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ok, i'm back. i didn't actually get locked in, but i moved to the library anyway. oh yeah, today was the first day of classes so i'm at my university. ok, so the museum....
the museum is called "la casa de kingman." it's actually the house of the artist E. Kingman preserved as a museum and it is AMAZING! (aside: i forgot to load the pics i took onto my comp so i'll put some up later) i took about a million pics. the place is Huge and i had free reign to go where ever i wanted to. i'll explain more when you see the pictures. in general though, kingman paints the native people, especially the women, in an attempt to express their pain and suffering. he uses very bold colors and always paints big hands. i LOVE all of it and want to but it all. but it's not actually for sale. also in the house are: an original salvador dali, tons of really old (like hundreds of years old) furniture, and religious art work from the 16th century painted on pounded gold! it was amazing.
I also walked over to Maura's house tonight to see if she wanted to take the bus with me in the am to orientation. i ended up staying for coffee and bread and cheese and cards. they play rumi-kube but with cards. I also taught my host mom and sister (camila, 16) to play american rummy. they have some wacked out way of playing that never seems to work out right and you're always left wondering what to do at the end cuz there are no more cards but no one has any points or goes out... needless to say, they like my version WAY more. oh, and NO RICE TODAY!!! i want to write a hiku about rice but i don't know how many sylabuls (sp?)...
ok, i'm back. i didn't actually get locked in, but i moved to the library anyway. oh yeah, today was the first day of classes so i'm at my university. ok, so the museum....
the museum is called "la casa de kingman." it's actually the house of the artist E. Kingman preserved as a museum and it is AMAZING! (aside: i forgot to load the pics i took onto my comp so i'll put some up later) i took about a million pics. the place is Huge and i had free reign to go where ever i wanted to. i'll explain more when you see the pictures. in general though, kingman paints the native people, especially the women, in an attempt to express their pain and suffering. he uses very bold colors and always paints big hands. i LOVE all of it and want to but it all. but it's not actually for sale. also in the house are: an original salvador dali, tons of really old (like hundreds of years old) furniture, and religious art work from the 16th century painted on pounded gold! it was amazing.
I also walked over to Maura's house tonight to see if she wanted to take the bus with me in the am to orientation. i ended up staying for coffee and bread and cheese and cards. they play rumi-kube but with cards. I also taught my host mom and sister (camila, 16) to play american rummy. they have some wacked out way of playing that never seems to work out right and you're always left wondering what to do at the end cuz there are no more cards but no one has any points or goes out... needless to say, they like my version WAY more. oh, and NO RICE TODAY!!! i want to write a hiku about rice but i don't know how many sylabuls (sp?)...
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