Thursday, May 30, 2013

May 30, 2013: Corpus Christi in Brazil



Inter UFG!
Today, the feast of Corpus Christi which is a national holiday here, I attended the opening games of Inter UFG. The games are held at an athletic club near the college and the students attend the games all day. We watched basketball, soccer, handball, footvolley, and futsal. When we were entering the club, the first sounds you could hear were the drums from the night before and I was so tired since we didn’t arrive home until 5:00 AM that I did not know how I was going to survive listening to them all day! But, it ended up being really cool to hear. The students use the drums to cheer for their teams on the field/court and so have some very sophisticated cheers (though I cannot be sure that the words are not a little vulgar…). Part of the day after watching the soccer game, we spent with our rear ends wet because someone thought it would be a good idea if we sat on the field next to the one in which the game was being played. It was not….


After we watched the soccer game...