1. 2 years ago 

    Just another beautiful day in Buenos Aires for some picture-taking. It’s important in this city not to let free-time get away from you, especially as the weather has been a bit off-and-on recently.

    So this time the day took me south from Recoleta, first toward the medical-school district where a bunch of young people run around in their scrubs, and all the way down Avenida Callao toward Argentina’s Parliament, or “Congreso.” I spent some time in the plaza down there before heading west on Rivadavia.

    Around the Congreso district the neighborhood seemed fairly nice, but as one gets closer to Plaza Miserere (where some of the final shots in the short Flickr show are taken), things get slightly more sketchy. I didn’t think it was a good idea to wander around aimlessly with the camera at this point, so I packed it in and it just popped out to take a few shots in the hub of the Once district, the aforementioned Plaza Miserere.

    I can definitely get a good idea as to the socioeconomic breakdown of a district by the quantity and types of looks that my camera receives as I walk down the street with it in my hand.

    AVENIDAS CALLAO, RIVADAVIA, PUEYRRIDON

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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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