Patagonia

Patagonia Mosaic Worksite

A COUPLE TO CHECK FROM THE EDUCATION SECTION

Maria de Mendonca remembers, for example:

Mi padre ya trabajaba en Diadema. .... mi padre manejaba un auto para llevarnos al colegio. La mitad de año no iba porque nevaba o llovía o porque antes las clases eran en invierno. ... ibamos al Cañador Perdido, porque era un campamento de YPF. Era muy lejos.... Después, ya cuando empezaron a llegar más familias entonces Diadema pusó un coche para que fueramos a la misma Diadema, a la central."

(My father worked in Diadema....my father drove us to school. Half way through the school year we didn't go because it was snowing, or raining, or because it was before the classes were in the winter. ...We went to Canador Perdido because it (the school) was part of the YPF town (where they lived). It was very far....Afterwards, when more families began to arrive, Diadema provided transportation so that we went to the (school) in Diadema, the center) ____________

Jasmin Sanchez: A little curiosity, do you remember any poetry from school?

Tenorio Montes: Yes, there is a poem, Cuban.

       "Cultivo una Rosa Blanca"
       Cultivo una rosa blanca
       En julio como en enero
       Para el amigo sincero
       Que me da su mano franca

       Y para el cruel que me arranca
       El corazón con que vivo
       Cardo ni ortiga cultivo
       cultivo una rosa blanca

Josè Martí

Marcelo Borges: This is from school? TM: Yes, yes __________

AND, FINALLY, KALPACHIEFF Bueno aca, en la primaria teníamos de primer inferior hasta sexto. Ibamos a la manana de, de..cuarto..no de tercer grado a sexto, a la mañana, y de primer inferior a tercer grado íbamos por la tarder...apredían todo la primaria...todo la primaria..si..si..despues cuando fuí a la secundaria ya era industrial. Teníamos ..eh..clase a la mañana y oral digamos, y a la tarde taller, practica. ....cuando termine ahí, empece a trabajar enseguida, si empece trabajar enseguida hasta los 20, porque despues me fui al servicio militar.

(Well here, in the elementary school we had first to sixth grade. We went during the morning, from...fourth...no third to sixth (grade), during the morning, and the first to third grade we went during the afternoon. They learned everything of the elementary level, yes....yes, afterwards when I went to the secondary level it was "industry." We had...eh...classes during the morning and speech (we say), and in the afternoon the workshop (mechanics, electronics...), practice...when I finished there, I immediately begin work, yes I began to work immediately, until 20 years old, because afterwards I joined the military)

ENOUGH FOR TODAY. WE ARE SMOKIN' NOW!!!

FROM TUESDAY - HOUSING TODAY

Nelly Zupanovic: Ahí se participaba. Todos éramos amigos. Todos participaban. Fue fea esa época..porque los baños estaban en el centro del barrio, entonces la ropa había que ir a lavarla allá, bañarse había que ir a bañarse allá. Por lo general en las casas habían unas tinas de acero galvanizado, que creo que ahora ya no existen, y a los chicos nos bañaban en eso. Y después de este hicieron, dividieron de otras casas y dieron otra habitación más e hicieron un baño y ya ahí teníamos un patiecito. Ya cambio. Ibamos a la escuela que quedaría cinco, diez minutos ...

Nelly Zupanovic: Everybody participated, everybody were friends.(From previous talk about festivals) This wasn’t such a great time because the bathrooms were in the middle of the neighborhood, so you have to wash your clothes there, bath there. In general, the homes had a large steel tub...(I believe they don’t exist anymore...)....they bathed the children there. And after this they divided other houses, and built another room and made a bathroom and there we had a little patio. It changed. We went to school, about five, ten minutes.... ___________________________________

Elisa Babir: Astra Utilities Porque las casas que vivían nosotros, te daban la empresa, la casa, todo el servicio, no pagábamos nada, no había impuestos, ni luz, mira, todo te lo daba mira si se te rompía una lamparita, hasta te daban la lamparita. Todo diré de este, regaladísima.

Well, the house that we lived in, the company gave you that house, and all the services... we didn’t pay anything...there weren’t taxes, (not for) electricity, ..look, everything they gave you...if you broke a lamp, they replaced the lamp. It was wonderful.

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SLOW BUT ALMOST SURE PROGRESS!