Camera phones and hipster uniforms
The second annual international art festival of Loja began last Thursday, the 16th of November. On Friday, the 17th, the school I work at organized to be in the parade, both to celebrate its 25 th birthday, and to promote its image in the public’s eye. All the teachers met around three in the afternoon, about a twenty-minute walk from the city center, where we lined up behind a float. The truck had the name of my school in bold letters on its front and a giant globe on the back, which referenced the logo of the language school. The globe could open up into four wedges and from the center a drone arose, with a silk bandana hanging under it that had the school’s logo and a giant 25 on it. Behind the globe sat the two winners of the school’s beauty pageant in elaborate Egyptian costumes, waving and smiling alluringly. Behind the truck walked/danced a row of teachers holding a banner with the school’s name on it, and behind them lined up the gringos in perfect display for the pu