Salvador in Photos

Here're some pictures Karen shot during her stay here. They're numbered from bottom to top. I'll post more pics in the next posts, as the blog server will only allow about five pics per post. PIC ONE: This is Joachim. He sells great necklaces and earrings on the beach, and is a great guy. He was kind as is possible, and helped us feel at home on our first walk to this beach, Praia Fado (beach at the lighthouse).

PIC TWO: The dessert attendant at our first churrascaria just loved Karen, and even brought her out some homemade dessert made of brown sugar.

PIC THREE: Here's Horacio, Itana's husband (good friends who've made the stay here a fluid, seamless experience all around -- Horacio and I get along great though he speaks about as much English as I do Portuguese), anxiously awaiting the next round of filet from a churrascaria cutter.

PIC FOUR: This is me at the ACBEU welcome breakfast explaining what I plan to present. Notice the interlaced hands -- I tried to express how much I hoped to learn from Salvador, as much as the professors here might gain from my presence. Also notice the look of the woman in the foreground who seems to be saying, "Who IS this guy?!?"

PIC FIVE: This is the wonderful view from one of Horacio's skippers (Horacio runs a sailing school in Salvador, VERY successful, and extremely cool), Fernando's, sail boat as we make our way from Bahia Bay to Ilha Neves, where one can find possibly the bext moqueco in the world.

OTHER NEWS: This week I delivered two presentations, one concerning composition strategies, and one concerning technical writing class and curricula strategies, and I believe the composition presentation was much more appreciated. The techincal writing concerns may have been a bit left of center from what many of these teacher's do, and I think they may have wondered why I was even presenting the information. Still, some seemed to believe it was beneficial to what they might do in class, so it wasn't a total wash.

For Thursday, Friday and next Monday, I'll be presenting composition strategies, creative writing, and writing from the academic world for the ACBEU in-service. Should be a busy few days!

Cheers!