Is it the culture or something in the water?

Let's play a guessing game today. See the picture on the right (and I made this one a bit bigger this time), do you see what I see? uh yea, exactly... That was what I walked into this morning on my way out and it was absolutely hilarious! The funniest part was that the dog knew it wasn't supposed to be doing that because it jumped off the cat when it saw me watching. However, when I started to move away, it jumped right back into action and that went on a few times because I really wanted to snap a shot of this. Was I being a pervert?!

When I got home in the evening, I told the owner what I saw because the dog actually just arrived last night and I didn't know where it came from. He then showed me this youtube video that he shot. So, I guess what I witnessed was 'normal' for these two 'good friends' which are both the owner's family's pets. How adorable!! Man, my innocence just went right out the window from this morning incident...

Latin culture has always been known for being a passionate one. A kiss on the cheek when you greet and say goodbye to someone, doesn't matter which gender you are or whether or not you just met that person. There are LOTS of make out sessions on the streets, at doorways, on the bus, in semi dark corners. Singing, drumming and dancing to whatever they have their hearts for. Basically, they have no problem showing their love.

There is however one thing I don't know yet if it has anything to do with their hot-blooded nature, their values or just they are very accustomed to expressing their desires freely. When you pass by any news stand in the city, and they are pretty much in every corner, the magazines that would be flapping right in your face at the most prominent spots are with half naked women. I'm not talking the Maxim type, I'm talking about bare booties and bare titties. I'm not talking about one or two either but a whole wall of display, including DVDs and tapes too. I'm by no means a conservative person but the sight of it still made me go 'holy, that's a bit much don't you think?' It'll take me some time to figure out what that really says about the culture. May be I should ask the dog, she'll probably be able to shine some light on it.

Kaka City

Walking around in Buenos Aires, no matter which barrio (neighborhood) you are in, there is one thing that you wouldn't miss on the streets...drum roll please...let me introduce you to KaKa! What is kaka, you may ask? That's spanish for dog sh*t. I love the word, sounds so cute. haha

People here love dogs and you will see them walking the dogs at any hours of the day. I'm not kidding. Every time when I went home from tango between the hours of 3-5AM (take note: AM), I'd see at least a few people, head half hanging, half asleep, walking their dogs. I always wonder why does the dogs need to do their business at these peculiar hours?

Anyway, while they like to have their dogs, not so much about their surroundings I guess. They seem to not see the connection between when your dog poopies, it's the owner's responsibility to pick up after them; thus so many kaka on the streets. When I was in Recoleta (a ritzy neighborhood) checking out their Sunday market in the plaza, I saw that someone decided to raise the flags, literally (see pic), to the problem. In case the pic is a bit too small to tell, nice little colorful flags were used to mark every single piece of kaka in the proximity of 2 grass lawns. Each has their own slogan saying: 'Stop Kaka!', 'Kaka Go Home', 'No More Kaka please...' etc etc. It was quite a scene really. At first I thought it was some name tags for plants but no no no...It's KaKa City!!