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Monday, July 24, 2006

The more I see of Chicago, the more I like it



Chicago, as any other major city, has a big foreign population, but the difference with Berlin for example, is that here they are divided by neighborhoods, not only the big majorities, like the Mexicans, but all the rest too.
Yesterday, after having brunch at the
bleeding heart bakery, Camilo and I went to Devon St, which is the Indian area and right after it, the Russian – Georgian area starts as well. The place is awesome, not only the restaurants, but the stores and basically the people. They have all sort of grocery stores where we bought fresh coconut and drunk out of it (Camilo never had that before, so, it was kinda cool), jewelries, hair saloons, where you can get all the Indian kind of make up and tattoos, lots of clothes stores and a couple of bridals clothes stores, where we saw how to plan an Indian wedding, what to wear and the most beautiful wedding dresses for the nice amount of $12.000. Which is actually worth it and not very expensive, because everything is handmade. All the movie rentals where Indian and seriously, apart from the few people who knew that the groceries and specially the fruits up there are better, everyone was Indian.
After a long walk we cross from India to Russia, where icons and matruskas were everywhere. We got into a Georgian bakery, (which remind me of Anna and her Georgian love) and saw this very old Georgian guy, making with a lot of patience the Georgian version of the pelmeni. Going back home, we stopped at a
Humboldt park in the Puerto Rican neighborhood, where people just get together and start making music every Sunday, if you have can find the beet and know how to play an instrument, you just walk into the circle and follow the rest. The park is the second biggest park in Chicago, after Grand Park and has lakes and a lot of beautiful trees, so we ended the day picnicking there with all the food that we bought in the other 2 neighborhoods.
GREAT DAY!!

1 Comments:

Blogger Kafre said...

Hola, que bacano que se ve chicago, nunca he ido alla pero la verdad me encantaria conocer, las fotos estan bacanas, si algun dia pasas por Atlanta me dejas saber

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