What a first day in Salvador!
This morning, after walking on the beach, around town, or just reflecting on our past two and half weeks here, we hopped on a bus for a city tour. Each city we visit proves to be more beautiful...Salvador is rich in history, art, culture....
Salvador, like Rio, Sao Paulo, and Porto Alegre, is also rich in poverty. It was hard to see how close the rich and poor live together here. It makes me wonder...how can the rich live side by side to such poverty-stricken people and not do anything about it?? But, then I tell myself....unfortunately...we do the same thing in the United States.
We got to do a lot of walking around the historical part of the city, which was home to beautiful and elaborate churches...we visited two, and we ll were in awe.
I think, though, many of us are tired of being and living as tourists. It was very hard for me today especially...when we were walking down the streets many people came up to us begging or trying to force some sort of goods on us. We, unfortunately, had to completely ignore them and go on our way. I had a moment today where a women who looked like she had been beaten and malnurished for sometime was asking our group for change...we were told to ignore...so we did. It was in that moment that I wished I could be doing something about those causes- rather than being a tourist.
all in all...quite the day......
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