Super-Drawing-Wednesday

Today was Super Drawing Wednesday. The class of us four plus Brent, made our way to Hotel/Gallery Trinidad this morning. This has been our second visit here (remember... the Spanish students stayed here for a few nights not long ago). We focused on plant life today, finding various scenes to draw inside of this infested building of greenery.



For about an hour or two we focused on each of our own representations of the various plant life around the building that we felt attracted to or that would simply make an interesting drawing.



Before we knew it, it was lunchtime and we headed back to the Hipster Cafe (aka Cafe La Hoya) to have lunch. Their menu was rather Italian and we each consumed some form of salad or panini. Unlike The Itallian Coffeehouse, their prices were relatively cheap. Mix that with their suave ambiance, downtempo tunes, and attractive waitress (in my opinion) and you end up with a name that sticks, "Hipster Cafe." Here we were so lounge-enduced that we spent another hour or so working on individual drawings from the Mayan symbology theme from yesterday.

Afterwards we bussed home to reengerize for the day and went separate ways. Tonight, the music was composed from a video that we shot night-before-last. The video was another installation-based experiment but actually had a slight narrative to it. The video should be posted within a day or so.


Other than a summary of the day, I'd like to comment in general on the trip thus far. It seems, other than the heat and humidity, that this school away from school has been nearly perfect (at least for me). We mark halfway with the whole thing. (For me personally, I will be here until July 1st, so I - in a way - am just beginning.) However, I feel as if we have reached that hump where we know we are "here." We have established ourselves in this city and treat it with respect and some form of understanding. I'd like to say that we all appreciate the culture and lifestyles that inhabit this region. I can only image what it would truely be like to live here though. But on a whole, the city of Merida has treated us pleasingly. The people are relatively nice and understanding (which I find a little surprising since there are quite a few Gringos here) and our ability to experience the city and nearby places has been extremely accessable and enjoyable.




On another note, tomorrow we head into the jungle with the business students tomorrow where we will meet up with other Millsaps students. There we will sleep in hammocks in huts and get close and personal with Yucatecan nature. Therefore, look for the next blog posting Friday night. Hasta luego.

-clay.