January 8, 2007
Jamin Patel and Paul Barker
...McDonald´s and the Brits...
Starting the morning without any assigned obligations this morning, we woke up at our own time and ate breakfast at the hotel. Getting into a group of seven, Josh, Jamin, Paul, Harmony, Lara, Gabbie, and Linsey, all decided to explore the streets and head over to Florida Avenue, a major tourist shopping and street show attraction. We stopped at a number of different stores admiring the leather work and different styles. The most fascinating store was Ashanti leathers, which had everything from bags and wallets to belts and jackets. The materials were specialized such as antalope, lamb skin, and Pinchoeo, a native animal of Argentina. We spoke to one of the sales representatives, Fernando, whom we spoke about our trip and the purpose to study immigration and assimilation of the British, Italian, and Jewish people. Fernanado in addition to our description spoke about how he is half Indian through this maternal side and half Portugese through his paternal size.
Realizing how much more immigration was present on top of our focused research was very interesting. But finally realizing how much money we could spend at the store and the fact that we were all college students we decided to walk back to the IES building a few blocks from our hotel. At IES we checked our mail and did other things on the computer until it was time for our lecture to begin.
At two p.m. our lecture started with Professor Klaus Gallo who spoke about the British. Gallo spoke about how the British were necessary to Argentina and focused on the hardships Argentina faced when the British rule ended. A lot of the sports that came from the British such as soccer, tennis, golf, and rugby, helped Argentina unite as a country as their own teams developed with more and more Argentinian players rather than British players. The economic success of Argentina came from the British trade and protection. Since British capital was a desired necessity to become an industrialized society, Argentina was kept out of war to provide the British with food and goods, allowing Argentina to industrialize and mancufacutre things like refrigerators, washing machines, and railroads.
After the IES lecture with Prof Gallo, we went back to the hotel where we made plans to eat dinner later that night. Our group decided to eat dinner at a McDonald´s whereas the other group decided to go to the Kosher McDonald´s in Once. The students that went to the Kosher McDonald´s thought it was rather awkward food because of the lack of cheese and absence of chicken nuggets. Also the group obeserved a greater number of orthadox Jewish customers and were surprised how many actually came to the McDonald´s. We wondered why the US has never established one. The regular McDonald´s on Flordia Avenue shocked us when we saw the decor, service, and quantity of the food. We were amazed how the fast food restaurant in the States differed so much; this one was more of a sit down causual restuarant than a fast food place. Leaving from the McDonald´s we headed back to the hotel at approximately 12 am and called it an early night.
...McDonald´s and the Brits...
Starting the morning without any assigned obligations this morning, we woke up at our own time and ate breakfast at the hotel. Getting into a group of seven, Josh, Jamin, Paul, Harmony, Lara, Gabbie, and Linsey, all decided to explore the streets and head over to Florida Avenue, a major tourist shopping and street show attraction. We stopped at a number of different stores admiring the leather work and different styles. The most fascinating store was Ashanti leathers, which had everything from bags and wallets to belts and jackets. The materials were specialized such as antalope, lamb skin, and Pinchoeo, a native animal of Argentina. We spoke to one of the sales representatives, Fernando, whom we spoke about our trip and the purpose to study immigration and assimilation of the British, Italian, and Jewish people. Fernanado in addition to our description spoke about how he is half Indian through this maternal side and half Portugese through his paternal size.
Realizing how much more immigration was present on top of our focused research was very interesting. But finally realizing how much money we could spend at the store and the fact that we were all college students we decided to walk back to the IES building a few blocks from our hotel. At IES we checked our mail and did other things on the computer until it was time for our lecture to begin.
At two p.m. our lecture started with Professor Klaus Gallo who spoke about the British. Gallo spoke about how the British were necessary to Argentina and focused on the hardships Argentina faced when the British rule ended. A lot of the sports that came from the British such as soccer, tennis, golf, and rugby, helped Argentina unite as a country as their own teams developed with more and more Argentinian players rather than British players. The economic success of Argentina came from the British trade and protection. Since British capital was a desired necessity to become an industrialized society, Argentina was kept out of war to provide the British with food and goods, allowing Argentina to industrialize and mancufacutre things like refrigerators, washing machines, and railroads.
After the IES lecture with Prof Gallo, we went back to the hotel where we made plans to eat dinner later that night. Our group decided to eat dinner at a McDonald´s whereas the other group decided to go to the Kosher McDonald´s in Once. The students that went to the Kosher McDonald´s thought it was rather awkward food because of the lack of cheese and absence of chicken nuggets. Also the group obeserved a greater number of orthadox Jewish customers and were surprised how many actually came to the McDonald´s. We wondered why the US has never established one. The regular McDonald´s on Flordia Avenue shocked us when we saw the decor, service, and quantity of the food. We were amazed how the fast food restaurant in the States differed so much; this one was more of a sit down causual restuarant than a fast food place. Leaving from the McDonald´s we headed back to the hotel at approximately 12 am and called it an early night.
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