Cristina L Abad

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Teacher, Researcher, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Professor @ ESPOL, CS @ Illinois alumni, Fulbrighter
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Cristina L AbadDec 31, 2022
At midnight, every Dec 31st, Ecuadorians burn “año viejos”, paper mache dolls meant to represent the parting year. Traditionally, they were modeled after something you wanted gone (we bought a Covid-19 año viejo in 2020), but nowadays they are typically made in shape of famous characters, memes, and the occasional politician. This is ours this year, too cute to burn, but one must keep with the tradition 🫠
More: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/world/americas/ano-viejo-tradition.html
Años Viejos: Torching the Old Year to Toast the New One

In parts of Latin America, the traditional burning of rag dolls was used to symbolically banish the woes of the year gone by. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see TV hosts and ex-presidents going up in flames.

Cristina L AbadDec 31, 2022
Just saw this (amazing) map on the bird site and decided to post a picture of a group of penguins on the Galápagos Islands. We took this close to Isabella (island), on March 2019.