Blake and I participated in a 10K run around the port region of Buenos Aires near our apartment. The run supported the Italian Hospital and raised money for children with cancer. Later that day we went to a famous market on the edge of the city called the Feria Mataderos. It is located in a neighborhood called "Nueva Chicago" because there are a lot of slaughterhouses there for all the cattle (named after Chicago in the U.S.). The market had live music, traditional dance classes, food stands, lots of artisans, and gaucho races. The gauchos (Argentine cowboys) rode their horses full speed down a street covered in sand and tried to put a small stick through a ring (the size of a bottle cap). If they got the stick in the ring it would release from the string hanging on a support above them and everyone would cheer. It was really entertaining. The gauchos ranged in age from about 14-older and were dressed in very traditional clothing. We are headed back to the states for a brief time to see our families. We will be back again in January until the end of June.
2 comments:
everything that you are doing sounds like so much fun. your photos that you have taken are beautiful and your artwork is amazing.
ashley
Hi MR. Novotny! It is arielle zionts, do you remember me? I was in your art class second semester last year. Argentina seems really fun! Did you go to the cemetary in buenos aires yet? You should also go see a soccer game in the La Boca Stadium. There is a really great modern art meusam in buenos aires, but i forgot what it is called. i'm taking art again second semester and soccer conditioning already started! It is really hard but then I will be better for tryouts. The artwork you made on this blog is really pretty. I know you like music in other languages so listen to CSS, they sing in portugeese sometimes. i hope you have a fun sebatical.
arielle : )
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