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Regenbogen:
(((((Fcrate)))))  :D
Glad to see you back here! I hope you are well. The mulberry tree sounds nice.
Our apples will be ripe in late August or early September, depending on how the summer was. The plums are also ripe in late August. So there will be cake, cake and for variety also some cake, lol.

I have a new bicycle, and when I have the time I drive around a lot. Today I was lazy, or better to say: I didn't trust the weather, lol.
Mini is at a festival with friends in the next village. June and July (especially July) are always packed with different kinds of festivities you can attend. Often several at the same day. Last weekend there was one almost directly in front of our house. I went there for the start to say hello to my former marching band, wanted to hear what the mayor had to say and to see if they have something nice to drink.
They did and I bought a cocktail. After that I walked around a bit and tried to decide where to sit. It was rather full with people, but usually there is akways room for one more person. But I couldn't decide where, so I just went home again with my cocktail, enjoyed the peace hidden behind the house and brought back the empty glass later.
On the next day the whole family went there for lunch, as did all our neighbours, because why not? No need to cook yourself, yay.
Tomorrow we will be at another festival at the river. Probably they will have fish. The plan is to have lunch there too. Maybe I'll eat some fish or maybe they have salad or other non fat stuff.

Dina:
(((((Fcrate)))))))
I am so glad to see you! I wondered a lot how you were doing.
Excellent about the mulberries! Not about your weight though, I wish you the best for getting rid of the extra kg. I do have a lot of extra weight, but I do not feel like talking about it right now.
I have been well, quite busy. And luckily I was confirmed in my position at the university so I am very happy. Unless I do something really, really wrong I have a job for the next 3 years. I am also finishing the semester now, so I am planning the exams and things like that.

((((Regen)))) That is hilarious about the festivity in front of your house. I hope you have fun in today's one and in the rest of your Summer  :)

Fcrate:
Glad you're both OK.
@Regen: Healthy food sucks. The whole point of eating at a festival is to get the deliciously lethal fried foods. I can never resist eating fattening stuff, when they're available. For example, a month ago my sister came from USA on vacation, and she got me about 1.5-2kg of various delicious chocolates. I ate them in 5 days, and that's me controlling myself. The only way I can lose weight is to deny myself access to any of that.
@Dina: That's great about your job. To be honest,  it blows my mind that you have such high standards for teaching positions, and it bodes well for your country's future. Here, you're a TA until you get your PhD, then you're job is safe for life. At least in public universities.

Dina:
((((((Fcrate))))))) It is ironic that you said that about public universities right now. Just yesterday there was some outrage because one of the most viable candidates to be our next president has said that even when Argentina has a lot of universities, some of them are empty and 50% of the students are foreigners. None of those things is true, and the latter is a racist-fueled thing, because she is not worried if we have German or Swiss students. She is worried because we have Colombian, Venezuelan or Peruvian students. And even if we had so many Foreign students, that would not be a bad thing. It is true that in the last few years the number of foreign students has raised but that has to do with the situation of the country. We are so poor that is economically easy for our neighbors to come here. And we have a good and free education. But in other years, when the cost of living is not so cheap here for foreigners, they do not come.
I had several foreign students this year. Some were really not good, some were excellent. A few abandoned my classes. I hope the remaining ones do good in the exams.
In my university specifically, the idea is that you can be a student TA, a TA when you are a graduate, a thing I do not know how to translate but it would be like Head of the Assistants when you have a Ph.D., and a Professor when you also have several years of experience and a good enough résumé. Problem is...we have more Doctors than Professor and Head of the Assistants positions, so most TA are Doctors too, at least the full-time ones.
I have a ph.D and I've already been a Head of Assistants for some years. It was a part-time job while I also had a researcher position that did not involve teaching. I tried to be a Head of Assistant in a full-time position (research+teaching) but I could not win (it was quite competitive) so the last times I applied for full-time TA again. And that is what I confirmed this year. So yay!

Regenbogen:
Hey, weird people!
How are you.
I was very busy again. But now I hope there is more quiet. It's always like this in July. Everybody wants to squeeze their stuff in before the summer holidays. I had to work last weekend and this Sunday I'll take over the shift of a colleague who is still too sick to come. But Saturday is free. I hope to be able stay in bed long and maybe go biking or swimming during the day.

My knee is still bad, though. The other doctor said it needs surgery. OK, at least I know now. There is still swelling and I can't walk properly.

Micro maybe needs glasses now, but the doctor wanted to make another test in two weeks to see for sure, if she can still go without. It wouldn't be so bad, we all wear glasses. And there are nice ones these days, one doesn't have to wear the uglies like in my youth, lol.

I often didn't wear mine, because they looked ugly and they were heavy on my nose. Only for school when I needed to see. On other occasions I rather went half blind.
Like once I was at the fair with some friends and the others wanted to shoot with guns to win prices. They insisted I shot too, but I didn't even have my glasses with me and could only see funny colours. Surprisingly I hit some by chance, so we still won some sweets and a stuffed animal.

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