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Showing posts with label street. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Day 4: In the land of red and green


17 May 2012

          
        Another one of the thousands of things that have impressed me about Uganda ever since I was looking down from the plane was the land and its colors!  The ground here is red, RED.  It is made of clay instead of just dirt and that is why it has such a strong color.  When it gets wet it feels as if you are walking on spilled paint and becomes very slippery.  That is why when we went to the market the other day, with our Tom’s and flip flops, we all more than once nearly face planted on the piles of food, the people, or just the mud itself.  One time, one of us slipped and almost fell and all of the women around us began to laugh and laugh!  It was very funny, and now that I look back and imagine ourselves from a third person perspective I find myself laughing as well.  






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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Por las calles de la ciudad

Es curioso como la misma ciudad puede ser vista de tantas maneras.  Para algunos es un refugio, acogedora y hospitalaria, un hogar.  Para otros es fría y triste, la soledad absoluta.  Por ahora, la ciudad, San Francisco en este caso, me recuerda a Montevideo, y me encuentro en el primer grupo de personas.  No tienen nada que ver, pero ese ambiente típico de ciudad poblada, de alguna manera, me hace sentir cómoda.

It is interesting how the same city can be seen so drastically different.  For some, it is a refuge, welcoming and embracing, a home.  For others, its cold and sad, absolute solitude.  Right now, the city, in this case San Francisco, reminds me of Montevideo, and I find myself within the first group.  They are nothing alike, but that typical atmosphere of a crowded place, somehow makes me feel at home.



He muerto muchas veces, acribillado en la ciudad... Pero es mejor ser muerto, que un numero que viene y va.
-Charly García


 The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
-Desmond Morris

Cities force growth,and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson



Vida ciudadana: millones de seres viviendo juntos en soledad.
-Henry David Thoreau



La ciudad se ilumina para nuevas proezas.
-Homero Aridjis


What is the city but the people?
-William Shakespeare, Coriolanus


 Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

-Pablo Neruda



Every city is a living body.
-St. Augustine, City of God


A great city is not to be confused with a populous one.
- Aristotle 



Era pasada la medianoche. La ciudad, tan llena de gente e intransitable durante el día, estaba silenciosa y vacía.
-Anais Nin

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.



-Walt Whitman


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