Odds and Ends

On Wednesday, we spent the day at the Museum of Modern Art. The highlight of this visit had to be the piece entitled The Artist is Present, performed by Marina Abromovic. In this piece Marina invites anyone to sit across from her while she sits in a chair, non-moving, looking stoically ahead at the person in front of her. Marina sits in this position all day while people come and go taking as much or as little time sitting in the chair across from her. None of us got the chance to sit with Marina, however some of us did do sketches of her and the other part of her show.
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I would also like to comment on our lastest group dinner. We went to an Indian restaurant called Calcutta. The food was absolutely amazing, and probably my favorite dinner thus far. At the end of the dinner we had the chance to listen to a musician play traditional Indian music on an instrument called the sitar.


This trip has been very spontaneous with many random events and changes of plans. One of these events have been the chance to eat a cricket. For those of you reading this and do not know, Marc is a sort of bug connoisseur. He made us bite sized snacks made from a slice of cucumber, mango chutney, thinly sliced, pickled ginger, and a big fat cricket from Thailand.