1. 2 years ago 

    Recoleta - Juncal ////// Retiro - Train Station

    I was greeted with another terrific day in Buenos Aires, so the camera and I did some exploring after class. Admittedly there’s not too much interesting or new going on in Recoleta - just some pretty pictures maybe - but the neighborhood of Retiro is something completely new.

    Retiro is home to the train and bus terminals, and I assume as in all big cities those breed an interesting neighborhood with a number of characters running around. Retiro’s proximity to Recoleta and Central, two safe, developed, and touristy neighborhoods is a bit odd considering the sketchiness of the area around the train and bus terminals - I was certainly drawing some unneeded attention walking around with that camera around my neck.

    However, and most importantly, it is an extremely interesting place considering the number and variety of people buzzing about, and it serves as quite the contrast to the splendor of the surrounding area. It was important that I get the chance to share it, and hopefully it can be appreciated, at least on some level, via these photos.

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So I, Sean Kesluk, left Los Angeles for a 6 month adventure abroad in Europe and South America. After a few weeks studying the Deutsch in Freiburg, Germany, it's two months up north in Hamburg working for the city's Jewish community center. After a brief foray into Sweden, I'll head South to Buenos Aires for some Spanish classes and volunteer work in a La Boca soup kitchen. After that it's back home to the States and national service with AmeriCorps NCCC. With a month of training at the VA medical campus in Perry Point, MD, it 's off to Baltimore for my first project, two months working for The Samaritan Women, a non-profit renovating a hundred-year-old mansion to use as a transitional home for women in recovery from heroin addiction and human trafficking, in addition to expanding a farm/urban garden to distribute produce to soup kitchens, shelters, and those in nutritional poverty. The second project will see us down in New Orleans, LA doing post-Katrina work with The Phoenix of New Orleans, a non-profit which renovates homes for Lower Mid-City homeowners who can't afford to do so.
 
 

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