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Monday, October 25, 2010

How sweet is this room?

The third and final leg of the "10 Dias de Democracia Global" which consisted of the meetings of the World Federalist Movement kicked off in this room in "La Casa de Cultura." Whenever I had a chance I got out my swiss army knife and chipped a little of the wall off into my pocket to cash in when gold prices rise.

There were also some really awesome paintings on the ceiling and walls. There was a description of the paintings which explained that it was a story from the Old Testament about a women who (more or less, I'm thinking less) liberated a people. I took it upon myself to stand next to the description since it was only in Spanish and whenever an English-only speaker came by to read it I would give them my personal version.

It was fun trying to match up the description with the series of paintings and the story it was telling. The most confusing part was that it talked about the Tres Gobolinos. First thought obviously was: the Three Goblins, however we eventually concluded that Gobolinos were baby-like angels because they reappeared in many of the paintings, however it didn't really make sense with the storyline. It turns out that Gobolinos is a word for "canvas" so it was explaining what was going on in the three different canvases. Interesting noneTHEless.

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