tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4885079076779896412024-03-18T21:52:20.311-07:00La vida en la CasillaIvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15326434752431321874noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488507907677989641.post-86430084035978722042014-01-08T14:18:00.000-08:002014-01-08T14:18:18.345-08:00On the road from Santa Cruz to Salta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Hi guys</span>,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">many days are gone since the last update of my blog. In the last days I was quite busy with the preparation of the Christmas time in Montevideo. We celebrated Christmas with the poor children of the are where I was working and they truly enjoyed it! Thanks to some donation we got, Santa Claus could exist for the too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">After this long bus trip among those deserted valley I got there...I got to Uyuni. I don't think the name will tell you a lot, at least I had never heard about it before but it was an incredible place. In Uyui you can see the biggest salt flat in the world. I don't want to tell you much about the place...just look at the pictures to understand why I found it so incredible :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Not to bad, isn't it? :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">After enjoying this impressive show of the nature, I was ready to get on the death train to Villazon. I don't know what the name satys for, maybe it's because the train was travelling (more bumping then traveling!) at 4000m across valleys and mountains crossing spots where you had the impression of flying because you couldn´t see the bottom of the hole we were passing by...an eventually...Argentina! I cross the border with no problem this time! I'm in the Jujuy region on the 1st of December 2014! UHM???? What??? Nein!!! Another time again!!! The custom officer didn't change the months when he stamped my passport...so I crossed on the 1st of January and on my passport stays now 1st December 2014 :( Unfortunately, when I noticed it I was already too far away...hope tomorrow at the airport everything will be solved politely...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">During these Argentinian days I could enjoy the breathtaking Jujuy and Salta area...always staying between 1000 and 4700m...a truly experience!</span><br />
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Ok. <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Unfortunately, I've to leave you...I was stealing a computer at the reception of the hostel I'm staying at, and now they are kicking me away...</span><br />
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Ivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15326434752431321874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488507907677989641.post-36314875957646206482013-11-02T15:03:00.002-07:002013-11-02T15:10:36.351-07:00Change of career!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Many days passed since the last time I could write a post. During these last two weeks I have been overwhelmed. I only had time for working and sleeping :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Let's start with a bad news...my career as a tango dancer is over for the moment. Juan, the teacher, had an accident and he won't be able to walk for 4 weeks and then he will need physiotherapy for 3 months...it was very sad to see him like this, because I know that he lives teaching. I wonder how he will do...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The good news is that I now started a new career: I'm learning to work with mud for building huts :) So I started a course last Friday. Our goal: to build a place where poor people can be attended with natural treatments like medicinal herbs or receive psychological help if needed. The therapist will work in the clinic pro bono. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> So we, 36 volunteer guided by an architect, started this adventure with a huge amount of positive energy end enthusiasm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The group: "100!!! Ivan, are you crazy! What on earth are you talking about??? You must be joking!!!"</span></div>
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was called to a new challenge! Tomorrow we will build a mud wall around
the "merendero" which is the place where we give to eat to the poor kids(like Franco, whom you see in the picture). On top of that we entertain them with different projects like theatre and lots of games :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The goal is to protect a little more the merendedero which has been vandalised a couple of time and to show the poor families how they can improve their barracks only using the things they can find around them! So far, all the kids and some women are working hard with us. We are missing the men power...we hope that our 40 volunteer who will come tomorrow will transfer some of their enthusiasm to the men of the Barrio! Anyway, during this week I was asked to help to coordinate all needs for tomorrow. I will only discover on Sunday if I did a good job ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As you can easily imagining reading this post, I survived the 3 days camp with my students. I left the house on Monday morning fearing the worst but I ended up living a great experience!