Dancers
Another beach day, went around noon and was able to have a
swim since the waves weren’t as rough as yesterday. Beautiful sun and a breeze
all the time, the temp around 32 and still no rain since I’ve arrived. Sun was nice, now I’m slightly tosted.
Since this is an oil town there are a lot of expats but the
only ones I see are the people who live in the same building and wait for their
ride to work at the same time as me. They are all young and most likely engineers
and the like, working in the oil industry. So far I haven’t met another Canadian who
lives here, at school the staff is ALL Brazilian, wonderful people to work
with.
Another gigantic street party tonight, there is a huge
bandstand built on a flat bed of some type, (in fact it reminds me of an
Acadian Lines bus with a flat top) for a stage. The flat top bus/stage on wheels moves slowly
down my street all day till it gets here at almost dark. There are thousands of people who follow it
dancing and drinking. A big water tank
truck drives in front of the dancers spraying them with water. A beer truck is
also as part of the entourage where there are giving out free beer. There is a
big band on the stage and with dancers too. It is loud, I went down to the
street wen it came close and watched, when it passed I could feel my whole
chest vibrate. It is the prelude to
carnival. Can’t wait too see what the real Carnival is like if this is just the
beginning.
