Osmel Almaguer's Diary Archives

Buying School Supplies in Curitiba, Brazil

My five-year-old daughter will start school next year. It’s a public school. We don’t have to pay for her schooling, however…

What I had been wishing for, for a long time, is an electric bicycle. Not a motorcycle, nor a regular bicycle.

When I arrived at work—where Cubans and Venezuelans now make up the majority—there was euphoria, mainly among the Venezuelans.

Housing is a major challenge in Brazil. Some sources estimate a deficit of six million homes nationwide. Nevertheless, there are options…

The news about what is being cooked up in the upper echelons of the country surprised me in the early hours of Wednesday.

I have a beautiful 5-year-old daughter and the desire for another child. The rest are obstacles that my objective reality imposes.

Many Cubans suffer to some extent from “anthropological damage,” which theoreticians define as “damage to the human condition as such.”

With 12 days left before the opening of the downtown supermarket, the department heads were called in to take part in the final touches.

Thanks to the reports we get from the teachers, we learn about certain aptitudes & attitudes that our daughter does not clearly show at home.

The first time I heard the word “autism” was about 30 years ago, and I formed a rather different idea of what it was.