Everyone is gettting sick, slowly, one at a time. They are picking us off like we are nothing. We are running on a skeleton crew. Mayday, mayday, please send reinforcements! No, but really it has been crazy lately. Luckily it hasn´t gotten to me, and it is going to stay that way.
Friday night we were invited to BYU Prom...which was really a Stake Dance kind of thingamajiggy where they wanted us to come and teach them some line dances....and by ´they´ I really mean the leaders, the kids were all chanting for them to keep playing forró music all night, but it was still fun. We spent our last day of class brushing up on the boot scootin boogy and the electric slide, and then we went all out and learned the hoedown-throwdown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fds_vawxE2Y&feature=related
That should be the link for that song, as a warning it is from the Hannah Montana movie, so if you have anything against Miley Cyrus than avoid it at all costs, but the dance is kind of fun actually!
Yesterday we went to a museum that was about the Northeast people. There were all sorts of cool things in there, and really disturbing ones that they used on slaves, it is sad to think of how terribly they were treated. My favorite part of the museum was this
This is a huge pot that they would boil sugar cane in, but I fondly refer to it as my people-cooker-pot and decided that if I ever decide to take up cannibalism (which is actually frowned upon in most societies in case you didn´t know, though when I was at BYU Hawaii mom sent me some girls scout cookies, some of which were the ever so tasty Samoas. Needless to say I just so happened to have some friends from Samoa and when I gave them a taste they no longer wondered why Maori´s used to practice canabilism because they all suddenly knew exactly how good they tasted!). Anyway, back to my story, if I ever take up cannibalism (cause anything is possible with the economy these days you know) I need to get me one of these. Honestly, it would be a nice way to go, just like getting into a hot tub ;)
My song that goes with it is ♫ ´slide down my rainbow, into my peoplecookerpot, and we´ll be jolly friends forever more-more, shut the door, yackety yack and don´t ´bite´back!´ ♪
I just told Erika that I would post this picture for her, it reminds me of her and of Heather and is a general shout out to any and all girls that enjoy showering and then getting ready before getting dressed, this is from the museum we went to weeks ago. This is an actual painting, made me laugh, sorry if it offends anyone. Just imagine that she is a baby, you look at naked baby bums all the time when you change them and when you look at their photo albums (for some reason people are obsessed with taking naked baby pictures, what to the evs is what I say!)
Back to the museum we went to yesterday, just a few more photos.
There were a lot of pictures and objects in the museum from slaves as I already mentioned and that leads into the culture that is super strong in Salvador. We fly there tomorrow by the way, woot woot. It is sad that our time in Recife is over, but we have so many exciting things coming up that it makes it worth it. And besides, that means that I will be coming home to all of you sooner than you would think, bahahaha, you thought you were rid of me forever, well sorry to burst your bubble, but I will be back! Anyway, there is still a huge African influence in Salvador. There is a lot of Candumblé and Maracumba which are mixtures of African beliefs and the Catholic religion. There are some scary things that go along with these religions, dark stuff. Think along the lines of curses and voodoo and black magic. We´ll be super careful, now worries, but I am excited!
Just a little bit of fun at the park tonight. The picture above is of us doing a thing, like a racing car or horse or something, where you move your lips really fast...the next ones are of us doing our chub faces. Above you have Matt, Michelle and me, in the chub faces picture we have me, Michelle, Brady, Carla and Cristina, and below is me and Michelle again, we are too cool for school if you couldn´t tell! And mom, are you so proud, look at my painted fingernails, will wonders never cease! I have painted them more since coming here than ever before in my entire life!
This is a candid photo where you shake your head really fast and take a picture just so you look really deformed and exciting, I turned out aweseome right! We had a goodbye party in the park tonight for Carbonel, he is one of the head honchos for CCJ, where we did most of our internship, you know, the one that helped us grafitti in the favelas! I will post a picture later of him, his wife, and me with his hair as my hair. Yes, actually I am growing out a big black afro, thank you for asking! You will see what I mean...one day ;)
These last photos are just a collage of pictures and memories from Recife, I am bidding a fond farewell to this beautiful place. Not just Recife even, but all the places we have visited so far. Some might be on other posts that I have already done, but I love them so you just get to see them again!
