Day 9: Graffiti-caught blue handed!

Soooo, today we got to paint and practice our graffiti skills on the walls in our classroom because on Saturday we actually get to go out and graffiti on real walls here in Brazil, holla!  The coolest part is that we will be doing it in some of the favellas around here and so it is to help make them look prettier (so I don´t know why they want my help with that, I am not very good at the whole drawing and painting thing, but it will be cool).

Other than helping Trent out with a shirt or two this was my very first time getting to use spary paint and it was a lot of fun.  The word in the middle is esperança which means hope, and the letters at the bottom stand for the place that we are doing the internship.  The circle has hands all around it and some holding it up, together we have hope and we can do anything.  I definitely did the last set of blue hands at the bottom of the circle and sprayed on the yellow around the J and around all of the letters in Recife, I am good right!  So like I said before one of the focuses of this group is to teach people art skills, then they send them back to their community to teach others and beautify the area.  Not only do we get to go and do that in one of the poorer areas, but we also are going to help paint at this place and make it look nicer.  And all the while we get to teach them English words and phrases, wahoo!

Not to make anyone jealous or anything, but kind of-this is my view on the way home from our internship.  Brazil is so beautiful!

 We got some time to go to the beach on Saturday, this might recall to your minds a rather stunning speedo that I posted yesterday, yes, this picture was taken on the same day, no, I am not going to post that picture again no matter how much you beg, you will just have to refer back to the original post to see that masterpiece!
    However, this will prove that other eventful things did happen that day, though they are not quite up to the same standards ;)
     We had coconut water, out of real live Brazilian coconuts, yummy!  Sara is on the far right and Berkley is in the middle, I love these girls, they are two of my best friends out here and we just love hanging out.  I stayed with Sara´s host family my first night here since neither of our roomates had made it yet and she is just a fantastic person!

Yeah, they finally caught me, this brings to mind a song...

♫

Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law
Law man has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home.

Oh Mama, I've been years on the lam and had a high price on my head
Lawman said 'Get him dead or alive' and it's for sure he'll see me dead
Dear Mama I can hear you cryin', you're so scared and all alone
Hangman is comin' down from the gallows and I don't have very long

Oh Mama, I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law
Law man has put an end to my running and I'm so far from my home

The jig is up, the news is out
They finally found me
The renegade who had it made
Retrieved for a bounty
Never more to go astray
This'll be the end today
Of the wanted man

♪

 This is a member family that lives in Piedade, they are fantastic.  Sara´s brother Jonathan is living with them along with Brady.  We have gone to a lot of church activites and dances with them and they treated us to açai a few nights ago, which was fantastic.  In this picture they are making food...out of corn of course!  The lady in pink and an apron is actually American, her family is living there, the husband is the bishop of this ward.

 These other two pictures go along with the parties and the celebration of Festa de Juninos.  Here is a band that was just walking through Casa da Cultura, a shopping place that we went to, and people were just dancing along with the music.  The accordion is very popular with the kind of music they listen to and dance to down here, the forró and the other kinds.  The whole place was decked out and they had all sorts of fun places to take pictures besides the jail one, here they had two hats hanging from the roof.  For these parties people draw on freckles, braid their hair in pigtails, wear plaid shirts and straw hats and pretty much dress like hicks, it is a lot of fun!