Monday arrives blue. Another ugly day, those that don’t call for walking and vis- iting. Barely two days of sun out of the ten days of journey. And the news on the riots that are taking place in Chile force me to cancel the trip. My friends there tell me, earnestly, don’t come here, Chile is not going anywhere, in Barcelona they use rubber bullets, but here the milicos shoot live rounds, and having reserved in Lastarria hotel, I was in for trouble. It will cost me around 1.300€ between plane tickets and hotels, and I lose half the days of the journey… Santiago, Concep- ción, Atacama… everything organized and paid for. And I think of that song “I will step again on the streets that once were the bloodySantiago”… and I think I go to FADU (Architecture, Design and that the ones gone today are others, in Urban planning Faculty of Uruguay). The that enormous Latin-American capacity building is impressive with its exterior main to generate gone ones. Knowing what I hall and several patios. 6.000 students, know, if something happened I couldn’t like in ETSAB… I would have never im- forgive myself. We have wars of our own agined their vitality. There I meet Andres at home. I appreciated that Valeria’s fa- Cánovas from ETSAM, Conrado, Marce- ther (a Greek student I have two years lo Danza, the Director, Daniel Christ- prior) would come from Greece to sup- off, Franco’s partner, Natàlia, a young port the fact that Catalans could vote teacher from Porto Alegre, Daniel Minet- on October the first… Should I support ti, who has a daughter, Maxi, collabora- the Chilean people? People must be fed tor in Franco’s studio, Juan (he explains up to reach those limits. And, the more to me his thesis). We eat some pizzas and incompetent the people in charge are, a wine by the name of Trapiche, a Chile- the more they resort to violence to deal an bran, at the Mediterráneo. There are with social turmoil. Here and there. It si many gay pride flags, for a reason they true the desert will not move… The dead say, Montevideo calls itself the City of di- are the ones that won’t come back. I versity (surely, I think, the same flag was have no right to complain. used to protest the Iraq war). t3718