Festival Okinawense

Every week the head of COPA (the program I study through down here ) sends out an email with information about different cultural events which take place during the weekends. This past Saturday I went to a Festival Okinawa-Japon. The festival took place on la Avenida de Mayo right in front of the Casa Rosada. The festival took place because the Okinawense celebrated their 100th anniversary of their arrival to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The parade included karate, two Japanese percussion groups, a color guard and many people dressed in their native attire doing dances. I had a great time and really enjoyed the percussionists. Hopefully more interesting cultural events come up while I'm here because I love learning about other cultures in Buenos Aires, and the best thing about it is that its completely free!

It's beginning to get warmer here, the temperature today was around 72 and tomorrow is supposed to be almost 80 degrees but then a front is going to come through and drop the temperatures to the 50s.

My first paper is due this Thursday for my Spanish Literature II class. I have to write no more than 4 pages on Garcilaso and el paisaje in the poems we are reading and also relate it to el locus amoenus with reference to the Egloga I we read in class. Fun stuff! Everything else is going well with classes, this week we continue to talk about Facundo in my Argentine Lit class and talk about the radicalists of the first half of 20th century Argentina in my history class, talk about the next five chapters of Boquitas Pintadas for my COPA class and finish up our discussion on art from the Spanish Golden Age in my art class.

Heres the link to my photos from Saturday: http://picasaweb.google.com/HSC02010/FestivalOkinawense#