Sunday Morning

For aesthetic purposes, I've decided to put more pictures of Brazil from my first exchange up, since I still can't upload them from my camera (but I'm working on it). My Saturday was spent at a beautiful house in Lauro de Freitas (a city just outside of Salvador) listening to guitar-playing and singing, while accompanying on drums (more specifically, tam-tams, I'm intent on becoming a professional tam-tam player by the time I get back to Montreal so I can spend my Sunday's at Parc Jeanne Mance). I think we spent about four to five hours straight of just playing music (after a delicious lunch of course: Brazilian feijoada, which is a typical dish of black bean stew with beef and sausage poured over rice). Later on, we went to the "Lavagem de Arembepe", a party that normally occurs 15 days after Carnaval in the small municipality of Arembepe. It was a bit like my Carnaval replacement, since I arrived too late in Brazil for Carnaval. There was a lot of people, and a lot of arrocha-style dancing. If I were to have taken a picture, it would look more or less like this: 

Walking back to the car after the festa, I managed to step in an ant hill. It was a good reminder for me to never walk relatively close to bushy areas, and that ants in Brazil (the ones I met, anyways) bite. Today I was planning on trying some body boarding for the first time, but it is pouring outside right now, which might even be a good thing because I am already starting to have a lot of schoolwork to do. 

Despite the title of my blog, and the fact that my exchange is going really well, I'm still missing everyone in Canada and feel lucky to be born a Canadian. So for some of you, don't worry, I don't plan on living here forever (just a very long time). 

Houses in Cidade Baixa (Low city)

Praia de Jaguaribe (Jaguaribe Beach)