Greetings, everyone

_{Image of the Castillo San Antonio de la Eminencia (Cumaná's Castle) from the patio of the Ateneo}

School year has started here and we are trying to keep our daughter busy in the afternoons. She will attend HS in the mornings. As you know she is an artist (she can write, draw, paint, sing, dance, and play several instruments) and even though we have done anything in our power to encourage and reinforce her talents, there are very places in our city where she can develop her inclinations.

_{The Ateneo is the first house on the left. In the background you can see Santa Ines church, one of Cumaná's emblematic religious structures.}

We were told the local athenaeum had a good choir and neeed some female voices, so we figured that might work for her. She would mingle with her peers and educate her voice some more.

The place is not in its best shape, but there are still talented people trying to help youth find some sense of purpose; trying to infuse some artistic energy to this dilapidated town.

Among the few nice things we saw on the walls of this colonial house that is falling apart there was this painting by a local artist (J. F. Vargas 2003)

We found this cat in the entrance and had to give him some food. He was quite persuasive, to put it nicely.

My daughter stealing some minutes from the piano after choir rehearsal (she is not supposed to do that since she is not registered for piano lessons).

While we waited for our daughter I took some pictures around the former Pichincha square. The governor's "government palace" is just across the square

and next door we have the ruins of the administrative building.

_{Former Pichincha Movie Theater, now in ruins}

This building was burned by a group of protestors led by a guy I attended college with. He eventually became, under this mediocracy, mayor or the city and governor of the state of Sucre.

In 20 years they had not have the decency of restoring the building to its former glory.

For years they have been working on remodeling the square. This will go down in history as the most expensive remodeling with the least impact. More than three years have passed since they "inaugurated" it and we can't see much green grass yet.

On our way back I took some pictures of the sunset.

And the last one

_{All images from personal files, taken with a Blue R1 smart phone}

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