Back to the Beach

im back in Salvador and back to my sunny, solitary beach life. Montevideo was interesting -it was a place I never would have visited on my on. It was very pleasant, orderly and seemingly easy living. The food was ok – except that they had a thing about cream sauce that would have given the brits a run for their money. In every restaurant the first thing they serve you is bread with a bowl of mayonnaise. It also was pretty chilly there for the most part and being back I realized that im now used to waking up to sunny, beautiful weather and people walking around in bikinis. However their wine was delish – (if anybody can find Uruguayan wine in nyc – holla back. Their grape is called tannat) and everything seemed incredibly affordable – much more so than brasil where the dollar keeps spiraling down with a great sucking sound.
The week ended up being ‘real-world Fulbright’. In the course of 6 days there was intrigue, rock-star partying, a mugging, bonds made and broken, friendships formed, a fight that lasted the entire week, inappropriate racial comments said at least once to each of the three black women in attendance, drunken conversations with government officials, and at least one (probably two) CIA plants. By the end of the week we were all exhausted. But it was inspiring too- and great to hear about everyone’s project. I also bonded with the other film person who is based in rio and doing a really cool project on youth media with kids in the favelas. And I found my gay boyfriend who was a riot and had my rolling most of the time.
now its back to me trying to conquer portuguese like they did brasil!