Riga - A Routine Day

I passed on the hotel breakfast and spent the first part of the morning researching cases for additional presentations, then stepped out into dry, clear (well, cloudy but no mist) day.  Enjoyed a cup of coffee and a pastry at a local kondittorei much more than lining up at the breakfast buffet in the hotel.  Walked more, shopping more than anything else, for last-minute gifts.  Passed a building sporting the Latvian and Icelandic flags, sign saying something about a “partnership.”  The halt leading the blind in economic terms, I thought.

And then back to the hotel for more fun with PowerPoint.  Class went well, but I barely made it with the material I’d prepared.  Worse, without time to edit and review, I saw gaping gaps in the outlines, areas where I should have made slides, and typos.  Still, the cases I selected provoked lots of student comment, and that was the goal.  Tomorrow is the last class before the exam and I'd promised to bring some celebratory libations.  They're already moaning and groaning about the exam.  I think they can handle 50 short-answer (mostly true/false) questions in 3 hours.