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My computer broke so I lost all my pictures that weren't on here, orkut, facebook or my camera... so that's sad, but he's some pictures to keep the blog from dying completely (sorry mom and dad and whoever else is checking this semi-occasionally)...

Macall (Nova Scotia) and Sofie (Denmark) doing capoeira. that would be our master to the left, Mestre Washington. he's such a cool guy.

Washington helping us stretch and showing how unflexible Macall is

Pretty much the only thing I do with Macall and Sofie, other than watch movies, do capoeira and argue, is make pancakes. SO MANY PANCAKES. we loves us some panquecas, oh yes.

what did I say? we used like six different pans we couldn't find the right one. (we put beer in these pancakes to make them crunchy)

Macall sucks at making pancakes, and thus we wound up with scrambled dough-in-a-pan, Canadian specialty.

me and Sofie at Zara, this European store improbably placed into the Iguatemi mall in Salvador

oh yea and a little thing happened in February called Carnaval...lots of people

...more people...

....hey whaddayaknow, more people...

... people wearing the same clothes as the people next to them...

View from the Camarote in Ondina. Apparently it goes on like this for several kilometers. 2 million people a day for six days.

So many people I can't even fit the concept in my head...

...hey this is getting kind of redundant, no?...

traffic cone man and friend

there's no way to turn it, but that's IVETE SANGALO

and so's this. of course she sang the most obnoxious Salvador Carnaval song, Cadê Dalilah? (Where is Dalilah?). it's sickeningly annoying.

big puddle because of course it rained on Carnaval...

random street performance in Pelourrinho, the touristy old part of Salvador

I don't know who they were or why they were doing this, but I think they were singing in Italian. though I could have been way off.

gotta love Pelô. and masks. and guitars and accordions.

cool day

more performers, doing what Sherise (the Florida girl) seemed to think was a rain dance around the praça, quite close to the 'masked Italian accordionists'.

bright setting sun. that's the Elevador Lacerda on the right (one of the symbols of Salvador and Bahia)... look it up. it costs 5 centavos (which is about 2 American cents) to ride it up and down from the 'Cidade Alta' to the 'Cidade Baixa' or vice versa (High City to Low City... there are two parts of Salvador, didn't you know that?)

more capoeira, Macall and Sofie

yea I do capoeira too, I'm usually the one taking pictures though... the master is the one in the blue pants (I have new red pants now haha!) and Capri is the one who has no capoeira pants yet. (she's from Bermuda)

my first naive attempt at starting dreads didn't work

Yeah, we're Rotary Youth Exchange students. Yeah that means we're better than you. (Capri freaking out, Macall on the phone/pretending to be emo/Me awkwardly trying to be part of the picture... it's one big happy family down here, youbetchaya)

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