Time to be a Tourist

Today, we went on a great tour of Salvador! After lunch, we were loaded onto buses and were guided around the city. We learned tons of great history about buildings and churches, met the mayor, started a flash mob, made the national news, and there was even a parade in our honor! The sucky part is that none of that is true. Well, the parade bit is sort of true. With 2,000 people walking through the streets of Salvador, the police had to shut down a couple of lanes for us, and so cars waited and people watches us walk by, so it was kind of like a parade. What really happened is after lunch we walked through the slums of Salvador to get to the historical center and then to the Catedral Basilica and Terreiro de Jesus. We weren't guided by people that knew the history of the city, so we just looked around. Once at Terreiro de Jesus, we waited for 45 minutes, and then performed a flash mob to the MAGIS theme song and to another song in Portuguese that I don't know. It was a lot of fun, but we practiced for it in the square where we performed it, so that was weird. Also, my whole group was tired after walking and rehearsing, so when it came time to actually do the dance, only Kyle joined me. Bt we did make it on the national news, and we had a five minute segment, which I guess is good because it means that the news stations had no other important things to report, like riots. After our flash mob, we walked for another 2 1/2 hours, and got back after dinner was supposed to start. So we got no free time, but it was ok. After dinner was the Nations' Festival, which was a cultural show from a bunch of the countries at MAGIS. My favorites were Mauritius and South Korea. That just ended, so I'm going to bed. Check out our flash mobbing on the MAGIS website! http://magisbrasil.tumblr.com/ TTFN; ta ta for now!