goths and los bicis

Sept 6th
I woke up to the usual bustling around in the kitchen (right outside my door) and spent the first couple of hours translating my syllabuses for UO. They need the syllabuses of all classes that aren’t Spanish classes to approve the credit. Unfortunately, both my syllabuses were pretty lengthy, and I took a lot of time trying to translate them. They are pretty bad English/translation. But at least that is one thing off my list. I then did some research with the help of my host sister. One of my classes is focusing on urban youth tribes. I am not sure what exactly I want my theme to be. But today, on the recommendation of my host family we went out looking for the gothicos o emos. As coincidence would have it we went to the same place that I accompanied my friend for her ear piercing. It should be a very interesting/fun/nerve racking project. I will have to do interviews and such. This is scary when I know the language, but when you are taking to someone who has star pupils or even white pupils it makes things a bit more difficult (on top of the language barrier). My host sister asked a couple store owners about the tribus juveniles. One of the gothic ladies kind of scoffed at us, but gave us a flier with a website that had gothic history and dress code and such. As I said…this will be an interesting project. I came home and worked more on my syllabi. I drank some mate and headed out around 8 to go to an international music festival. This was an experience. (but what isn’t here). There were all sorts of indi/rock/rappy bands playing in 3-4 separate areas. We watched a couple. Some were better than others. One of the ladies had the biggest hair I have seen. Another act was all pipes, pans and clapping and stomping. This one was really cool and full of energy. The one my friend wanted to see (bicicletas) was pretty good as well. The main singer was bald and looked a bit on the older side. When he took of his hat his head was so hot it had a big cloud of steam coming off of it the whole time. I came home and ate my dinner (which had been saved for me at my request), and my flan with dulce de leche. I have been teaching my host sister about facebook, so I gave her a lesson tonight and we finished off the night (or morning) with tetris.