Whoa, back to cold weather. But since that is boring I will fill you in on the rest of my time in Brasil. From Thursday through Saturday we spent our days at the World Social Forum. There were about 200,000 people there... 30,000 alone who were camping out. It was sooo crazy. There were millions of workshops to choose from on topics like human rights, HIV/AIDS, privitization of water, coca-cola campaign, fair trade, you name anything in the social justice arena and there was a workshop on it. It was such a great learning experience for me. Meeting so many different people was definitely the highlight of the trip. On Friday night, just our Methodist group (about 60 ppl from all over who stayed at this methodist college in town) went to a traditional local steakhouse. There were waiters who just came around with big shish kabobs of various types of meat. The weirdest kind I had was chicken heart, sorry to my vegetarian friends. And then during our meal there was traditional samba and other dances performed by dancers on this center stage. It was so beautiful and full of color and vigor. After the dancers finished their performance the dance floor was free with some crazy good Brasilian music. Of course we all danced and I felt like a clutz, hardly possessing any rhythm. Luckily I had several men (who were a part of our group) volunteering to teach me. I don't think I can ever dance with American men again. I have to state for the record that Latin men are the best dancers ever. We all had such a good time that night. Sunday night our last night we had a small party just for our group after our action meetings. The highlights of the party were colored plastic cups making the design of the flag of Brasil and singing songs and doing Brasilian dances to which I cold hardly pronounce the words. I am dying to learn portuguese now! I want to go back to Brasil sometime really soon. I now have friends all over the country. It is such an amazing place.
But now I have only a short while until my next international adventure beginning Saturday night. I have very mixed emotions about excitement for Kenya and longing for Brasil. Wishing you all the best winter! Don't forget to drop me an email sometime soon. segillespie@gmail.com
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