les demoiselles d'Nueva York

Today we started out with MoMA, which is definitely a place you should experience, when you are in New York City. It was very interesting to finally see all the famous works of art that we have worked with in class, and one of the pieces that we saw was Les Demoiselles d'Avignon created by Pablo Picasso, which was so much bigger than we had expected! We've also worked with Frida Kahlo, but we were very disappointed to find out that her paintings weren't there, and her paintings were actually the ones that we were looking forward to the most...

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso 

Different pieces of art

Although many of the paintings were very beautiful and interesting, it is still not everyting that can be considered as art - according to us anyway. Apparently bricks and pink shelves are considered as art!

Thereafter we went to the City University - Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, where we heard a lecture on "Latinos in New York" by Laird Bergard, which we were very impressed of! Laird Bergard was very committed but also very relaxed, which made the whole thing so much easier to understand but also easier to get acquainted with the conditions. It was very nice that we had the possibility to ask questions and discuss, but we could actually have used a bit more time.

The program ended at three o'clock, and after we managed to get lost in the building of the University, however, we finally got out to the 34th street, where we surprisingly found the much missed store from Barcelona, Mango. Afterwards we found this amazing store, Foot Locker for lady, which had all kinds of sports clothes, shoes, etc. It was very cheap!

We ended the day with a banquet with the whole class, because the French people are leaving tomorrow for Quebec, while we, the Spanish people, are the lucky ones of another day in New York! (;

Afterwards we went to get a few photos of Times Square, which is so filled with lights and people all over - it's quite amazing!

The amazing Times Square at night