Take a Tour of the Old City with Me

I decided to do two entries in a row because I am eager to put up photos and what’s more, I have a lot of free time since for the last two weeks there have been strikes at my public university so I have not been able to go. As I drank mate yesterday afternoon and chatted with a former professor of psychology from the university, I learned a lot about the strikes that are going on this year. They say this year will be a pretty bad year of striking in the education system.

Some years are worse than others, this year the faculty is asking for a higher salary and improved classroom conditions. What kind of conditions? From my matte chat, I discovered there might be some 1300 students in the psychology master’s program and they are all supposed to fit into a lecture with a capacity of 600. There is not enough room for all the students, not enough finances for the materials etc and the teachers are underpaid. And I thought ASU had difficulties!

Also on my time off I took the opportunity to take some photos of the Old City in Montevideo. I was told this part of the old city that you see in the photos is more developed and remodeled than other areas. For now, I’ll call this slideshow, “part one” of the old city. In a couple of days I hope to show some other areas of buildings that have the same antique appeal but are abandoned or just beginning to be bought and redone. (So let’s hope for another strike tomorrow and I'll take more photos!) It surprises me how many people from Canada, the U.S. and other areas have come down here to buy up some of these old buildings and begin to remodel them. They definitely have good taste in places to live,Uruguay is a diamond in the rough.