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The adventure starts at about 8:00 on Monday the 7th, all on the bus and...no! Oh no! There is a teacher missing! We wait...15 min...we wait...30 min...we call him, no answer...45 min...we call him, he answers! "Sorry guys, I forgot to update my watch on Sunday..." (we changed to daylight saving on the 5th)...ok, we go, he will reach us later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We get to the camp at about 10 and we meet the second group of students. The camp is an idea of the government in order to reintegrate the young students who live in a critical context with (ours) with students attending a normal high school. Basically, they are 45 students of a sixth grade (diploma year like in Zurich), we are 27. I see they are somehow shocked at the beginning: our students are loud and, let's put it this way, use a colorful language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oops! But where is Carlos, the missing teacher? He should have been here by now! We call...</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Hi Carlos, where are you?"<br />"I'm at the camp!"<br />"We don't see you!"<br />"Neither do I!"<br />"Are you at Kiyu camp? Are you sure?"<br />"Kiyú? Ehm Kiyú..."<br />"Carlos?! Where are you?!"<br />"In a camp...well, I'll reach you soon!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Waiting for Carlos, we have fun playing on the beach!<br />The great thing is that our kids are playing with all the other one. For this one time they are all one, they are all just young people having fun together! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">...but incredibly, apart from a couple of strange noises typical of a night with 16 adolescents in a bungalow, and some pine cones flying in the bungalow...everything was perfectly fine and we could sleep 4 hours! (Much better than the 4 minutes I was expecting to sleep :) )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To celebrate the great day, nothing better than a huge fire! The day was fantastic, all our students took part in all activities. No violence, no provocations, no insults. Just a having fun! And the Durazno group having fun with us all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">But facing this new experience, I want to tell show you the first step of a project we started in the "Barrio", the place where our students live. As you probably remember from my pictures, they live in barracks, which for us is difficult to call home. The problems is, they don't have whether the money nor the knowledge to build normal houses. This is maybe going to change. Mariana, one of the nun living here, met a man who might be able to make a change. He is a man who builds houses made of mud.</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Mud is something which is not missing at all, so we can start changing our enemy (the mud that invades all the barracks when it rains) in our best friend!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Here students start primary school at the same age as our children in Switzerland. They attend 6 years of primary school before going to high school. Here the first difference. There is no other option than attending a high school for the they are obliged to study until the third year of high school. If you want to keep studying you can attend year 4, where all the children basically receive the same education and then year 5 and 6 where classes are pulled apart and then rebuilt according to the profile (scientific, linguistic, artistic,...). This systems generates very inhomogeneous classes up to year 4: in one class of 40 students you might have the future Einstein and Shakespeare as well as some students who can barely read their name, you might have very quiet and attentive students and some whose aim is to destroy the school and the teachers with it, or in the best case students who only go to school for socializing. What happens then? The students who can't cope with the system because they are slower in understanding or misbehave are expelled...and come to school like mine. Here they call it "Aula comunitaria". We are supposed to teach them the same topics they need to go back to high school and finished at least the third year. This is what we try to do. Here it becomes difficult...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In each class we have between 10 and 20 students, it depends from the day. The absence rate is extremely high. Today for instance we only had 6 students out of 20 in one class. All the students here have a very difficult life. They generally live in very big families with stepbrothers (3,4,6 up to 11!) with adults, who aren't mostly their parents. Others simply live on the road. In these first weeks I heard stories of fathers beating mothers, of brothers killed on the road, of sexual abuses, of girls who need to work as a prostitute to survive...the story of a 14 year old girl who is pregnant...the father is 15...I heard stories of children abandoned and beaten...the point is, these stories are their stories, these lives are their lives. And I have all of them in front of me... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So they come to school, can have lunch here and go back "fighting" to survive outside. Since they are little they are surrounded by violence, drugs, prostitution. The great majority of these kids have been to prison or have brothers who are now in jail. They have been beaten. Some of them are probably using drugs. To get to the crux of the matter: they live or have lived an horrible life which make them be tremendously aggressive or totally apathetic. Dealing with this situation in class is an enormous challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The typical class works like this. Generally, the students need 10 minutes to get the material ready, at least 2/3 of the class. 