Museo Malba

When I go out with any of the people here and we meet friends of theirs, Im introduces as "prima","sobrina", "neta" (cousin, niece, granddaughter) all followed with "de irlanda". They all think its much easier to say then to explain that Sara is my mother godmother and thats how wel all know eachother! Not that that is very difficult to say... it takes me 20 seconds to say in spanish so imagine how easy it would be for them. But anyway... I now have Argentinian relatives and last saturday me and my 4 cousins(Luciana, Isella, Carla and Valentina) went to Museo Malba.

This is a modern art museum loacted in a the slighty upper class side of Buenos Aires. It was a stunning day, sun was shining and we were all yawning plenty. After the embarrassment of all my coins being rejected in the ticket machine (coins here have to be put in the ticket machine one by one.. I didnt have that kinda patience especially since the majority were 10 cents!) and a queue building up behind me we were on our way. We got off the bus at the Universidad de Derecho(Law University), where my mum studied for a while, and then set off walking along occassionally stopping to take some pictures and soak up the sun. It was a lovely walk to the Museum and thanks to our student cards (Yes CCCs id card has come in useful for me over here) we all go in for free. The museum has lots of funky and odd pictures by artists from all over South America. There was some amazing paintings- which If i hadnt got caught taking pictures of I would have photos to show you--who knew you couldnt take photos in a museum!!!- and some extremely odd! We wandered around for ages staring at paintings trying to figure out meaning or laughing at the oddness of some of them or being amazed by the talent that some of these artists had!! It was really fascinating. As well as painting there were Sculptures made out of wax... whcih i also got in trouble for for touching, by the same person that caught me taking the picture!! Surprised I ddint get thrown out... Im such a rebel!!- and films of art etc. It was really interesting and fascinating!

Downstairs there was an area of newspaper clips of funny things that had happened to people, some of them I found very fascinating and if I could remembr any of them I would tell you.. But i cant! Once we were all arted out we went to the near buy shopping centre for some Argentinian icecream! Have I told you how much I love the icecream here?? I dont think Ill ever be able to eat Irish icecream again.. Im going to be spending a lot of money on getting it imported from here! After a bit of wandering around the shops we set off for home... All of us ready for bed... for an hour before we headed out for the night!!

Yes they know how to do it right over here... sun, icecream, sun, museum, sun, shops, sun, dancing!