Well… got to go…
Anyway… we went to go to Roldanillo. (Eider, Juan Josey & Me) Now Ive been left at an internet cafe and they will return later, hopefully exactly at the time when I run out of things to do on the internet. Internet here is cheap.
A situation occurred with one of the kids here. Hugo asked me to delete all modern music (disco music, rap, reagaton, heavy metal; the antithesis of harmony, classical and divine music) from the computers at YCEM. In the process I also deleted some videos and images of violence and violent cartoon characters.
I also made a few text documents with the new rule, that none of these songs, images or videos are allowed on the YCEM computers.
I also made a few text documents with the new rule, that none of these songs, images or videos are allowed on the YCEM computers.
However… the kid I mentioned did not give up and the next day tried playing his music on his cellphone. It is allowed to do so, but only with ear plugs. Everyone could hear the music he was playing. I tried to tell him that his music was prohibited. “Musica prohibida” “Parar tu Musica”… it didn´t give. He said "non entiende" at one point, but he did understand. He did actually stop his music for a bit, but walked away and continued it again as if nothing I said was understandable. A few half hours later I told Hugo what happened and he took it very seriously, a lot more then me. And he talked with him and it did become absolutely clear to me he did understand what I said. He lost like 15 points, or a whole days worth of good work. The points are an indication of how well you are doing and they help the leadership determine who gets raised in rank and who does not.
Hugo said this kid Josey and Pipe also would be running the club if they had not lost points through this. I´m not actually sure he was absolutely serious about that and now that I´m at an internet cafe, I can´t ask. I am at an internet cafe because I am downloading a file 189 MB´s big... and the computer at the foundation downloads at about 10KiloBytes a second when it decides to be stable. And the connection is not stable and last night there were half a second power outages that reset the computers and thus the download.
How loud and obnoxious the city seems. There is this moment a truck outside blasting commercials about blakberry with some terrible music, all very loudly. I´m glad it passes on, wait.. here it is again. Personally I´ve felt a bit frustrated because I was hoping to get some things happening that still have not. Like for example I want the rules for the kids to be hung on the walls and i mentioned it what seemed like a week ago. Altough, Hugo is always very busy... so I remain patient. Today he said a definitive date, Miercoles (Wednesday). If it isn´t up on the wall I´ll ask if I can try and get it up myself. Today one of the kids was playing prohibited music, and I had no rule to point to so that´s why this is bothering me. One little thing that also bothered me was that this music was played in front of one of the volunteers and that volunteer didn´t say anything... okay.. neither did. Not yet anyway.
About 15 of the older kids are involved in "Tienda YCEM" or "FLYCM". It is the little shop I will upload pictures of the instant it is opened. They seem to be discussing about it vigorously every day, but I haven´t been able to keep track of what it is all about.
I´m almost done downloading what i came for and Eider & Juan Josey are back.
¡Will type more later!
Bendiciones de Colombia, Sander
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