1/3 on average just keep looking at you or doing other things. So we start for example with an exercise: let's say, solve this equation...during the time they solve the exercise we (teacher) need to: hear provocation but not respond to them, ask 20 times to be quiet, avoid some unidentified flying objects, make some jokes, beg the student to copy what we are writing on the black board, beg the students to lower the volume of the music, try to stop them writing sms or calling friends...I forgot, we also need to lock the door of the class, otherwise we'll receive visits from students of other classes who managed to escape...after doing that, we can proceed to the second eq...ah no...there is no time left...45 minutes are over! So in 45 minutes we have lost one equation...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Anyway, apart from teaching them what we can, we try to help them with their lives simply making a cake for Carla's birthday for instance (she has long lived on the road...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">...or cooking some "tortas fritas" on a cold day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We can also spend some times playing with them...I think I was in a better position...even though I didn't manage to win because after taking the picture my opponent got slightly upset and all the pieces flew all over the place ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We also organize 3 days of camping for them. Monday we are off! We'll go to a beach, where we rented 3 bungalows and the students will have the occasion to escape from their routine for 3 days and have fun! So next week I will tell you how it was! After sleeping for a couple of day for recovering the 2 nights there :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I hope you are all fine! So the summer is over for you and spring starts for me...even though in Montevideo the temperature barely reaches 5 degrees...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It's quite a long time I don't write. The point is, I had some days off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Last week we had September holiday, so what an occasion for discovering one part of Uruguay! I couldn't miss it, so I left on Wednesday morning heading to Mercedes, which is a small town on the west. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The weather was beautiful and I asked all the people around to move away to let me take these pictures :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><br />As you can see in this picture, Uruguayan fight the heat of the summer days, eating with their legs in the water :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Once in Salto I could enjoy 3 Summer days. Salto is famous in Uruguay for its thermal waters. I just needed 2 relaxing day after all challenges of the school! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Not only did I bath though! I got to know 4 very friendly Uruguayans with whom I spent some times and who made me discover some part of the city. The most funny part was when they discover where I live...in "La Teja". At the beginning they thought I was working with kids of "La Teja" not actually living there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">As soon as they understood I was actually living there, they looked at me with widening their eyes in disbelief and started asking how it was to be there. Some of them have been living in the city for years but never dared to come even close to the place where I'm staying...So I was explaining them and showing them some pictures :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So let me know if you still want to visit me here ;). It'll be adventurous to be in place where even the people from here judge as a "no go!". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">But apart from hitting some couples which were on my (our) path and hitting a door and stepping on my partner feet 4-5 times nothing else went wrong :) But I don't have to give up! But yeah, it's more difficult than I had thought two weeks ago!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Good, I better go to sleep now because tomorrow is going to be another long day here! I hope you enjoyed reading this post and could laugh a little! Next time I'd like to write something more about my students and it'll be less funny but I hope equally interesting for you...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In last days I was busy with different tasks. In the school I was help some teachers giving their class. We generally split the students in two groups and try to answer all their questions. This is often a quite difficult task because the students are used to ask: "Teacher, tell me how to do this!". Basically, they are only interested in finishing as soon as possible without understanding what they are doing. So I always try to answer with an another question: "You tell me, what you think first, then I might help you...". They don't usually like this...it's very hard for them even to stop for a minute and try to think with their own brain...well, I don't give up, so as long as I'm in class either they start think or they get frustrated because I don't tell them the solution...One very big issue here is the difference which exist in the class. So in the same class I have students who can work with functions, others who can only use the four basic operation and others who need to calculate 7x3 with their fingers...this make the job of the teachers incredibly difficult. Obviously, we don't have the resource to split the classes in different groups, because we don't have the rooms and the teachers to do that...so Obama's slogan was slighty changed into; "Yes, we do what we can!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We are organising two excursions with our classes: 3 days in December.
