Stayed in the city this whole weekend for the first time since before the GEO LAC meeting in October... Met some really interesting people, "assisted" an event at a film school and a couple house parties, even made attempts at learning to dance at a cabaret called Casa Blanca (same name as the hotel in Pie de la Cuesta but very, very different). Didn't get home until after 5 either morning... Good times.

[Anna (Swedish intern working at UNIFEM with Maria) didn't remember my taking this picture in the washroom of the cabaret at 4:40am Sunday, right before we went for tacos & quesadillas. What you don't see is the sign addressing the "senoras" and requesting their cooperation in showing up Mondays and Saturdays, as "the establishment is in the process of recuperating clients, and it just won't do if the ladies don't show up on Saturdays"; also, the note called for their earlier arrival, as male clients had apparently been showing up and leaving for lack of available women, "which had been harming both the establishment and the ladies themselves, as the men are frequenting other businesses" - go figure. I think we (the 6-ish of us gals) were probably the only paying female customers in the place; most of the others were "professionals" ;)]