It isn't just election season in the U.S. Salvador is going through elections that are WAY more exciting than U.S. political muck. Cars drive around the city with the names of political candidates plastered on the sides, blaring competing music along with political slogans. Maybe not the most politically aware way to choose candidates, though picking the candidate with the best music may be at least as intelligent a method as many US citizens will be using in November. Speaking of which, I saw five Obama signs in a walk around the old city today. Haven't seen a McCain one yet so maybe the Brasilians are on to something.
As for my situation at this point...I am living in a condo a half hour outside of Salvador with the whole group of thirteen other girls, one of the group directors and his wife. This is the orientation phase of the SIT business so we're gonna be here until we get dropped off with our host families on Sunday. So at this point we're learning about the culture and the city and hopefully a tad bit of portuguese (all the important stuff like "ice cream"!) The group seems way cool thus far (hopefully will stay that way too) and really excited about the whole program.
And tonight we SAMBAed! A woman came over to teach us with two brothers who played drums. It was a two hour festival of sweaty dancing (its HOT here, even in the evening) but it was super fun. People walk with the samba rhythm here and apparently if you don't have the rhythm it's super obvious that you're a gringa. So my personal plan is to get the rhythm and meld.
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do you samba in sambas? some how i don't think so. but they might at least help you get it in your step, right? i mean, what else would adidas have been thinking? brendan
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