The concentration for this week's Argentine Life and Culture class is tango! This evening the group is meeting at Cafe Tortoni on Avenida de Mayo at 8pm to see a tango show.
Bad day for colectivo's today. Late yet again! My roomie and I waited 20 minutes for the right bus but it never passed. Took a different one and had to hoof the extra blocks to the location. Thankfully Lucia, our fantastic Expanish group coordinator, and Professor Stephen Bouscaren, a distinguished archaeologist and our SD City College onsite faculty member, waited outside for us.
Spectacular, stunning, breathtaking, entertaining...a fine tango musical "dramedy" in the intimate basement of Cafe Tortoni...pure delight!
Photos... SD City College group at Cafe Tortoni
Left top: Freddy, Esteban, Crystal
Left bottom: Jacob, Sarah, Jared, Sean
Right top: Lucia - Expanish group coordinator
Right middle: Kate and Pamela in the front; Breanna, Sean, Amber and Maya in the background
Right bottom: Rene, Leilani and Kirsten
I heard that tango show is magnificent. When I travelled to Argentina, I was staying in one of those Buenos Aires apartments in the Abasto neighborhood, the birthplace of Carlos Gradel, the major tango singer. So I decided to go to a tango show that was near, so I went to Esquina Carlos Gardel. I had the most amazing time, I would like to do it again!
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