More Portuguese tests, please

This whole thing happened TUESDAY...ages ago, I know but the internet access has been worse than shaky. So here goes.

Since we had a big ole Portuguese test yesterday morning, we had the afternoon free to do as we pleased. By the end of the day I had forgotten that I had even taken a test.

After class I walked around by campus with a couple a friends, dawdling and meandering our way down the hill toward the ocean. It was a good hour or so walk once we got going (we took the circuitous route) that was made even better by various fruits and pastries purchased en route. The weather was trying to decide whether to be nice or cloudy all afternoon, but by the time we hit the beach the sun had won out. We did lots of beachy things (swimming, being lazy, fending off vendors) and hustled over to the lighthouse on the point just in time to have missed the sunset. Oh well, it was still a gorgeous evening.

I hopped a bus with my friend Allison and had dinner at her house (a welcome and pleasant change – SEAFOOD!), performed a quick change operation and hit the road to salsa.
If you have never been to a live salsa concert, go. Now. I went into the “historic district” of Salvador – Pelorinho – last night with a couple of friends to see a salsa show. Tuesday night is bigger than the weekend is in Pelorinho, but definitely the kind of big where you go without a bag of any kind and with your phone and money holstered in various places on your person. We got into Pelorinho at around eight and could hear the music from at least four blocks away. The salsa band plays at the bottom of a series of fifty or so steps. People dance all the way up the steps and spill out through the gates into the street. The whole affair is outdoors (it would be suffocating anywhere else) and incredibly exciting. We danced our way up the steps and found a little space high up. The music had a fantastic beat and I could not stop dancing, plus there were quite a few guys more than willing to humor me on the dancing front. We stayed for a couple hours and would have loved to stay longer but the catching a bus back part had to be done. Pelorinho is not somewhere you want to be stuck at night with only a taxi as an option. We got the last bus out and made it home easily