Dia Nao sei o que ("...")

Quote of the day:
Josh: "It's been a couple days since I've read the material that we're going over in class today."
Me: "What if Vanessa asks you a question today regarding this material?"
Josh: "Then I'll just remember really hard"

Probably the most entertaining day of my life and also the most educational. We talked about globalization, how it will come about, and what will happen if it does. My teacher Vanessa brought up a question:
"Is globalization a good thing?"

I was thinking "of course!".

The rest of the class: "It depends" ...

Glad that I didn't say that out loud. I would have had to JUSTIFY it, and then I would've looked like an idiot: "Because everyone wants McDonalds and CocaCola on their front step!!"

A danca de Forro!!!

That's not my funniest joke, but the point is that those two companies are the two biggest symbols of globalization in the world. The risk with globalization is that you risk losing a country's identity and culture by trying to make it more universal with other nations.

I STILL  think that overall, it's a good thing, but I'm more than willing to hear counter-arguments to change my weak-willed stance on this subject.

The most important and productive item of business today was going to CCJ and getting a really cultural experience!

Doug and I playing a hand game with the children. Doug is like 6'6 and I'm not that much shorter *cough*
so we both had to bend over a lot...

We arrived at the school to find several dozen kids playing around. There was that first, awkward couple of minutes as the barrier of language, age, and racial differences took hold and set fear in our hearts. But this quickly gave way to the benefits of being there. We played games, watched forro, I even participated in the barraca do beijo(Kissing booth). Each person that participated got to take a candy off the table in front of me. It was interesting to note that the after the candy jar ran out, almost nobody came towards the kissing booth.

Confrontation with a menina(girl) who was clearly wanting to participate in the kissing booth for candy.
One of my last participants if not the last.... (she holding everything that was remaining in the candy
basket at that time).

In other words, it was a great day.

Thanks for reading!!