La Bomba del Tiempo..... and class changes.

Two nights ago, on Monday night, I got the chance to go with some new Texan friends that are studying here in BA to an amazing Drum-Concert-Inexplicable thing. It's called La Bomba del Tiempo at a local open-air club in the Once neighborhood called Konex. (FYI: Once neighborhood is a good place to buy cheap and fake name brand clothing and stuff like it, but watch your wallets because there's a lot of people and a lot of pick-pocketing). We got there about an hour late, but it was alright because we still had about 3 hours left of the show! there were a ton of people, and the band/drum group was amazing. They kept the rhythm going that whole time with various beats and everyone dancing away. To my understanding this occurs every Monday night, or once a month or something. I will go back before I leave.

There were other international students in the crowd as well from Universidad de Belgrano. Everyone had a very good time. I heard stories about a girl getting her wallet pick-pocketed though, and another girl had a seizure, but she's fine now.

Also, as it had a hippie vibe, there was quite a business of everything having to do with marijuana being sold just at the line waiting to get into the club... especially brownies, which seemed to be popular in the crowd. Quite interesting, but you'd be stupid to try anything like that in a foreign country especially!


Anyways I have changed my class schedule that I mentioned in the earlier blog. Instead of Latin American History, in it's place I'm now taking Latin American Cinema. And instead of Latin American Gender studies, in it's place I'm taking a different Latin American History class.


That's all for now, I'm off for a 4 day weekend. It's Dia de la Memoria to commemorate and remember the atrocities of the military dictatorship of the Late 70's and Early 80's. More to come about that probably in a few days... and a better explanation of the history... and the U.S.'s big part in it.

By for now.