The title of my post is quite problematic, but I don't have much time for that now.
This is just a lil' update to let you all know I'm back within two hours of EST, and I'm loving this city. Until I finish my essay for "culture and society" class and have a moment to breath, I'll just tempt you with some pictures.
The view from my bedroom window.
I am staying a beautiful apartment in Recoleta, a rather upscale neighborhood near the center of the city. In the north. That's important- people in the north don't really go to the south, which is the more working class half of town.
See, it looks like NYC or something- the taxis, the bars, the fancy apartments...
Facades of houses in La Boca.
La Boca is one of the earliest working class neighborhoods in the city, with many beautifully painted homes. The barrio was home to an old port on the river, and the workers in the area would use left over materials and paint from the shipyard to build their houses. So you see the corrugated metal was used for siding, wood for flooring in the interior, and paint from the ships on the outside. The small space between the two homes seen above is left in order to prevent fires, which were quite common.
We visited this house, the light blue one on the right, because Habitat for Humanity is funding a development project that will allow 7 single family apartments to exist on the lot. It's an initiative to address the simultaneous problems of too many vacant, dilapidated houses (such as this one), and too little housing for the poor.
The bridge to Puerto Mardero.
This bridge was built by Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect famous for his bridges (he built the one in Milwaukee too), in 2001.
A taste of the colonial architecture. Check out the beautiful purple trees, they're everywhere in the spring.
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