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Dina:
Hello! I like that you posted, even if it is to say hello.
And I bet things are beautiful with the snow now. I heard something about the beginning of Spring being quite cold in Europe.
We are having rain and wind. More wind than rain, so it is not a pleasant day. But it is not cold.
I am sad because my football team lost yesterday against its classical rival. The worst thing is that we did not play well. Sigh, well, on Wednesday we have another match, in another phase of another Cup. Sports life continues.

In a serious note, tomorrow we have a manifestation in defense of public education. I hope it is massive, we willl see. Our president is reducing the resources for education and other things. I will not say more because real lfe politics are banned here, but it is an important thing and I wanted to mention it.

Fcrate:
Hello everyone!
Just checking in on you! I hope everyone is doing alright.
Spring is here, and it's very hot. Looks like this year is going to be even hotter than the last. 43 celsuis today, 42 yesterday.
On a more positive note, the unseasonal heat made my mulberry trees ripen early, so I've been eating the berries like a pig for 2 weeks now, getting happily fat :D I can't resist these babies when they're fresh off the tree. There's something extremely satisfying about picking a fruit and eating it in the same motion.

Dina:
Hi Fcrate!
I am so glad you are here. And I also because you are doing well and enjoying your mulberries.
Here is coldish with occasional rains. I will leave for work in a while and I had my warm jacket ready.

I wanted to tell you that the protest I mentioned in my previous post was a success, with lots of people in the streets. I won't say more, except that we had a good weather that day.

Fcrate:
I gained 3 kg so far, but those succulent mulberries can't be denied :D
Had a visit from my uncle and his family. They live in the US, and it's the first time he'd returned in 22 years. I did see my cousins, who I haven't seen since we were kids, and it was nice to reconnect. My cousin's girlfriend also came, and they told my family that they were married to avoid religious outrage (or at least extreme discomfort) but I understood the relationship right away, and kept tormenting them about it for the whole evening. Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. :D
I'm glad the weather was fine on your protest. How easily can you protest over there? Here it's illegal, and the police would immediately treat you as hostiles if you do so.
Are they trying to commercialize education in Argentina or something?

Dina:
 :) I can't believe mulberries make you gain so much weight  ;D

I am glad you had fun with your family.

Protests are legal here (of course, unless you begin throwing stones or something) but this government is particularly obsessed with free transit (as in nothing can stop you driving from one place to another), so if you cut the streets and stop the traffic, police will try to coerce you to move with more or less strength according to the situation. But in this case, it was really too many people, so the government OF THE CITY  decided not even try to stop us and let us manifest in peace. It was a good day.
National universities are "free" here (meaning, we all paid for them with our taxes). I am pretty sure this government is trying to make them private or at least paid, but for now they did not said that. They just tried to give the universities the same budget that last year, even when our annual inflation is more than 100%.  They also suggested that some workers will be fired. And they intend to do more controls that they are established by law. Basically, they were drowning the universities. Now, before the protest (when they suspected it would be massive) the government granted some money to the universities, but it was not enough, so we did the protest anyways. And it seems that it worked because it seems that more money will be coming soon. (They are also making a more or less covert campaing in social networks, trying to make people think that the lack of money is due to a poor administration by the universities authorities and because of the foreigners who study here. Xenophobia is always stalking).

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