For everyone still living on the northern hemisphere and complaining about the cold winter arriving: I have to warn you that this post may cause some serious depression, because we had more than 25 degrees Celsius almost every day during this week. I have made use of those sunny days to take some photos while going out for running (much training since the “Tandilia” race is on Sunday 18th) and uploaded some of them at the end of this post. I hope you can at least get a small impression of how beautiful Tandil really is ….

This is true at least as long as there are no protests against the (in my point of view very arrogant, now that I understand Spanish much better) president Christina Kirchner and her government, for instance like yesterday. The so-called “8N” (the “N” stands for November) demonstration didn’t only fill Buenos Aires’ streets with up to one million persons, also here in Tandil the whole central place was incredibly full of people! Concerning the different political reasons for these protests I’ll just refer to some articles from British newspapers:

The Telegraph: Hundreds of thousands protest against Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner
The Guardian: Argentina protests: up to half a million rally against Fernández de Kirchner
Mirror News: Argentines take to the streets in biggest anti-government protest in a decade

Regarding my studies until now my exams have gone very well and only a few finals are still missing. We also don’t have regular classes anymore, which makes the current life rather stress-free and helps to concentrate on the important things like playing beach-volleyball or eating delicious ice creams (of course with “dulce de leche”). And I had a great seminar about cooperatives and sustainable work in the computer science domain, among others with the French-Argentine socially responsible software developer, Niv “xaiki” Sardi.

Concluding this post I must admit that right now reviewing my blog makes me a bit sad and I cannot realize that the end of my stay is coming so quickly! Where did the time fly away? Hard to accept that the days have gone by so fast

Fortunately there are many more nice experiences to come soon and I’m looking forward to all the places I’ll visit during my world trip. And I definitely won’t miss the frequent power failures and Argentina’s horrible internet connection, although I’m not quite sure whether it will be better in the rest of Latin America ….