here are some more pictures of the new house: and i finally got heat in my room!




we have about a hundred balconies:



where lots of pies happen:


living:




soon to be my new kitchen:


routines i sometimes forget are important:


the seed fair:






the view from my little window:


and the huerta:


what i like about living here is that it's a real neighborhood. Before i moved i had never even heard of San Cristobal and none of the foreign kids know where it is but lately every porteño i meet actually lives here too. i don't know it's just really little things that sound silly but make me happy to be here. for example yesterday the wheel came off my bike when i was carrying it downstairs so i was standing on the sidewalk trying to put it back on but i didn't have a wrench and an old man sitting in a donkey drawn cart yelled for his friend to come put the wheel on for me and they came over and fixed it and told me i needed air. and a woman was walking by and i wasn't wearing a coat and she yelled at me to put some clothes on and then saw me twenty minutes later and yelled at me again. and the people who work at the fruit stand below our house know who i am and there's an organic food store down the street with grain and granola and dried fruit and spices but it's just run by this ni
ce old couple who sells everything for really cheap because they want everybody to be able to eat healthy. and i found a free silkscreening workshop that meets for classes every tuesday night but i can go use it any night of the week too and they have hundreds of screens with really good images. and they have a bike co-op. and i made friends with this funny vegan boy from mendoza