Last Day in Brazil

Today was our last hurrah.  We debriefed and shared in the morning. Did a white elephant gift exchange at lunch. Saw more sites of the town (no pictures) We ate our last meal together, laughed, cried, hugged, wished everyone good times and saw the June festival.  All music, food, drinking and crowds!

We leave the hotel about 10 am to get to the airport.  We leave Salvador about 1:30 pm and arrive in Sao Paulo about 4:30 pm. Pick up our luggage. Change from the domestic side of the airport to international. Wait.  We leave Brazil at 9 pm and arrive in Atlanta about 5:45 am. Get our luggage, go through customs, recheck our bags. Wait.  I will leave Atlanta about 9:30 am and arrive in Miami about 11:35am. Get my bags and I am home.  Can't wait to get home but do not want to leave

Interesting Practice

wall of limbs

In Salvador, when people have injuries, aliments or issues with various parts of the body or organs; they pray.  If their prayers are answered and they are cured, then they place a replicate of the organ or limb, sometimes a picture o the person or a letter - thanking for having their prayers answered.  This is only a fraction of what was in this room.  Look closely

close up

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Salvador homes

 In Salvador it is such a steep mountain edge that the homes and stuff are build on the side 

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Collaborating with teachers from Brazil

Today we met with teachers from Brazil who have spent time (5 months) in the ILEP program at universities in the US. They participate in teacher education courses and spend time in public schools.  We developed bonds and friendships.  Our major task was to develop a collaborative project with a group of people. Even though all the Brazilian teachers teach English as a foreign language, I found 2 who were interested in environmental issues. On from Sao Paulo - Edmundo Gomes Jr and Lizia Goncalves Fernandez from Curitiba We are developing a collaborative project with their schools and mine where student teams from all schools research, share and edit a project/ presentation on a topic written in English and Portuguese. They will correct the content as well as the language translation.  We are at the rough draft stage

Old Town Salvador

St Francis church

The group visited the old section of Salvador. They were having a festival. It has very steep hills, small shops into the hill, many levels.  The light house is built on a fort at the apex of the bay. The town flows outward into the hills in a triangle.  The lighthouse was the first thing built. We visited a Franciscan church of St. Francis.  Some of the pictures of of the cloisters and  a panoramic of the gold gilded church  

festival entrance

festival street

cross in front of church

lighthouse

panoramic inside of church gilded in gold

Sunrise over Salvdor

Sunrise at 5:30 this morning.  It is from the 8th floor but block by some buildings

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In Salvador, Bahia

We are in a new state Bahia, Brazil in the city of Salvador.  It is on the north east coast of Brazil. Hopefully I will get up early to catch a wonderful sunrise.  This hotel is the same chain as the Royal Tulip but not as nice and old.  This city is a mixture of poor and rich/new.  The poor live is put together homes on the sides of the mountains right next to or above the hotels, apartments and shopping malls. We are site seeing tomorrow so more images.  These images are from the hotel restaurant window.  It is one of the largest bay areas in the world.

bay area

modern buildings next to bay

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