This is from Catamarão, they had quite a few little things that you could take pictures with, one was a mermaid, one was really weird and this was the other one, the captain and his first mate, aren´t we cute! The picture above is when Carla and I went to the beach. We had gone the week before and could walk out to the reefs, we went the next week at the exact same time and the tide was completely in and there was no beach-what the heck! But still beautiful.
Just a little fisherman out earning a living while riding, or rather rowing, into the sunset.
Above we have flooding in the streets, we took a bus through this to get to CCJ, they just drove through like it was no big deal. The picture to the right and the one below were taken on our boat ride at Catamarão where we just got to explore a lot of Recife by boat and the rivers.
Just some sights around Recife, it is a big city with tons of beautifl things to see.
This old, crumbly, beautiful building is donw in old Recife. We went there on our first day of classes when we went out to meet them people from CCJ. They showed us around this area and this is where we got to meet all the kids and just have fun. Below is the Recife temple, I love how beautiful our temples are, no matter where you go there is just a feeling there. Even just looking at a picture of a temple, it is peaceful.
This is a crafts store from Caramaru, they just had a bunch of these lined up and down the street with whatever you could ever wish for inside
Above is a picture of the sunset in the sertão, to the right is a picture inside of the Brenand museum and below is a picture in the favelas where we went to graffiti.
Some figurines. They have a weird fascination with making ones of pregnant women, it is kind of funny. Some other funny ones that they have are the ones that show different professions, so there is a dentist pulling a tooth out of some persons face and there is blood, or a doctor sticking something up someones little behind...they choose the most random scenes for the people to be in.
These were taken out in the sertão, Afogados I think is the name of the place. The table above is a kind of game (mostly played when people are drunk I do believe). From what I understand you flip a coin and whatever circle it lands on you have to do that, some of them are funny like, walk around like a monkey, and some were probably inappropriate, but I didn´t understand them anyway! The monkeys below, they were living in a tree in the courtyard of our little inn, so cute.
This is from Natal when we rode the doon buggies. this is part of the track we went on, doesn´t it just look like so much fun? Below we have, what I think I was told, sugar cane fields. They are super pretty, super green and everywhere on the way to Porto de Galinhas
Fish from Porto de Galinhas, they loved to nibble my hand and they totally freaked Berkely out when she tried it, she has a hard time with fish trying to eat her. I don´t understand it myself but you just have to smile and nod! Below is from our doon buggy ride as well at one of the stops we made to take pictures.
The saibloats from Porto de Galinhas. Below is some yummy pizza that we got when we went out to eat with our family-so tasty!
These are just some of the local crafts, I am absolutely obsessed with the little figurines of the Bahian women like the ones to the right and also two pictures down. These ones are big, super nice and more expensive, but I bought a few of the smaller, less expensive ones and they make me super happy! Also below is a tray that has seeds, fruit, leaves and different things in it. I bought a clock that is similar to this and I absolutely love it!
Aren´t they beautiful?!
These are two more of the corn dishes that we got to eat all throughout the month of June. In the picture above is corn on the cob and then the other thing is what I made, if you remember the picture of me with a hairnet on holding some weird stuff-well that is what came out of the weird stuff!
Above I have Gil on the left and Sílvia on the right. I love these ladies and am sad to be leaving them, of course I will get to see them the day before I fly out of Recife so that will be great. To the right is a picture of one of the awesome guys that work in Sílvia´s building. They are security people and are in charge of opening the doors and the gate to the garage to let people into the building. If you aint on the list then you aint getting in-luckily we were on the list. He usually works in the morning and is always super friendly and nice.
Friday night we were invited to BYU Prom...which was really a Stake Dance kind of thingamajiggy where they wanted us to come and teach them some line dances....and by ´they´ I really mean the leaders, the kids were all chanting for them to keep playing forró music all night, but it was still fun. We spent our last day of class brushing up on the boot scootin boogy and the electric slide, and then we went all out and learned the hoedown-throwdown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fds_vawxE2Y&feature=related
That should be the link for that song, as a warning it is from the Hannah Montana movie, so if you have anything against Miley Cyrus than avoid it at all costs, but the dance is kind of fun actually!
