Day 3: Corn Flavored Icecream?!?!

Yes!  We found the right bus today and instead of taking 50 minutes to get to school, it only took 20 minutes today, holy cow! Kevin, I have no idea how you walked around all day and had energy to talk to people and keep going, especially in pants and shoes, yuck!  It is so hot here and everyone is just sweating buckets all the time, I think the pores on my face are tired from all of it already ;)
    

Danilo with his corn flavored icecream wrapper.

 But about the corn flavored ice cream.  We had this little man with his orange ice cream truck following us around Olinda today where we took a tour of the city, it is super full of history and has a billion really old churches.  Finally our director took pity on him, or maybe she got tired of the rumblings coming from Danilo´s stomach (he is ALWAYS hungry) and so she bought him an ice cream bar which he quickly figured out tasted like corn, bahahaha!  Right now they are having their celebrations, Festa de Junina, which is to celebrate the harvesting of the corn.  They make all kinds of dishes out of corn and have parties basically throughout the whole month.  I guess that it even goes so far as to affect the flavor of their ice cream.  Here is a picture of the infamous ice cream man!

   I included this picture of the beach because I think that it is really cool, now I just need to get another one where we have our feet buried in the sand there and it looks like everything is emerging from the black lagoon.
 






  Brazil is fun, I think that everyone should come here and try it out sometime, hint hint!  We are starting to get the bus system down, they don´t stop at every bus stop, you have to waive them down like you do for a taxi if you want them to stop for you and then push a button or pull a chord to get off, but they only open the door in the very back to let you off unless it is super packed.  And by ´super packed´ I mean it has to be pretty extreme, that is why we missed our stop, or rather the stop after our stop yesterday was because we couldn´t get to the back of the bus so even though we had pulled the chord, it was no bueno.

     Everyone is super nice, I love the people in this group already, and it is fun because I haven´t noticed any real clicks forming, everyone is just friendly and accepting of everyone else so that makes it awesome!