Becca has been eating lots of calabasa (squash) lately...

Play by Play:
Meant to be read in the voice of a locutor de futbol:

Oh look at her go! First one colectivo, then another, then another! Count them 92, 99, 24, y 29!!! Becca has now successfully ridden 4 Colectivos. GOL!!!!!
And what a professional tourist she is too! First plaza de mayo with “don’t cry for me argentina playing in her head the entire time!” A tourist like none other! Then onto the obelisco! A tango class, the feria de san telmo, Evita's grave in Recoleta, and la boca! Can nothing slow her down? Will she ever start acting like a local? Stay tuned to find out!

AND the extranjera is doing the local thing!! What an unexpected turnover! Becca went to the konex to see the Babel Orkestra just like any Argentine her age! She eats empenadas like its her job. She drinks mate in class. MATEEEEEE. Did you hear that. The local drink! She stays up all hours of the night, goes to the local feminist protests, and moves on argentine time. We need to keep an eye on this newcomer. She is starting to really make a name for herself in this city.

Plaza de mayo always has veterans from the war of the Malvinas. They’re pissed. I need to learn more about this, but as of now it just seems like a territory war. That is so last century.

The oblesico is an obelisco. It looked like a mini Washington monument. Yay pointy monuments. Keep a lookin up.

The feria de San Telmo was like most that Ive been too. Nothing special. I think Ill stick with my local feria from now on. I did buy colored pencils for really cheap though! I was probably far more excited about this than I really should be.
La Boca was so beautiful and so tragic at the same time. On the one hand its painted extremely bright colors that excite the eye, on the other hand the materials that these bright colors are painted on is tin! Tin houses. It’s horrifying and the juxtaposition of the century. The colors were the idea of Benito Quinquela Martín a local artist and orphan.


The protest was really interesting! It was for the Dia Internacional de La Mujer and the holiday started as a response to women’s rights movements everywhere. A lot of the women wore purple – the color of the movement and had signs for various causes. Some were protesting the abortion law (its prohibited), others were protesting prostitution laws and attitudes, others gay rights. One group had a sign of women’s faces and the dates that they had disappeared! They were all post 1992! I don’t know if the women think that these women are desparecidos of the government or of human trafficking but in either case it’s despicable and personally horrified and shocked me. This is why I want to be an abolitionist. This shouldn’t occur.


What’s in store next for Becca? Can she keep up with the energetic argentines? Don’t change the channel to find out!!! But here it’s time for a pause. After all:

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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