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">But now, let's come to the title! It was time to get involved in the lifestyle of Uruguay. And in Uruguay there are two things you must experience: a soccer match and...tango. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So I started on Monday with my first tango class...and I was quite unsure about how much I would have liked it...Of course, I couldn't take a tango course for tourists and go dancing in an elegant and expensive dance school :-) . So I ended up going with two teachers of my school in a very old colonial house. The first impact was a little scary. I was the first coming, as a good "Swiss" should do. I got in the house, which was like a ghost house. With broken walls, strange decoration, candle lights. The atmosphere was somehow tense. In this house lives Juan. He is a young guy who lives renting some rooms in
the house and giving tango classes. One hour costs 50 UYU = 2 Swiss
Francs!!! Sometimes we say: "you get what you pay for". This sentence couldn't be more wrong in this case! Juan is a great dancer. He travels all over the world giving tango shows. Now two other teacher of this school are in Russia for instance for a show. Juan lives for tango. After decripting what Juan was telling me (he isn´t the easiest teacher to understand because he puts a lot of feelings in the dance!) I started learnig the basics with enough success and even more important, a lot of fun! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">The atmosphere in the stadium was very warm. All singing and jumping all over the place and when Uruguay scored some people almost cried! People were very correct. Each part of the stadium was encouraging its team. The Uruguayan and Columbian also collaborated perfectly when it was time to insult the referee. </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> This is the third most popular sport here :)So,</span> two nations, one voice: "Hijo de p...! Vos sós un hijo de p...". "p" stays obviously for Paraguay, the country the referee was from :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Let's start from the beginning. My day is basically divided in two parts: in the morning I help the math and the physics teachers to give their classes. The students are so different that in one class you can have one that is solving equation with no problem whereas the other one is having problem to calculate 3x8 or 200:20...so we split the class in small groups and I answer questions and try to make them think and not just try (as they tend to do). Apart from the fact that they still don't trust me (for some reason they think that Mathematics in Switzerland is different from the one in Uruguay) the rest is fine :-) Basically, when I correct them, most of the time they don't believe me and ask the other teacher and they typically end exclaiming: "Ah, entonces el Suizo tenía razon!". Just a remark: here I'm "el Suizo", "el Italiano", "el Sueco", "el Ruso" and sometimes "el Español". The children have some very general idea of Europe :-)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the morning I also have a second task...try to cover as many classes as possible, when teachers don't come to school, which happens quite often. Today for instance 3 of 5 teachers were missing...so I give some English, Informatics,...I hope the day I will be giving Spanish won't come soon, it might be a little difficult :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The students we have, have been kicked off or quitted the public high school for several reasons. So it's quite a difficult job to make them work. There are two different faces about the experience I'm doing. On one, there is the class, the things we are doing together at school. On the other, there is the reality in which they are living. You can't be working with them without having a knowledge of the second one. You won't understand anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That's why I started going out in the afternoon to see where they live and what they do. Well, it was something...So I cross the bridge and landed in a different world. I was where they are living...my students were still at school, so we organise a theatre with their younger siblings and play with them:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Playing is obviously not enough, so every Thursday some of the moms of the kids organise a market where they sell clothes. We bring them the clothes we get from donations and they sell them for a very low price. Customers are poor people who live in the surroundings or mid class people who can get clothes for a good price...With the money, the mothers of our students can buy food and other small things for them and their children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now, so that you can make yourself an idea about the reality my students live in, just have a look about their poor houses and surroundings...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As you can see, I don't risk to get bored. There is plenty of things I/we can do. Next time I will show you what I'm doing in the school, where I'm actually working most of the time! So keep following the blog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well, I let you sleep in peace now and I go to cook a warm meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Finally, I got to the place where I'll be living during the next 4 months: La Casilla in Montevideo. On Monday morning I reached the place and started to know the people who are involved in the project. I was very well welcomed from all the nuns and the teachers working in the "centro juvenil". From the first moment I realised that things here won't be easy...