Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Colombi days

my grandparents are originally from Spanish North Africa they had seen Barcelona before they decided to move to the Americas and remembered the famous Christopher Columbus statue:

Once they were moved in to Caracas my grandmother sent a letter to her relatives back in Morocco written in ladino:
Its very nice out here, the weather is great and their customs so different. They have built a statue of columbus that sends a very powerful message. If the Barcelona one says: Go to America it's great. This one says: So what? if you don't like it go back!
The Barcelona statue points toward America and the Caracas one points back to Spain.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

that's so cute, I thought you only put math here...

Last of the Gray said...

You want comment you get comment

Its Bryan, just got a silly pseudonym to go with the blog

Maybe we need to see where all the statues in the world and see where all the vectors of their fingers point.

MichelleK said...

this is hysterical. your grandma was a witty one.