On the back of a great day exploring a couple of Mexico city's many tourist sites Hutchy and I settled down (grande "Sol" cereza in hand) into one of the comfortable couches at our hostel. After a few decent mouthfuls (we had earned it after walking a solid 15 clicks today) and chatting with a couple of fellow travellers our minds drifted back, reflecting over the past two days of travelling we have had together. A few more minutes later and we had decided our trip needed more than just simple chit chat accepting the good and bad..... thus with Phillip from Belgium guiding our judgement we devised the "Viva La Trotter" (named after our enjoyable experience visitng the
Leon Trotsky museum today) Daily scoring diary.
The way it works is simple, there is a differential of 5 points:
- 2 points for a big win
- 1 point for a win
- 0 points for a draw
- -1 for a loss
- -2 for a bad loss
And we have agreed on 7 catergories (each to be rated as per the above "Trotter" system):
- Ripped Off (Can work in positive if we get a good deal with anything involvling cash)
- Expectation (of an event.... does it fulfill, or do better?)
- Random Luck (good or bad)
- Food (is it tasty or foul)
- Social Interaction
- Local Interaction
- Language (Como mucho Espanol did we prender?)
Each day we are both to "individualy" write up our scores (with a short comment) for the previous day, then we tally it up to get our score for that day....
Every couple of weeks I'll post up the running scoreboard to this blog.
Luego amigos...
PS After day one I'm winning with a -1, Hutchy had a -2 (he didn't learn enough Spanish)
8 comments:
Did you catch up with the ice pick that killed Trotsky?? - located somewhere in Mexico maybe their CSI museum.
Hola - Hope you both enjoy your homestay!! Hasta pronto from Rye!
I love a competition, but correct me if I'm wrong, because if
as you say "Each day we are both to "individualy" write up our scores (with a short comment) for the previous day, then we tally it up to get our score for that day....,"
then after 13 cerezas, I can't see you two remembering much at all.
Kman.
A query...
if you of you gets bitten by say a tarantula, a scorpian or even a rabid dog (or perhaps by one of the other countless deadly creatures in Meh-ico)... how many points would that score? Surely it would have to be in the negative?
That is a good question "Creature lover".
I would say that situation would fall under the title of "random luck", and yes I would most likely score it as a negative 2.
The other day Hutchy slipped over and twisted his ankle, he put that down as a negative 2 under "random luck".
Ok Tim.b you have satisfied that query...
but what happens if in fact one of you get bitten by a rabid dog and you decided against gettign a rabies shot before leaving Australia? Surely that would need a whole new category .... perhaps you could score it as negative 2 for "too little too late"??
Ke tal Guess you have both graduated from SCHOOL and no more problems with the spoken word mastering demasiado caro, mas economico,no me gusta and echamos un alipus/trago for Christmas!!!!
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