Before the flight, it was nec­es­sary to take a PCR test for coro­n­avirus, and receive a neg­a­tive result of the COVID-19 test no ear­li­er than three days before.

In Ari­zona, there is a free pro­gram for peo­ple who do not speak or speak Eng­lish poor­ly. This pro­gram is fund­ed by the state and is aimed at pro­vid­ing lan­guage assis­tance to those with a res­i­dence permit.

Vot­ing pack­ages were sent by mail to every eli­gi­ble cit­i­zen. The pack­age was per­son­al­ized, large, and full of doc­u­ments. Vot­ers need­ed to choose a pres­i­dent, a can­di­date for the Sen­ate from their state, and local can­di­dates for city government.

As soon as Trump announced the quar­an­tine, (the school) Basis imme­di­ate­ly sent an email stat­ing that after the hol­i­days, stu­dents would not need to return to school, as online learn­ing would be orga­nized instead.

I left home urgent­ly, prepar­ing in just 3 days. The chil­dren learned that a new law was passed in the states stat­ing that with a Green Card, one can­not be absent from the coun­try for more than six months from the last stay, or it might be can­celed at the border.

We spent Inde­pen­dence Day vis­it­ing fam­i­ly friends. We rarely go out­side in such heat, but they always set up a huge pool in the sum­mer, where the kids hap­pi­ly frolic.

Pho­tos about the caprices of the local weath­er. This win­ter has been cold (by Ari­zona stan­dards). At the end of Feb­ru­ary, on the 21^st, it even snowed. How­ev­er, it didn’t snow every­where. In our part of the city, there was no snow; it only lay on the moun­tain tops.