The street we live on always has some activity going on. I like to sit out on our balcony and just watch everything that is going on. Sometimes guys will walk down the street shouting out to get people's attention for whatever they are selling. Well one morning we heard a guy yelling, I went out on the balcony to see what was going on and it was this man pulling a bull along with him. This bull was super decorated in a bunch of different colors and looked so fun so I called the others over to see. The guy stopped and was holding out his hand to us and pointing to the bull. We thought he was wanting us to pay him to ride the bull, so all of us kept saying no and eventually went inside. Then Dr. Krishnayya (one of our main professors) called all of us downstairs to come outside. He wanted to show us what the bull was all about. One of the cooks came out and handed the man some money and some food and then put a pretty scarf onto the bulls back. Professor Krishnayya told us that this man would come around and collect scarfs or clothing and money or food to give to the poor. Then we told him that we thought we were supposed to ride the bull or something and he laughed so hard! He kept laughing at all of us for thinking such an outrageous thing! Then through his laughter he said: "You are not in Mexico, you are not in Spain! You don't ride the bull!" It was a pretty funny experience but now we know!
The people here are artists! Every night you'll see people washing off these little chalk drawings that they put on the entrance of their house and then they draw new ones. The cooks drew a super huge one out on the street for the new year it looks so cool!
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| This is an example of the chalk drawings in front of people's houses. |
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| This is one of the carts that comes by our house. Fun bananas!!! |
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