By Nike
HAVANA TIMES – I want to tell you about some of the things Cubans are talking about the most on the street today. Repetition of subjects and the places where these comments are made might seem boring. But they both form part of everyday reality here in my country. There’s no chronological order to these comments, I’ve been noting them down in different places over this month and I’ll share them with you exactly as I heard them.
A few days ago, on the corner of my block, a mother told another mother that she hadn’t sent her son to school because she didn’t have any bread to feed him breakfast.
At a bus stop, two mothers were talking about new school uniforms. One mother told another that she had had to go into the school and argue with the principal because they’d been driving her son crazy by telling him constantly that he needs to go in with a new uniform. She