1. 2 years ago 

    EL CAMINITO, LA BOCA

    There are two sides to the Argentine barrio of La Boca. On the one hand La Boca, which is a district on the southeast side of Buenos Aires, is known as one of the poorer and more dangerous areas in the city. However on the other hand there is a tiny sliver of La Boca, know as “El Caminito,” or “The Little Walk-Way,” which is regularly tourist infested.

    It’s a world unto itself, accessible only by bus, full of English speakers and federal police. The houses are multicolored, the shops are loaded with Boca Juniors jerseys, and there are men standing by the train tracks waiting to tell you that if you wonder off in the wrong direction you will not be coming back with that nice camera and your wallet.

    There are vendors and restaurants, and all in all its an interesting enough touristy site, but not really worth too much of a mention. There are some pictures through the blue link for further viewing.

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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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