Sunday, December 21, 2008

oaxaca 9

Jenny, Juri, Nora, Erin, and Kaori at the fair.
The entire spanish school sampling ´nieves´ (translation: oaxacan ice cream) outside La Soledad church.








hello, once again i am having trouble with my camera. my other memory stick is arriving on wednesday with joon so for now i am holding out on buying another. hopefully it is just a memory stick thing. we shall see.
the family gets here tomorrow evening! i am looking forward to it very much.
also, gracie from the hostel back at home is coming to pto escondido with her family and we are going to try to meet up in the next couple of weeks. i am so lucky to get to be with loved ones on this trip.
the other night some friends and i went to the fair. it was a lot of fun. i realized that i don´t usually go on rides or play games at the fair, because everything always costs so much. but this time i have the exchange rate in my favor, so i went on two rides and played the best shooting game of all time. there are these glass cases, with little bands made of dolls in them, and if you hit the target, the band plays a song for you. i tried to take a picture of this wonderful invention, but that is when my camera decided it wasn´t going to cooperate anymore.
i am putting yet more fascinating stencils up. i don´t understand how there is so much! and it is all so cool i have to share it. i showed my pictures to nora the other day and she asked me where i see all of them. she grew up here and said that she has never seen it before. i guess i´m just on the look-out for it. she also enlightened me to the fact that in times of political turbulence, people tend to use the image of benito juarez (considered one of oaxaca´s great leaders). back in 2006 there was a lot of stuff going on in oaxaca, and maybe that is when all these stencils started showing up?
anyway, in the next few days you will be seeing a lot of photos of me and my family doing touristy stuff for the holidays. i hope everyone is doing well and that you have a nice holiday season.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

yo. loving those photos of graffiti. how weird that nora hadn't seen them, you must have a graffiti radar. it's raining in belize. going to attempt to upload some blog photos today so watch out. have a great christmas with family and joon. i miss oaxaca! still deciding when/if to return in january. say hi to crazy japaneses from me. adios x

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