Ok...
The itinerary for both groups has been nailed down and we are all excited! I am sure it will be a wonderful experience for all of us.
But, before I go to Salvador to meet the Bahia Street groups I will spend a week in São Paulo. Crazy and huge São Paulo, where part of my extended family lives and where I have very dear friends.
Every time I go to São Paulo I follow a simple 'coming home' one day ritual, which includes visiting the open market to buy what I don't find here: sweet passion fruit, juicy papayas, lime oranges and sardines for a Portuguese style escabeche. Then I go to my favorite little restaurant around the corner to satisfy my hunger for Brazilian food: rice, beans, very pungent arugula and local grilled sausage. After that, I go by my favorite hair salon and let myself be pampered from head to toe. By the end of the day, I am ready to go meet my friends at a nearby favorite bar for ice-cold beer and long warm hours of story telling.
After this simple and delicious ritual, I will attend to other matters... Yázigi, income taxes, meetings, new project designs, house in Boiçucanga, bank and dentist. Yes, I guess I do have a life in Brazil...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Leading a trip to Brazil with Bahia Street
In a month or so I will be leading two study groups in beautiful Salvador, in the state of Bahia.
Study trip participants will spend ten days in Bahia hosted by Bahia Street, a Seattle- and Salvador-based non-profit organization working to break cycles of poverty and violence through education.
Over the course of ten days, we will explore diverse areas within Bahia, including a small fishing village, an interior river town, a nature preserve within the Atlantic rainforest, and Bahia’s capital city, Salvador da Bahia. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with people from different backgrounds and learn about different facets of Brazilian and Bahian society.
The Bahia Street Society, Equality, and Change study trips explore race, class, poverty, and society in Bahia, Brazil. It introduces participants to people making a difference in their communities in and around Salvador. It allows participants to go “inside Bahia” and experience Salvador through the eyes of its African-Brazilian majority. Overall, the trip is designed to be both fun and educational.
If you would like more information on the trip, please visit www.bahiastreet.org/trips/
We can still accommodate new participants in our second group, from May 15-26, 2009.
Study trip participants will spend ten days in Bahia hosted by Bahia Street, a Seattle- and Salvador-based non-profit organization working to break cycles of poverty and violence through education.
Over the course of ten days, we will explore diverse areas within Bahia, including a small fishing village, an interior river town, a nature preserve within the Atlantic rainforest, and Bahia’s capital city, Salvador da Bahia. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with people from different backgrounds and learn about different facets of Brazilian and Bahian society.
The Bahia Street Society, Equality, and Change study trips explore race, class, poverty, and society in Bahia, Brazil. It introduces participants to people making a difference in their communities in and around Salvador. It allows participants to go “inside Bahia” and experience Salvador through the eyes of its African-Brazilian majority. Overall, the trip is designed to be both fun and educational.
If you would like more information on the trip, please visit www.bahiastreet.org/trips/
We can still accommodate new participants in our second group, from May 15-26, 2009.
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