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Well, the fiesta in our house was a smashing success. I estimate there were probably close to 80 people in the house at one point (around 3:00 AM). My choice in music was a hit, 2 extra trips to the kiosco were made, and some people even wore costumes (one guy, Rafael - Mex., wore a great clown outfit). Pictures will be posted later. Last night, after cleaning the house (well, paying a neighborhood lady to clean the house from the 1 Peso donation we took up from everyone who attended the party all of the housemates (Niko, Regi, Carlos, and I) had an asado with an excellent assortment of guests. Niko brought Sabrina, Regi brought Jose, and I brought Cyrielle. It was a great evening - la onda en la casa es re hermosa. I had my first drawing class today (this is a different class than the drawing class I previously mentioned). The class accompanies the painting class I took on Wed. The ladies in the class are awesome - in the midst of the class they started doing yoga, everyone is always talking, they all ask me crazy questions - it’s fun.On a political note, La Nacional (the public univ.) students and the professors are on strike because the profs aren’t paid enough (yet the students aren’t fighting for an increase in their tuition costs because “Education - Free & Public” is the group-think idea here). The building for the architecture students happens to be on one of the busiest streets in Cba (Av. Sarsfeld) - so guess what?!?! They love to throw protest marches and block half the street. A couple of weeks ago, there was a march with 30,000 people on Friday afternoon. Drums, banners, loudspeakers, i.e. a living breathing social movement (I have been told that the majority of Arg. social movements come from Cba - large student pob., leftish gov., etc). We will wait and see what the government does as they are refusing (for now) to raise the profs salaries. Here is my suggestion, right now La Nac. students pay 50 Pesos per year (!!) to attend the university - if the students (who are the vast majority of those marching) want to raise the salaries of their professors, let them pay for it via an increase in their 50 Peso student fee. Of course, this won’t happen becauseA) it goes against the idea of a “free” public university system (which, of course, isn’t free because EVERYONE, not just the currently enrolled university students, pays for their ENTIRE LIVES via taxes the cost to maintain this “free” system)B) it is logicalC) it would cut the legs out from under those on strike (or at least make them see the real cost of their demands)Thoughts? Click the comment button below.

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