This is what we call a good day.
I'll soon be heading off for a post-GRE cocktail...or five. I am very happy to report that I got an even better score than I even let myself hope for!
q: 570 (not exciting in general, I know, but I feel like I had to study a LOT and still have good luck to score this high on the quantitative).
v: 750 ~I would've been happy with a 700!
So after that little event, Joseph and I went to Olvera Street to pick up some Halloween costume stuff and have dinner. We were sitting out on the patio of this nice Mexican restaurant and this procession goes by for Dio de los Muertos...I guess the procession is called the 'Novenario', and is something they do at night for a week during the festival. It basically consists of all this: a really loud mariachi-sounding band (minus the guitars) with all kinds of brass, a huge bass drum and a guy with a snare, with a little boy in the front playing a recorder. The band is followed by a couple ladies in some kind of Aztec-inspired ceremonial garb carrying huge pots with incence burning, and then a whole posse of people, adults and kids, dressed up in costumes with skull masks. Also in the group was a bunch of those Aztec dancers that we seemed to keep running into in Mexico City. All in all, I have to say that El Dia de los Muertos is one of the coolest holidays around. Someone was dressed up as Frida Kahlo (I could tell by the unibrow drawn onto her skull mask), and she blew me a kiss after I yelled "Frida, I love you!"
After all this Joseph and I walked back to the car and it was the beginning of a beautiful clear night in downtown L.A. There was a thin little crescent moon hanging over the street behind L.A. city hall, and we were just very happy.
Time to go see the friends.
q: 570 (not exciting in general, I know, but I feel like I had to study a LOT and still have good luck to score this high on the quantitative).
v: 750 ~I would've been happy with a 700!
So after that little event, Joseph and I went to Olvera Street to pick up some Halloween costume stuff and have dinner. We were sitting out on the patio of this nice Mexican restaurant and this procession goes by for Dio de los Muertos...I guess the procession is called the 'Novenario', and is something they do at night for a week during the festival. It basically consists of all this: a really loud mariachi-sounding band (minus the guitars) with all kinds of brass, a huge bass drum and a guy with a snare, with a little boy in the front playing a recorder. The band is followed by a couple ladies in some kind of Aztec-inspired ceremonial garb carrying huge pots with incence burning, and then a whole posse of people, adults and kids, dressed up in costumes with skull masks. Also in the group was a bunch of those Aztec dancers that we seemed to keep running into in Mexico City. All in all, I have to say that El Dia de los Muertos is one of the coolest holidays around. Someone was dressed up as Frida Kahlo (I could tell by the unibrow drawn onto her skull mask), and she blew me a kiss after I yelled "Frida, I love you!"
After all this Joseph and I walked back to the car and it was the beginning of a beautiful clear night in downtown L.A. There was a thin little crescent moon hanging over the street behind L.A. city hall, and we were just very happy.
Time to go see the friends.