Walking around for two weeks in Buenos Aires, a couple of things are weird for us. Like everyone has a tattoo and all men have long hair or beards.You have to kiss everyone on the cheek! Its like saying 'hello"! You have to kiss everyone back otherwise its disrespectful, even your tennis teacher,a waitress and a taxi driver. Men meeting up and kissing eachother is very normal in the streets here. When we talk with them in our best Spanish (remember - No one speaks English) often they talk about the history of the country. There are soooooooooo many stories, monuments, buildings, and streetnames and squares named after famous people that we started with a visit to the National museum of History of Argentina (and it happened to be right on the corner of our street in San Telmo!).
HISTORY - NAMES AND DATES.
It is clear when I walk around there are 2 very important dates in the history of Argentina what you find back on street names & monuments all over Buenos Aires:
1) May Revolution from 18-25Mayo 1810 is the start of the revolution on the famous Plaza, now well know for demonstrations like the ones from the Mothers of the Plaza (see next week's Blog)
2) War of Independence from the Spanish ruling, 1810-1818.
Funny how this story looks like what we just learned in school about the Boston Tea Party and the American Independence. Also Argentina was such a colony with on one side the Royalist who wanted to stay loyal to the King of Spain, the ruler of an area of which Argentina also belonged to. And on the other side there were the Patriots who were not happy with all the taxes and the rules and wanted Independence.
After a war the Patriots finally won and this is when Argentina became Argentina; on 1818
The National Museum of the history of Argentina was interesting. It had many paintings from battles and real things from the time in the past like an old flag, old maps and chairs and pencils and even an old piano which was also seen on one of the old paintings.
Unfortunately there was no explanation in English - only in Spanish language. Anyway, it was nice and Steven liked very much the old guns that were standing outside the museum. He had never seen such weird shapes guns. Oyes, the quards were not nice. They had nothing to do the whole day and when I touched a glass by accident he started yelling at me in Spanish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not so very long ago Argentina has also 2 well known stories I like to mention. These events you still see and notice in the city, because they were so recent and they still write about it in the papers and on TV.
The first is the Dirty war (Guerra Sucia 1976-1983) as they call it, where the military Government Army ruled the country in an extreme violent way. There are still 1000 of people missing and every Thursday the Madres de Plaza de Mayo are protesting for attention that their children are still missing.
The other one was the period before that of Juan & Evita Peron (1953). At the bottom the presentation I did for school and more details.
Evita Peron museum
Every week - for homeschooling- we get a subject/name which we have to do 'desk research' for. After that we go and do the field research, like visiting a museum or going to see a monument. Then we have to give a presentation about the subject. This week my brother had to present the Inca Empire and culture and my presentation was about Eva (Evita) and Juan Peron.
Eva Duarte Peron & Juan PeronOn July the 26th 2002, 50 years after Evita’s death, Christina Alvarez Rodriguez introduced the Evita museum in Buenos Aires
The Evita Museum is housed in a beautiful old house/mansion build for the Carabassa family during the first decade of the 20th century.
This building was named a National Historical monument in
1999. The Evita Museum forms part of the of the tourist attraction in the City of Buenos Aires.
What we thought about the Evita Peron museum
We thought it was a luxury, big house/museum.There was much to see and to learn. There were many beautiful dresses and hats which Eva Peron owned. There were short original movies that were black and white about when Evita helped Orphans and poor people 
and her foundations was all about helping the poor people of Argentina and getting the right to vote for women. There were also many wonderful paintings of her.When we came in there were flowers for her with candles so everyone still cares and misses Evita and Juan .Pink House
The pink house is in Buenos Aires in the middle of the city situated on Plaza de Mayo. It is the national government building. During the past 100 years all the protests and introduction of new presidents took place in front of this building. This building is also famous because of the speeches of Juan Peron and the last speech of Evita Peron before she died of cancer at the age of 33.
Gracias
Loes
My presention you find is you click on :
