Day 22: BEACH

Day 22: BEACH

During class we discussed the important things that we have learned in the internship. I think almost everyone agreed that the things we enjoyed the least were things out of our control, for example the buses and organization. Everyone enjoys the internship from what I heard, and we are all learning a lot, not only about Brazilians but about the way to interact with people outside our culture and with each other.

There is a bus strike going on. The drivers want a raise of 30%, but that’s not happening so there is limited transportation for us, especially those in Piedade, the buses already take an hour for us to catch. Vanessa let us have the day off.

We brought our swimming suits with us to class, and changed in the bathrooms.

We spent about three hours on the beach. Most of the time was on the shore tanning, because the beach here has a ton of sharks. We have to be careful and aware of our surroundings at all times.

The best thing that happened was Mitch and Matt, two boys from the study abroad, are super white and they were asleep tanning. People would walk by them and say galego or gringo, meaning white guys. But the best part was that these two women were taking pictures of the beach and all of a sudden one of them stands in between Mitch and Matt and starts posing and taking pictures! It was so funny.

It was a really nice day. Later that night I went to the mall with the family. I bought new shoes. Shoes are a huge deal in Brazil. The women always have nice shoes on. They may be wearing just tank tops and jeans, but their shoes are always beautiful. Then we ate Brazilian sushi, again this is an example of globalization.

The sushi was not in a roll form, but the seaweed was in a ice cream cone shape and the sushi was stuffed into the cone, it was still delicious. I love sushi.