Featured Post: My Neighborhood
Original: Mi Barrio
I am going to tell you about about my neighborhood as a little tour just in case you decide to come visit here. If you visit Santa Cruz, don’t forget to pass by here. The neighborhood is located the zone called Plan 3000. The tour will start from the new bus station, where one can take a bus (lines 85, 59) or a taxi for those who want some comfort. But let us suppose we take the line 59.
1: Going out from the station you go towards the Tres Pasos Avenue until you reach the third Ring, then you enter the neighborhood called Estación Argentina (Argentina Station).
2: In this neighborhood, one finds the School – Fe y Alegria Aniceto Arce (Faith and Joy) and the church in front of that school; next you will pass by the square, in which there is a police station. Before it became a square, it was a market where people stocked up their needs.
3: Continuing with this tour, you will reach the Fourth Ring where you also enter into the neighborhood Cañada Pailita, and where you might bump into the threshing machine.
4: Continuing straight on the avenue you will see shops for accessories, food, and even karaokes. Ending along this avenue, when you reach the curve you enter to the market of the Plan 3000.
5: Next to Mechero Avenue, you will enter Plan 3000’s beautiful plaza. It is large and one can relax. They are building a small complex, although I am not sure if that is the correct name of it, but there will be a place with small barbecues and other thing. When they finish it, I will tell you exactly what it is.
6: When you go along the Paurito Avenue, you will see the most interesting place during the entire tour – the school, which was built with the help of the Project Hombres Nuevos (New Men). There is also a small castle built by its owner, and later you will arrive at the Los Pocitos market.
7: From this same little market, the neighborhood begins. You will realize that it is a low-lying area because when it rains it gets full of water and we must go out from our homes in a canoe. Well, do not believe this, it is just a manner of speaking, as the streets seem like a river. But when it is sunny, it is a very peaceful place.
Translated by Jose Gregorio del Sol Cobos