Yesterday we went to a museum that was about the Northeast people. There were all sorts of cool things in there, and really disturbing ones that they used on slaves, it is sad to think of how terribly they were treated. My favorite part of the museum was this
My song that goes with it is ♫ ´slide down my rainbow, into my peoplecookerpot, and we´ll be jolly friends forever more-more, shut the door, yackety yack and don´t ´bite´back!´ ♪
I just told Erika that I would post this picture for her, it reminds me of her and of Heather and is a general shout out to any and all girls that enjoy showering and then getting ready before getting dressed, this is from the museum we went to weeks ago. This is an actual painting, made me laugh, sorry if it offends anyone. Just imagine that she is a baby, you look at naked baby bums all the time when you change them and when you look at their photo albums (for some reason people are obsessed with taking naked baby pictures, what to the evs is what I say!)
Back to the museum we went to yesterday, just a few more photos.
There were a lot of pictures and objects in the museum from slaves as I already mentioned and that leads into the culture that is super strong in Salvador. We fly there tomorrow by the way, woot woot. It is sad that our time in Recife is over, but we have so many exciting things coming up that it makes it worth it. And besides, that means that I will be coming home to all of you sooner than you would think, bahahaha, you thought you were rid of me forever, well sorry to burst your bubble, but I will be back! Anyway, there is still a huge African influence in Salvador. There is a lot of Candumblé and Maracumba which are mixtures of African beliefs and the Catholic religion. There are some scary things that go along with these religions, dark stuff. Think along the lines of curses and voodoo and black magic. We´ll be super careful, now worries, but I am excited!
This is a candid photo where you shake your head really fast and take a picture just so you look really deformed and exciting, I turned out aweseome right! We had a goodbye party in the park tonight for Carbonel, he is one of the head honchos for CCJ, where we did most of our internship, you know, the one that helped us grafitti in the favelas! I will post a picture later of him, his wife, and me with his hair as my hair. Yes, actually I am growing out a big black afro, thank you for asking! You will see what I mean...one day ;)
These last photos are just a collage of pictures and memories from Recife, I am bidding a fond farewell to this beautiful place. Not just Recife even, but all the places we have visited so far. Some might be on other posts that I have already done, but I love them so you just get to see them again!
Just a little fisherman out earning a living while riding, or rather rowing, into the sunset.
Above we have flooding in the streets, we took a bus through this to get to CCJ, they just drove through like it was no big deal. The picture to the right and the one below were taken on our boat ride at Catamarão where we just got to explore a lot of Recife by boat and the rivers.
Just some sights around Recife, it is a big city with tons of beautifl things to see.
This old, crumbly, beautiful building is donw in old Recife. We went there on our first day of classes when we went out to meet them people from CCJ. They showed us around this area and this is where we got to meet all the kids and just have fun. Below is the Recife temple, I love how beautiful our temples are, no matter where you go there is just a feeling there. Even just looking at a picture of a temple, it is peaceful.
This is a crafts store from Caramaru, they just had a bunch of these lined up and down the street with whatever you could ever wish for inside
Above is a picture of the sunset in the sertão, to the right is a picture inside of the Brenand museum and below is a picture in the favelas where we went to graffiti.
Some figurines. They have a weird fascination with making ones of pregnant women, it is kind of funny. Some other funny ones that they have are the ones that show different professions, so there is a dentist pulling a tooth out of some persons face and there is blood, or a doctor sticking something up someones little behind...they choose the most random scenes for the people to be in.
This is from Natal when we rode the doon buggies. this is part of the track we went on, doesn´t it just look like so much fun? Below we have, what I think I was told, sugar cane fields. They are super pretty, super green and everywhere on the way to Porto de Galinhas
Fish from Porto de Galinhas, they loved to nibble my hand and they totally freaked Berkely out when she tried it, she has a hard time with fish trying to eat her. I don´t understand it myself but you just have to smile and nod! Below is from our doon buggy ride as well at one of the stops we made to take pictures.
The saibloats from Porto de Galinhas. Below is some yummy pizza that we got when we went out to eat with our family-so tasty!
These are just some of the local crafts, I am absolutely obsessed with the little figurines of the Bahian women like the ones to the right and also two pictures down. These ones are big, super nice and more expensive, but I bought a few of the smaller, less expensive ones and they make me super happy! Also below is a tray that has seeds, fruit, leaves and different things in it. I bought a clock that is similar to this and I absolutely love it!
Aren´t they beautiful?!
These are two more of the corn dishes that we got to eat all throughout the month of June. In the picture above is corn on the cob and then the other thing is what I made, if you remember the picture of me with a hairnet on holding some weird stuff-well that is what came out of the weird stuff!
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