Thursday, February 16th, 2006- Sight of the Day- No particularly interesting sights- but tomorrow I’ll see the President of Brazil and the Archbishop of Canterbury!
- Temperature- Mid 80’s with some rain and a lot of humidity
- Price for Lunch- $3.20 American (for two sandwiches and soda)
- Price for Dinner- $4.75 American
- Cool Conversation(s) of the Day- Bartholomew, a Benedictine monk from Belgium and a professional religious reporter…Soren, a classical organist from Denmark who’s interested in global music….and a youth steward from Vancouver, Canada, on the bus back to the hotel
- New Insights: I’m beginning to think that my Christianity has been incomplete because I haven’t had the opportunity to build relationships from Christians in other contexts, especially internationally. If you never have had a chance to interact from Christians around the world, I can’t recommend it strongly enough. In America we are far too narrow minded and provincial….there’s a rich wealth of Christian wisdom in our world that we are utterly unaware of.
- Portuguese Word of the Day- Sanitarios- Bathroom (One of the most important words in Portuguese)
- Amount of Sleep Last Night- 9.5 hours (a record for this trip by a long shot)
- Quick Quiz- Which even today do you think will be most likely to make my mother gasp in horror and worry?
- A) Nearly getting crushed in a crowd getting onto a bus on Tuesday
- B) Wandering alone in downtown Porto Alegro in search of food (okay, so just a block, but that’s okay)
- C) The sound of a broken bottle and a cop pulling out a shotgun on the driver of the car next to us while someone in our bus tells us to “get down”
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