Mostly pictures today

Not too much to report in the last week...I definitely have my routine now, am well into classes, and can understand most of what goes on around me. In the past week, I have visited the Buenos Aires Zoo, had my first exposure to Argentine cinema, come very close to touching a wild and potentially rabid dog my subway station at rush hour (never seen that happen before...), and visited the national library among other things.

I will go ahead and add some pictures and save the text-heavy posting for a time where I have something really exciting to say:

This might be the most miserable polar bear on the planet. I think the lowest temperatures here probably don't reach the average temperatures where it lives.

This is the Argentine National Library, which is conveniently about 10 blocks from my house. It looks a lot like a Louis Kahn building...I looked up the architect, and it turns out that the guy who designed it was the pioneer of the brutalist movement in South America (the style that Louis Kahn created/contributed to).

This was the only picture I was able to get inside the library before getting yelled at by a security guard...whoops.


Many of my friends didn't have class today, as the students at UBA in many of the facultades (departments) went on strike. This is a picture of the entrance all decked out with the signs about today's strike. I'm not 100% sure what it was about, but it had something to do with the allocation of educational funding. Facultad tomada means department taken (as in taken over). I tried to get a picture of the inside (there was literally a barricade just inside the door), but the students I asked were not so happy/willing to comply.


Note: the graffiti is not part of the strike...that's always there.