1. 2 years ago 

   SAN TELMO MARKET

   Every Sunday afternoon in San Telmo, a quaint little district with cobbled streets and old buildings, there is an enormous flea market down several miles of Avenida Defensa. Literally every Sunday I had planned to go, but something had always come up - that is, until my last Sunday in town, at which point I simply had to go.

   Now of course it is usually populated with tourists, more so during the holiday season when a whole host of Americans come down for a week or so, but its also littered with portenos and interesting people selling interestings things. A lot of people. It’s basically the only thing happening in the city on a Sunday now that I think about it.

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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