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Basically, we are working with 60 kids between 12 and 18. They got here for several reasons but most of them for they were not accepted in neither public or private school due to their poorness, aggressiveness, or due to their bad school achievement caused by their outrageous life conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They are divided in two groups: in the morning the one who would like to get back to a public high-school, who are taught typical subject like Spanish, Maths, English, History...the one who, on the contrary, would like to learn a job, come in the afternoon for learning the basics of some manual jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So far so good...the problems start now...these kids don't know the meaning of the word "House", sometimes they don't even know the meaning of "Family", "Mother"...some of them simply live on the road. Others sleep in barracks with no doors or windows, with their 6-7 brothers in a place which is smaller than the half of our classrooms. The don't have a floor...so they basically sleep on the soil which becomes mud as soon as it starts raining. Their toilet is "cup", which can be empty besides the house when full. So they survive there in the night and come to school in the morning...but the rules they bring and respect in the school are mostly the rules they need to respect "en la calle", as they always say. And these rules don't get on very well with the education we would like to give them. So it becomes normal for a teacher to see that from the 10 students in your group, 1 is sleeping on the table, 3 are just chatting about their private lives, 2 have no idea what they are doing there...2 are disturbing the...only 2 who are trying to do something, just for the sake of it. During these days I'm only attending class to observe and understand. Then I'll have to try to find my way to help them as far as I can...let's see...it will be challenging...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Letting all the difficulties apart, these first days have been very intense and full of interesting experiences, I'll tell you about them in the next post! Only three days are gone but for me is like 2 weeks...</span></div>
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Ivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15326434752431321874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-488507907677989641.post-59113969604138462052013-08-15T14:15:00.002-07:002013-08-15T14:15:44.749-07:00Stage One: Buenos Aires<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Hi! Here I am! After a 17 hour flight I got to Buenos Aires, which is my first stop. The city is so extended that even from the window of the plane I couldn't see the end of it. The first impact was quite "cold"...being winter and windy I was hit by the low temperature in the first place...not too bad though...I already got used to be back in winter, as in Zurich wasn´t much better until a couple of weeks ago :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Today I had my first intensive day visiting the city and discovering some dark part of the Argentinian history. I was surprised to discover that cemeteries are quite "popular" and very important here. Basically, the cemetery "La Recoleta" is the third most important in the world...guess where it is the most important one...I didn´t have a clue but I discoverd it to be in Italy! Well, I thought we, Italians, were famous for food and soccer, Venice and Rome, maybe for our fame of being "latin lovers" but surely not for having the most interesting cemetery in the world :-)...by the way, in this cemetery in Buenos Aires I visited the tumb of Miss Maria Eva Duarte, better known as: Evita Peron.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then it was time to walk to the Plaza de Mayo, where I could assist to one of the most sad but strong event which takes place every Thursday in Buenos Aires since 1977: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, walk across the square in front of the President house calling the name of each person, who disapperaed during the dictatorship of the militaries, which took place from the 1976 to the 1983. During this period of time about 30'000 people were arrested or kidnapped from the militaries and literally disappeard. These people are known here as "Los desaparecidos". Las madres the plaza de mayo started to investigate and make noise to force the generals to say the truth about the de</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">stiny of their children. They are still going on with their fight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It's a long night in Castel San Pietro. It's 1:30am and the temperature outside is around 30 degrees. Almost impossible to sleep, too hot...but not for long any more. Next week I'll fly away from warm Switzerland heading to Montevideo, Uruguay:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I'll spend some time there so I was thinking that it might be a good idea to know where</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I'm going and, on top of that, some of you asked me many times about the place where I'll be working once I'll be standing upside down. So after a quick search through the internet I found this article about the place I'm heading to! If you want to know more, just have a look at the following link:</span><br />
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