cultural differences

I am so tired, and so busy. But I have to share this one.
Just to set the stage. Jorge is from Peru, Peter is an American who has lived in Holland for the last 3 years, Gardar is from Iceland.

This is a set of emails from three of my classmates. Make sure you read the chain of emails from the bottom up. Notice the date stamp on the emails. I really like Peter, but people ought to just observe other people's culture a little bit more. This is the exact reason why people should travel. Ignorance is not bliss.

P.S. Someone I know actually got married on April 23, 2005.

Sorry Peter but I don’t know if you noticed that we are in Europe and the date format is: (dd/mm/yy) J
So I only hope not to receive this unique event in my study room …
Cheers

Jorge


De: Klug, Peter [mailto:Peter.Klug@imd.ch] Enviado el: Miércoles, 03 de Mayo de 2006 08:51 p.m.Para: Gardar Gudgeirsson; MBA Participants 2006*CC: hklug@catalystinternational.comAsunto: RE: Two minutes and three seconds past one

Sorry Gardar to ruin your unique event, but this actually happened 29 days ago on April 5th. Too bad you missed it.

01:02:03 04/05/06

For those of you who don't understand tune in next Tuesday to the IPE presentation.

Peter

From: Gardar Gudgeirsson [mailto:Gardar.Gudgeirsson@imd.ch]Sent: Wed 5/3/2006 8:47 PMTo: MBA Participants 2006*Subject: Two minutes and three seconds past one
Dear all,

Please pay attention to your clocks two minutes and three seconds after one o’clock tomorrow morning (tonight), because for exactly one second, the time will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06

Don’t miss this unique event; you won’t have another chance until May 4th 2106.

Gardar