Got up early today, hung out a bit at the apartment, and headed to studio. I love being out at midday in the sunshine, seeing the kids teens and aduts alike heading home for their siesta. The sun here is amazing. The buildings are low so you don't feel trapped in a big city. There are tons of open spaces in plazas and parks, not to mention to ease with which one can just hop on a metro or take a walk to either the mountains or the Mediterranean. SOOO cool.
Got to studio, spent hours downloading programs and software for graphic design and studio, then got my feet wet in Adobe InDesign...and let me tell you, the water is FREEZING! I'm worried that my work for graphic design won't get completed let alone well, because it is taking me so long to grasp the program. Christi helped a bit, and Ben and Billy are around to answer questions too. I think I'm just so used to doing scrapbooks and whatnot by hand that it feels limiting to only have certain tools which I am not even sure how to manipulate yet. I'll get it though...it just might take a little while!
Felipe came in and I helped him to get started on the site scale analyses, and when studio time came, we were ready to present and to ask and answer questions.
After studio I met up with Alfredo, who was in the area for a film presentation, and we went to a theater a few blocks away to see Babel. The majority of it was in spanish, but because it has 4 different languages in it, they didn't dub it and they left it subtitled in spanish, instead, so that was cool. I understood almost everything, if not the vocab, then the context. I liked the movie, as well. I had heard that it doesn't have a plot, but I thought the way time was altered was really great and the connections between these people all over the world was really interesting. For me, it was about how we affect people all over the world without knowing it. The only thing I didn't like was that there were a few things left unanswered at the end that would have summer it up a bit more, but it wasn't enough to ruin the movie. Good stuff.
