Bomb threats and the education system...

My host brother, Joaquin, has had bomb threats at his school since last Wednesday. There have been multiple a day, so that they have to evacuate each time and wait until everything is investigated until they can go back to school. One day there were 4 bomb threats. Elvira just didnt even send him to school on Monday because more time has been spend going in and out of the building than in class. Terrible, no? Its probably just a joke, but you can never take it that way.

A lot of the schools work on interesting schedules here, with different students going during different sessions. At Joaquin´s school there´s a morning, afternoon, and evening session. He goes to both the morning and afternoon sessions so that he has more time with each class and can also take French. As of a few years ago, a law was passed that every school has to teach English, so now if students want to take another language its in addition to English or through a private organization/school.

My class went well today in UBA. I´m almost done. Next week we have our second parcial (kind of like midterm?) and if I get a 7 or higher I get direct promotion and don´t need to take the final. So...that´s what I´m going for. I feel like I´m finally starting to connect more with some of the people in the class, which I´m excited about but wish it could have happened sooner since class is almost over. I was talking with 2 of the girls after class today though and we´re hopefully going to hang out after parciales and whatnot are out of the way. They told me that I definitely have to let them know before I leave.
I think I wrote a bit about UBA before, but in general it still just makes me laugh. Today we moved classrooms because there was construction or something that made a noise so loud no one could hear in the classroom. The walls are covered with posters and banners and graffiti. Lots of socialist propoganda. And graffiti paintings of Che. Not exactly Elon. That´s what I wanted though and it´s really interesting to experience things that are different.

Anyway, just thought I´d share. Speaking of classes, thats where I need to go now....