This first picture is of the house of Sarmiento, a past president of Argentina. It has been encased in this glass box to prevent 
it from decaying. Anyway we saw the house from a boat tour that we took from the river town of Tigre which I visited over the long weekend. It was a nice little town with an amusment park (whcih we didnt go to) and a large market (which we did go to).
it from decaying. Anyway we saw the house from a boat tour that we took from the river town of Tigre which I visited over the long weekend. It was a nice little town with an amusment park (whcih we didnt go to) and a large market (which we did go to). The second picture is of the very large cemetery located near our dorm. It has the graves of many famous Argentinians, including Eva Peron and Sarmiento. The graves are all enclosed by a large brick wall and are extremely ornate. They come in sizes from the ones shown here to giant sculptures and huge monuments. It was interesting to see. I chose this picture to talk about the cemetery becasue you can see the houes of living poeple in the background. After going to this cemetery we went to a market that was located in a park which was fun. There were bands playing, people dancing the tango, and people doing sort of acrobatics in the lawn.
March 25th was a national holiday and my friends and I decided that we wanted to partake in some festivities. We took a bus over to Plaza de Mayo where we heard some activities would be occurring. I knew they were going to be political activities but I was not prepared for the passionate speeches (during the ones that fervently denounced the US we were especially careful not to speak english to each other) and huge number of people. The picture here is of one part of the crowd, you can see some of the flags waving and smoke from something. It was interesting and exciting to see people so passionately involved. The plaza area was packed but more people were pouring in from the streets in groups that denoted the organziation they were with (Argentinian socialist part, mothers of the plaza de mayo movement etc...). In the crowd snack vendors worked there way around. There was a very defined police line. Che Gueverra (the Socialist revolutionary who was born in Argentina) was a prominent figure in banners and flags along with Tupac Amaru II (an Incan leader who lead a revolution against the Spanish). I had heard that these rallies were not all that uncommon here (and been told by the US embassy security lady not to go), it was good to see people so passionately involved, but also a reminder of the political realities and past of Argentina.
