you should just read THIS post that liz wrote last year because it's still really on point. we went to the MST settlement this past weekend and liz nails it. (the whole movimento is so inspiring; people are living this, it's more than possibile.) plus also the stuff about school. not that i make it any easier for myself, spending hours upon hours on my lappy being lame and spoiled and majorly procrastinating with everything.
in other news, tomorrow is the first day of ceará music, which is touted as the largest music fest in south america. not brasil, south america. latin america, even. all different types of music -- rock (say: "hockey"), reggae (say: "heg-gee"), rap (say: "hap"), and forró (say: "fo-ho"). i would go, but my host brother can't afford it, so i feel weird going when he can't. plus i haven't really made the appropriate plans. i feel like i may be missing out though.
i'm kind of tired of fortaleza. either i wish we had more free time (well, tomorrow is a feriado [holiday] - dia das crianças [children's day]) or that i was in salvador already (and could settle into my blackness better). i'm beginning to kind of wish the program was structured differently (more like vicki's, perhaps). among other things.
anyways, i'm really behind in my work and am thirsty.
send me some love, please, any way you know how. miss you like you don't even know.
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that music fest sounds amazing! when i was in france there was something similar-esque called "fete de la musique" and where there was music in the streets everywhere. however, the bands were like sleazy white french men doing bob marley covers.
I missed ceara music too, it was the weekend before we left salvador. Carter and the others said it was amazing though. I hope you get to go to Salvador soon and experience what it's like when dark skin in the norm. It's pretty amazing.
There are no black peeps in spain. pues... casi, casi.
And most that I have seen are with whities on their arms.
sad.
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