This is just kind of a hodge-podge of foto´s i´ve taken lately that I find interesting. Enjoy.
The Ombú
- The old Ombú tree on Blvr España in the neighborhood of pocitos. It is the oldest Ombú in Montevideo and can be seen in some of the oldest pictures of the city. The shell of its fruit has traditionally been hollowed and used to drink mate.
Mother´s Day tribute
- The mother´s day service at Mision Vida (my home church in montevideo). It was pretty cute–a group of kids did a coreographed dance to a song dedicated to all the moms.
Hanging Wit My Homies
- Me with Alex and Raquel. Alex is currently taking english classes, so we met for pizza and talked in english for a while so he could practice.
Bears on Parade
- Me with the United States bear in the Plaza de Independencia. There was a bear representing every country around the world. Some kind of special exibit/project in Montevideo–there had to have been hundreds of bears.
A Typical Day in History Class
- A typical day waiting for History class to start (or was it uruguayan culture?…)
Taxi Stop
- On friday I was walking down 18 de Julio (the main thouroughfare that connects the downtown and central business district of Montevideo with the rest of the city) and this is what I saw: an army of taxies parked and blocking all but one lane of the street, while many of the taxi drivers stood nearby chatting and drinking Mate. I asked one of them what the strike/protest was about. He told me that they wanted more safety measures in the (for instance, an automatic lock they can use to lock someone inside the back if they need to), because apparently it has been more and more common for taxi drivers to be assalted.
Cleanup Job
Ponder Life 
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Nice pictures! I love the one with the bears! Chicago had a similar thing only with cow statues everywhere. Was it a permanent or temporary exhibit? It sure looks like your meeting alot of people. Take care. Audios!
it was a temparary exhibit–I´ve heard about the chicago thing too, but never seen it.
My favorite bear was probably paraguay–it basically was covered with astro-turf and had pegged to it a bunch of hand-made wooden figures of animals (which i gather were also native to Paraguay), made by local/indiginous artisens.
Cool
Mothers’ Day was originally a war protest holiday started after World War I to remember mothers who died because of war or whose children had died because of war. Do they celibrate it that way or has it lost it’s original meaning like it has here?
I had never heard that before—here its pretty much the same as in the states, though perhaps slightly less comercial (but only slightly).