Clowns, Prostitutes, and Llamas: Just do it the Argentian Way

11/09/12

So I just have a mixture of funny things that I’ve seen or experienced the last few days, and as I think of all these, I just think of the Argentines living by the lifeguarding phrase “Make it work.” haha

Prostitutes:      My friend Meigan had told me about the transvestite prostitutes in the Palermo Park and we even talked about it again today in my Spanish language class.  Still I did not expect to be seeing them tonight.  As I was telling my host mom about going running recently she told me that we should try out the Palermo Park and we could get a ride with her there tonight.  Being the curious person I am, I immediately was like “OMG this is where the transvestite prostitutes are isn’t it??”  …and then realized how strange it was that I had just asked my host mom that.  Thankfully, she knew exactly what I was talking about and I explained how Meigan had seen them in the park when she was running, one of them without a shirt even.  I found it strange that the fact that there are prostitutes in a main park is common knowledge because it seems like the police would stop this pretty quickly.  But my host mom just explained it that the police allow it to keep them out of the neighborhoods by all the houses where they used to go.  As shocking as it was to run past a group of three or four prostitutes in a giant running park, it does make sense to a point.  I’m just glad they were mostly clothed when I was there.  (Don’t worry though, there were TONS of people running in the park this evening and it somehow didn’t seem dangerous at all.)

Clown:  I MIGHT have a better story for this later, but now I would just like to say that they have a clown seminar at the hospital to keep the doctors more upbeat, etc.  I tried to go with the other volunteers but it had been cancelled haha

Llamas:  Someone asked me if there are a lot of llamas here.  While I do have a sweater with llamas on it, I live in the city so I really don’t know if there are actually lots of llamas here.  At a lot of the parks during the day they have miniature pony rides for kids, and yesterday as we passed a park (same one as above actually!) on the bus, I saw not only a pony saddled up but also a llama!!! I would love to say that I’ve ridden a llama…..