- every year, my school hosts an event called the Caminata, which is a 'walk' through the neighborhood, usually to a park...a great time for families, but also a way to advertise for the school (picture loud speakers, school flags waving, and cute kids passing out flyers to people on the street)
- all teachers are required to come on this Saturday to join the staff in leading the festivities
- I think the event is fun for families, especially those with young children...only ONE out of my eleven 7th grade students showed up...they have cooler places to be, I get it
- this year's theme was "Literature" so on our way to the National Library's plaza, each of the two groups came across various characters along the way...the Little Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, etc.
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| exiting through the doors of Septiembre |
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| beautiful day for a caminata! |
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| ran into The Little Prince along the way |
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| Jake caught a pic of this kid's awesome shirt. |
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| "There's Cat in the Hat!" See the place in the back? BAkery? Yes, I pass this on my way to and from school everyday... the US $0.25 pastries are dangerous!!! |
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| Hey! There's the other Septiembre group! |
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| arriving at Plaza del Lector |
- once we arrived at the plaza, each teacher and student was assigned a character and an area of the plaza to dress up like that character (I was in charge of the Cinderellas...they were so cute! other characters included: Little Red Riding Hood, Tarzan, Spiderman, Dracula, Harry Potter, a witch and Mañuelita (Argentinean storybook character...a turtle)
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| all of the characters we picked up on our walk |
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| What character will we be? What's in the bag? |
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| Baby blue tulle...?!? |
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| ...princess crowns, sparkles, and lipstick?! We get to be Cenicienta (Cinderella)!!! |
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| mothers going to work...transforming their daughters into Cenicienta! |
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| that's a pretty good Spiderman! |
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| My only student who came got to be Tarzan. |
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| I think this is the turtle, Mañuelita? |
- after about 20 minutes the director called us to the middle to act out an impromptu play involving these characters (written by the 6th grade students)
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| "Cinderella came hopping by and greeted Little Red Riding Hood...." |
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| "Then Tarzan attacked...?" |
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| Harry Potter's hat fell down (check out the drawn on glasses in the bottom corner...awesome!) |
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| "And Spiderman tried to defeat Harry Potter but his magic spells were just too good..." |
- mind you, this was all in Spanish, but with Jake's help (I dragged him along), we got most of it
- everything finished up around lunch time, so we grabbed a snack (including my first submarino...steamed milk with a side of chocolate bar = hot chocolate)...
- then we made our way inside for a quick tour of the Biblioteca Nacional (National Library)...more odd and interesting on the outside than the inside...
- tried to stop at this store on our walk home...note the watch and closing time...classic Buenos Aires...cannot tell you how many times this has happened to me...hours mean nothing, even when clearly posted on the door!!!
- what's funny is this happened to us again later in that evening
- we wanted to "celebrate" ("good excuse to drink margaritas and eat Mexican food") Cinco de Mayo at a Mexican restaurant in our neighborhood that we'd been wanting to try...painted on the wall of the restaurant was something like: Happy Hour 4-8pm. We showed up at 7:50 and the guy said they didn't open until 9. AWESOME!
- so we went around the corner to a bar that was open (kinda...we were the only ones there) and got a couple VERY expensive, but VERY delicious Coronas, then went back to the other place for dinner at 9...food was decent, and we got our margaritas...
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| looks like the didn't have limes |
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| on the walk home, saw these cool leaves...decided to fan myself |
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