Already Friday?

As I suspected, time is going TOO fast here! But the things we have learned and seen make all the difference.

Yesterday (Thursday) was probably one of the most fantastic days yet. In the morning, we had another BRILLIANT speaker who spoke of liberation and citizenship theology. Each lecture we attend becomes more and more thought provoking in regards to our world and culture. My mind runs 10,000 miles a minute before I go to bed at night....

At about one in the afternoon, in hopped on our bus and traveled again to Porto Alegre where we visited a quilombo. A quilombo is a settlement of fugitive slave descendents and, though most are rural, we had the priviledge to visit an urban one.

The experience was amazing. Our Wartburg soccer players got to play their game with some of the kids (who were quite a match!). Simply walking down the streets jam-packed with history was enough to place us in awe. We were even blessed with a traditional drum performance, which blew us away! Truly being immersed and interacting with these beautiful people made me fall in love with this place and culture...and it´s only Friday!!

´till we meet again :)

p.s. it´s raining....did Iowan clouds follow us here?!