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Published: March 1st 2010
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Our eight day stay in Buenos Aires is about to end. We had a wonderful time here. The weather was great; it was such a relief after Brazil's heat, to be able to walk in the shady streets here day and night without being too hot. The boys will tell you about a few of the highlights:
Amit: "The zoo here was amazing and special. It was special because unlike some other zoos, some animals were not in cages. Five animals I liked at the zoo were buffalo, llamas, mountain goats, otters and snow leopards. I liked the buffaloes because they are very beautiful , I liked the llamas because they are very graceful , I like the mountain goats because I fed them , I liked the otters because I always wanted to see one, last but not least I liked the snow leopards because they are cool. Another day we went to a science museum. It is called "Prohibido No Tocar" - Forbidden Not to Touch!"Three things I saw there were a machine which is capable of turning 2d projects into 3D projects by making them spin really fast, a machine that if you pedal it it will make
lights turn on and a chair with a rope that you pull yourself up in. We also saw a graveyard that looked like a palace - the graves are the size of houses . We went to a grave of a very famous woman in Argentina called Evita Peron. Then we went to a market outside the graveyard and wandered around and around. The food highlights here have been Empanadas and Ice Cream - better than Italy!"
Shakked: "Argentina is awesome! The food is, at any rate. I will tell you about my three favorite delicacies so far. The first is obviously the ice cream. It is better than Italy, or at least the dark chocolate ice cream is. That was my favorite flavor. The second is alfajores; these are are a kind of cookie sandwich covered with chocolate and filled with a sweet jelly called dulce de leche- candy of milk. Last but not least, the empanadas - these are loaves of heavy bread filled with chicken, sausage, beef, cheese - anything you care to mention. All are delicious!
We went here to the local zoo. It was the best, and incidentally the cheapest, zoo we had ever gone
to. The animals came and went as they pleased. It was not rare to see a hare or a land-bound bird roaming around the path, or an otter swimming in the moat around a monkey's island. Once, when I ventured close to the glass wall of a lioness's enclosure, the female lion snarled and leaped straight at me. I fairly jumped out of my skin, though I had no reason to. Just before she reached me the lioness crashed into the wall, and there she stayed, snarling and showing her yellow fangs while battering at the walls with those huge paws who could easily snuff my life out with one blow. Another time we came across two squabbling baboons. Two young baboons were fighting an older one for leadership. However, the the young ones were also fighting each other. One of them came into the other's territory, where he was frolicking with his mate. The intruding baboon stuck his butt into his enemy's face. It was hilarious."
Shakked also mentions: " I never noticed just how much Greek Mythology affected the world until we went on this sabbatical. Every place we have been so far has had at least one
Mafalda's great sentence
"When all things come to an end, humanity is nothing more than a meat sandwich between the earth and the sky" Greek Mythology statue, picture, or book. It's amazing, really, how one culture can be spread so widely. For instance, there were Greek Mythology pictures in a science museum we went to, Prohibido No Tocar. It was fun and educational. Activities included a radar, a water filled Pythagoras triangle, and a tank that showed wave patterns. There was also a room crammed with wires, switches and light bulbs - obviously about electricity. There was even a place to pedal a bike, which lit up a panel of florescent light bulbs. You could also fool around with siphon, pendulums and pulleys. The day after that we went to a breathtaking graveyard or cemetery. If you did not see all the plaques, dedicated to the deceased, you would have never known it was a graveyard. The graves were not graves at all- they were huge domes or cubes of white marble. All over them there were statues, flowers, and beautiful engravings. There were thousands of them, stretching out endlessly like a vast sea of white. It was beautiful. On Sunday we went to a huge market. It must have stretched more than a mile, with stands on the streets selling all manners of
things. I bought a few cool figurines of Greek soldiers. The man who sold them sets them up in the mornings in battle scenes, it takes him 3.5 hours to do it! We saw a funny shirt that said “Yo vi a D10s” - “I saw God”. The I and O in Dios were a 1 and 0. Maradona is the best Argentinean soccer player in history - and he is number 10. Evidently the people here revere him as a God. Well, the world cup is coming up, we will have to see how well the Argentineans - coached by D10s - will do. Another important figure here is called Mafalda. She is a cartoon charachter, 4 years old, who is very sarcastic, always laughing at the world and questioning politics and laws. People sell artifacts of her everywhere - dolls, lighters, pictures. We have been reading her comics every night and learning Spanish this way. I hope it helps!”
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Fran
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keep it coming!
I thoroughly enjoy the boys' comments. Best blog ever..