Esperando a Godot y 2nd Apple Momentitos

Finalmente I feel like I have a set schedule! Two of my classes are at UBA--the public (yes that means free to Argentines, but not to spoiled Americans THANKS MOM AND DAD) university that takes me one hour to get to by bus and by subte. The building I go to 3 times a week is covered by posters, graffiti, advertisements--you name it. It looks like that was the theme for the decor because literally there isn't a square inch of wall not covered. It gives me the sense that the students really own they're school and that its a location for not only traditional learning, but passionately questioning current life and politics as well. I'm gonna try to casually take a picture tomorrow to show you!

Interesting theatre experience! In one of my UBA seminario about the works of Samuel Beckett, we're first discussing Waiting for Godot--his most popular play. I saw a production recently, per the profesora's request, that didn't follow all the traditions of this well-known script. The play has 5, arguably 6 male characters that are usually portrayed in similar costumes, with similar mannerisms, etc. This production (TEATRO ANFITRION, DIRIGIDA POR BERTA GOLDENBERG) chose to cast multiple actors to play the 2 principal characters and also women to occupy the majority of the roles. The night I went an inspector from the "Beckett Estate" (who knows what that means?) to judge the loyalty of the production. The text was completely respected--but I'm guessing and my professor (one of the most respected Beckett scholars in Latinoamerica if not in the world) things that because of the unusual casting they decided to shut the production down.

Its really great to be able to do so much of what I love all at once: travel, see plays, study theatre, art class, and hang out with great people. I loved being witness to this interesting theatre occurrence as well!

It may seem that I'm just the perfect traveller with no problems who never misses home. Not the case. Here are things I will say when I get home (*** this list is NOTHING compared to the one that my friend Freesia should write when she gets home from Uganda this summer. See freesiastravelsabroad.blogspot.com )

• There is toilet paper in every stall? What's a toilet seat cover?
• YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE WATER??!!!
• All the taxis are legit? Not only the ones that say Radio Taxi?
• I don't have to go to 5 different bookstores and fotocopiadoras every day to find my readings for class? I can really just buy this one textbook?
• Clothes come in more than "one size fits all"?
• You have EVERYTHING on the menu? Really? I can order anything I want?!!!
• What's a taco? And what are those delicious brown mushy things next to them?
• I also just plain miss the easiness of using cash in los EEUU. Here if you have a 100 peso bill (=to más o menos U$S 27) you have to beg to get change--even at restaurants, in taxis and at the supermarket. NO ONE ever has change. Don't even ask about monedas (coins for the colectivos).

I'm happy to welcome these crazy differences to keep reminding me that I'm not home and that I'm in the one and only Argentina!