tamara's blog

  Christmas (the religious holiday or the end of year break, either way) is here- there are loud bangs all day and all night (as I was walking to the phone, about 4 electric workers gleefully lit a cracker in the street, setting off all the car alarms nearby..."another one, another one!"), Christmas trees are going up on campus, in offices (including public ones- no laws against that here I guess), there's one in the hallway of my house (a first for me), and people are having end of work and study dinners etc.

Librarians have a key role to play in their communities. This is one of the main ideas I got out of the closing forum of the book festival, and something I have to admit I haven’t thought about much, despite my passion for literature.

With the national youth conference, a planned coup revealed, students going back to uni yesterday, and the campaign to discuss the laws as well as for the elections heating up, it has been quite a week. 

Tuesday – My friend texted me that her

In order to build the youth team meeting in our community, we (myself and a representative from my branch) went through the list of 102 young people registered for the PSUV, and visited each house, systematically going up and down the avenues.

The first house we visited was really fancy- the kind with furniture

Wow, talking about a field trip just get a form, to elect the spokesperson for my youth team (that corresponds to my branch of the PSUV).

I had to go to the ‘sala situacional’ – kinda like a logistics centre, which has lists of all the branches, spokespeople, circumscriptions (group of 10 branches) etc. That was a bus trip away and I couldn’t work out which bus to get.

On Saturday, through another friend/comrade, I met C- and over yoghurt and fruit, we discussed starting the youth team of our PSUV branch.

He is a student who moved here from Falcon state, where his family is. He’s one of five siblings and he told me how his dad had 2 siblings to a previous girlfriend, left his mother when he was 10 and has another 5 kids by a new wife, but does nothing to support the other kids