Saturday, November 18, 2006
Well my trip is going to end soon. Scott flew to Rio on Thursday and goes back to the states on Sun eve. I'm leaving to Rio on Monday and flying to the states on Tuesday. I'll arrive in Boulder about midday Wednesday.
Last nite after the roda at N'Zinga we were hanging out at a bar playing music and singing like we often do and I really started to feel sad that I was leaving Bahia, cuz I live for moments such as these. However moments after I had this realization this bloke pulled up in his car and started blasting some loud, obnoxious pop music. I really wanted to go over and tell to fuck off. But the rest of the folks from the group just rolled with the punches and started dancing and playing around to the terrible music.
That kind of sums up my experience here in Bahia.
On the one hand I had many incredible opportunities to learn and meet wonderful people.
On the other hand things like the filth and bad music conspired to put me in a bad mood.
The Baianos had an admirable sense of flexibility and resilience, you can see it in instances like my story, you can see it in the way the play Capoeira, always moving and flowing with ebb and flow of the game.
Last nite after the roda at N'Zinga we were hanging out at a bar playing music and singing like we often do and I really started to feel sad that I was leaving Bahia, cuz I live for moments such as these. However moments after I had this realization this bloke pulled up in his car and started blasting some loud, obnoxious pop music. I really wanted to go over and tell to fuck off. But the rest of the folks from the group just rolled with the punches and started dancing and playing around to the terrible music.
That kind of sums up my experience here in Bahia.
On the one hand I had many incredible opportunities to learn and meet wonderful people.
On the other hand things like the filth and bad music conspired to put me in a bad mood.
The Baianos had an admirable sense of flexibility and resilience, you can see it in instances like my story, you can see it in the way the play Capoeira, always moving and flowing with ebb and flow of the game.
# posted by Larry @ 11:01 AM 
