So, Saturday and Sunday are two of the main days of the festival, which ends tomorrow, so Marie and I were helpign run the booth. I helped set up and arrange a few things, but otherwise spent time working on my Spanish ...I am better with remembering to use full sentences now with the correct verb conjugation or tense about 80% of the time. Yay!
I did spend some time wandering aroudn the festival. I had a Churro, which are 10x better ehre than they are in Canada. I spoke to a nice older man who was very interested in what Canada was like and I saw a street clown performer who was doign an act with his dog. The crowd just kept growing for him...it was awesome...a lot of kids but also a lot of adults as well. I got some great pictures!
It reminded me a lot of the CNE today...complete with...yes you guessed it...funnell cake and fudge.
Lastly, I am in awe of the wood carvers who were making the most amazing fluid sculptures out of tree trunks. It is amazing watchign them carve out shapes with band saws and smooth edges with electric sanders...but with such a persice and light touch so that the wood int he end looks very fluid. I will post pictures....
That is it so far. I am going back to help work the both at the festival in a couple of hours.
Impressions of the day
- The pineapples here are so much more juicy, they make ours seem dried out...and I have watermelong with breakfast everyday.
- Also have beans everyday (smile)
- Yup, Costa Rican guys are still hot.
10 comments:
LOL...let the women set you up! If nothing comes out of it, at least your spanish will improve ten-fold.
Alex
There is something wonky with your blog. The left side choice pannel keeps jumping up and down. Can't target my choices to pick through the blogs.
Alex
*smiles* I remember the pineapples (and other fruits) we were getting in Hawaii. Amazing how much better things are when they don't have to travel thousands of miles.
Actually...that is one bonus to being out here in the prairies. We've ate corn that was still on the stalk only an hour or half hour before...our honey comes from a place that's about ten minutes away...we recognise the names of farms we drive past on the food at the grocery store...etc.
Ok...so basically Kianosh just wrote a blog about what it is like at the New York State Fair. Fried food everywhere funnel cakes and fudge at everywhere you look. Yes there are street performs that people flock to. Oh did I forget to mention the highlights monkeys riding dogs, 29inch women, largest pig (norman), snake lady, and spiderwomen. Plus the kicker of Kianosh's blog the wood carver....we have one at the NY State fair it is a husband wife combo. They do it with the power saw as well. They are awesome and are set up right behind our booth today the husband made a huge tree trunk into a giant Tim Hortons cup marketing bought it for $150 a steel. Plus it is at least 80lbs. The fine detail is what gets me anyway just to let Kianosh know i totally get this blog, because your day has been what my past ten days were.
Joanna
Yeah, the last few days it has struck me mmore how similar people can be here to Canada...and I believe all festivals are pretty much the same now.
Lol...and yeah we probably did similar things...except I didn´t make coffeee...but spreading awareness etc...it was great.
The sculptors here are an artist group there were like 8 of them.
Yeha eating food grown lcloser to home is definitely better....I love the watermelons too...I ve had it everyday and not a dud yet.
u really sound like ure having fun..im so jealous! :( but im happy for u!! i liked ure reference to youth culture in costa rica...interesting how similar they are with all the globalization and what not...is hip hop and other youth culture thought as a sort of rebellion there as it once was here? or has it been integrated into the system just as it has here with time?...am i being nerdy!!! o no! sorry! ure not here for anthro reasons! but interestin none the less.
Umm...I don't think you've beeing a nerd by asking the social-cultural questions. Those always make for interesting topics - perhaps its the social nerd in me! lol
As far as i can tell Western culture has melded intoyouth Culture here...I can´t speek for eveyr household, but the one I am staying at certainly doesn´t view it as rebellion. They listen to the same POP music, but the adults do too to oldertracks, which are played on the radio. I´m talking like 90s here. But then both youth and adults also listen to more latin beats. Close are exactly the same accross the board...in San Ramon, San Jose and La Fortuna anyway.
oh ok. but do you know if historically there was an effort by the youth to rebel and they happen to use western culture to do so? I know in Japan youth use pop music, etc and forms of western culture (with a japanese "flair" if you would like to say) to rebel against the traditions set out for them. While here youth also use music such as disco, rap etc and dance to rebel, though it has greatly been imbedded into our culture now. and with each generation the music has been accepted by the adults. do you know if that is the same situation there? Where the adults and children listen to the same music but is that also because of an act the youth set out to go against the traditions (ofcourse while doing so including a little bit of traditions within, such as listening to more latin pop music)? I also find it interesting, as you can tell how cultures, though trying to move away from their culture and adopt parts of western culture also adopt their cultural traditions such as Japanese pop music. Probably a self-reflexive thing on the culture? donno..never done enough research on it! :)
Good questions, unfortunatel don´t know enough yet about the history of youth culture ehre...I will tell you if I find out.
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