Rosh Hashana Urbano

Yesterday, the Buenos Aires Jewish Community came out in full force to eat, play music, sing, dance, show off artwork, and disrupt traffic. This giant street fair was called Rosh Hashana Urbano (Urban Rosh Hashana...interesting title), and it took over 2 full blocks and most of the Plaza Armenia, a square park in Palermo SoHo. I decided I had to check it out. I was really surprised not to see any security guards or anything around, since I am basically interrogated every time I try and enter a synagogue, but I was told that the security was hidden and actually watching everything...not sure whether that puts me at ease or scares me more.





Afterwards, I spent a while walking around Palermo and saw, among other many exciting things, a dog wearing a t-shirt and jeans. This is just proof that all porteños (including dogs) dress fashionably.


Yesterday also brought what was probably my most frightening experience so far. On my way back from a dinner at Hillel, my bus was pulling out from a stop when there was an extremely loud bang. Thinking it was a gunshot, bomb, or collision, I jumped out of my seat...only to realize that no one was phased at all by this. Everyone on the bus probably thought I was crazy....or just knew that I was definitely not from Buenos Aires. I was riding with someone I had just met at Hillel, and as we were walking to our new bus (which conveniently arrived almost empty about 34 seconds after the bang...good work, route 152), he explained to me that one of the tires had exploded. Go figure.

Assuming that the students at UBA have removed their barricade, tomorrow should be a normal day of classes. More to come later this week!