Salvador de Bahia

happy august everyone! i am finally in northeast brazil, which is the area of the country that originally got me interested in studying brazil in the first place. i arrived in Salvador yesterday, excited to stay at my hostel close to the beach....only to discover that really the only thing near the hostel IS the beach (and a supermarket) and it takes at least 1/2 to get to the center of the city. that´s what happens when you book hostels online. :) i think today i will go to the Barra area of Salvador and check out two hostels that are in a fun neighborhood and transfer all my stuff there tomorrow.

rio was uneventful overall - it stopped raining Sunday night, so i went out to dinner with Priscila and Edna, and then Monday went with Priscila to work, wandered the Jardim Botanico a little bit, had lunch with Pri, wandered a bit around the center of the city that i got to know pretty well when i took classes there in January, and then took the ferry home to.............take a nap. i can´t seem to survive without naps these days. :) just hung around the house that night and got up super early to get to the airport for my 9am flight to Salvador.

i´m getting a bit tired of being a tourist....hoping that staying in Barra near beaches and city life will make me feel a little more at ´home´ and provide the opportunity to just hang out on the beach a bunch. and i´ll make sure that when i get to Maceio that i´m definitely near a beach with fun stuff around it.

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