of his talk that people came away with!

...and adolescent boys' brains shut down if they are faced with a scantily clad female.

Inside the Delta Quebec
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Other important points learned today:  Brain research shows that children are not wired for good sense.  Evidently pre-frontal cortex now not fully developed until 40 or 50--used to be thought 25.  Math teachers need to stop teaching math as if it were nothing but a whole series of steps to be learned by rote, and start teaching conceptual relationships.  (Duh.  I figured that out in high school myself.)  "Fanny" doesn't mean the same thing in Australia as it does in America, and adolescent boys' brains shut down if they are faced with a scantily clad female.  (Didn't need a conference for that one, either!)  There was a lot more, most of it a lot more original and useful, but if I dove into esoterica involving pedagogy, I would certainly be breaking all parts of the levity, brevity and repetition mantra.  So I'll skip that bit.

The Little Cafe Where nous avons mange
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My presentation evidently went well:  room was overfull, no one left until end.  Can't ask for more than that.

Went to dinner up the hill from the conference center; Quebec is in the throes of it's 10-day Festival d'Ete (Summer Festival), which entails lots of music in one of the nearby parks.  The streets there are lined with cafes, and the crowds gather.  No music of interest to me this week:  some band called the Pink Martinis.  Loud.  Noisy.   Placido Domingo is going to be here next week; more my speed, but too late for my consumption!  We ate dinner in the middle of all the fun, though.  Enclosed picture of a neighboring customer's beer, as it is hilariously large.  Levity but not brevity, and definitely no repetition!

Recognizeable Anywhere--perhaps not in this size...
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Took a walk up the street after dinner through the festival crowd and onward to a nice park.  Lovely evening, sat and chatted until dark (which is nearly 10 p.m.), then came on back.

Will do it all again tomorrow!

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