And our first round-up of activities ...

Hola chicos,

Today we're posting some summaries of a few recent activities to give you all a good idea of what types of things we're up to at Íbero. Stay tuned, because soon we'll be adding a bio of our own activities coordinator, Juan Ignacio.

Enjoy!


May 19 -- Tuesday afternoon Juan Ignacio, the activities coordinator, went with a group of students to Café Tortoni, Buenos Aires’ oldest café. (See above!) For visitors to BA, this is one of those “must do” activities in the city. We toured the elegant café, and then afterward – as it was quite cold that day – we had a café and churros.






May 20 -- Wednesday we went to Buenos Aires’ Museum of Latin American Art, one of the largest museums in the city. We were lucky to get a guided tour about Mexican art, and since the tour was in Spanish (!) our students were able to practice. Most interesting was the famous “banco,” a wooden sculpture that consists of a bench and series of branches. The branches are incredible because they extend out of the bench and literally climb the walls of the museum, leading all the way up to the building’ second floor.





May 24 -- Sunday night we went to see an enormous rock show at the city’s famous obelisk. The show was organized to commemorate the 199th anniversary of the first government of Argentina, and it was a night to remember. Perhaps most notably, we were able to see La Bomba de Tiempo, a famous drum group in the city, and the band's music basically spread song and dance all the way down the enormous Avenida 9 de Julio.





May 27 -- Wednesday we went to see one of the city’s best known icons, the “Floralis Genérica,” an enormous metal flower located in la Plaza Naciones Unidas, near Avenida Figeroa Alcorta. The flower is incredible – 20 meters in height – and has a system that allows it to open in the morning and close in the afternoon. Afterward, we went to see a very important football game – the final of the Champions League – so that we could enjoy a little bit of world football.

Un saludo grande,

The Íbero Staff