New Friends Arrived From Argentina... April 17

It truly was a pleasure to host the Rotary "Group Study Exchange" from Argentina!  We have so much fun making new friends and spending time with them during their tour of Oklahoma.  They arrived in Cushing on Sunday afternoon (April 17, 2011) and we hosted a cookout at our house.  I was busy preparing, so I didn't take any pictures of the early evening.  But, I did manage to find time to relax and sit around and chat later in the evening.  Here are a few pics from my iphone just before dark.

Cecilia, Melisa, Daniela, Valeria, Matias

Willetta and Larry with, Gustavo

David visiting with Cecilia and Melisa 

Valeria and Matias with Sara

Cecilia Alonso is staying with us, she is an English Teacher.  Such a delight to have as a guest in our home... her English is excellent!!

Deb, Cecilia, & Dennis windblown from being outside at Reids.

They spend each day doing professional tours but we always manage to have some fun time in the evenings!  After touring the Cushing area on Monday, I caught up with them for an evening at Reid's house for a shrimp boil... again, I didn't take pics until later in the eve.

Matias, Gustavo, Daniela, Valeria, Cecilia, Melisa, Deb, Dennis

Cecilia found an opportunity to view Linden's text book

They took turns playing the guitar...

Matias played with Cecilia assisting in singing

Gustavo took his turn

The team listened as Mike played and sang

Sara made her rounds and visited with everyone...

Gustavo, Melisa, Sara

Sara & Daniela

Sara, Daniela, Valeria

Matias, Gustavo, Daniela, Valeria, Cecilia, Melisa

They continued their adventure on Tuesday and I managed to catch them for lunch and afternoon touring...

Just in time for a wine tasting...

We then had lunch catered from Joseph's... gotta love that touboulie!

Toured the facility... learning about the bottling machine

Tour continued...

Made our wine purchases...

Gustavo and Cecilia sign the Guest Book and then we head on our way.

We broke up into small groups and each team member went to see things of their particular interest.  Willetta and I took Melisa and Cecilia to the Cushing High School since they were both teachers.  They had the chance to visit the Jr and the Sr English Teachers along with the Spanish Teacher.

Nancy Miller, the Sr. English Teacher,
shows them some of her assignments.

...they view some text books.

We continued on and they had the opportunity to visit with the
Spanish Teacher - Jana Fairbanks...

...and talk to the students in Jana's class.
Jana and one of her students (Linder) met us at Rodolfo's that eve to visit more.

We ventured to the Filed House / Sports Complex

Photo with one of the Wrestling Coaches

Melisa, Cecilia & Willetta with Jim's Plaque
Jim managed the construction of the project
when the Fieldhouse was built

Cecilia & Melisa with Me
I served on the Board of Education for 10 years
and was a member of the board when the Fieldhouse was built.
So fun to be involved in such a great facility that serves our whole community.

...to be cont'd