Today is another full day of events for the group. As usual early start with a nice breakfast at 8 and shortly after weare lon our way to the local school od art. This holiday isnot only about Fair Trade and farmers, but also about seeing with your own eye how this works in Cuba. The school was a very nice sight to visit, its a boarding school with 100 students. The head master shows us around explaining us how the request for places is always very high. They also have two foreign student. The facility are well kept even and ok in the painting/drawing/pottery/printing side but the digital photography is a capital intense business and even if they have internet in the school, there are only 6 computers available to the one hundred students.
There is also to say that they use to have a professional digital camera but it felt off the hands of a student and now they have none. Art schools are a very expensive to run, but as all education in Cuba this school is free.
We left a lot of gift to this school, I think that interest for art is always a noble thing.
As usual we were late for the next visit as our group always asks a lot of questions. Our next stop is at the local maternity ward, a unique structure where pregnant women with any sort of complication are referred to by their family doctor. The place is located just in the town centre and they have 30 bed for patients, as usual we begin our session with three main figures working in this place; administrator, doctor and chief nursery.
We decided tonight to leave behibd the group and we enjoyed a night out for two. The restaurant was rather nice and central and then we went to "La Casa De La Trova" to enjoy some live music.
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