Sing Song, Yemanja, and Candobe

It has been a while! I guess I am still not used to this blogging thing. I forget that I am supposed to update this every time something significant happens. Maybe I'll catch on to the routine eventually. Let's see, I guess I left off with last weekend.
Last Sunday the group decided to get serious about Sing Song. In that one day the lyrics and songs were all decided upon and we started practice that night. Since then we have practiced nearly every night. Though we only have 9 people participating in the act we still have different singing parts and real choreography courtesy of Catie Baird and Jaime Metscher. It  is looking like it will be a real act and I am sure I will be spending plenty of time later this week doing some video editing.
Other than starting Sing Song practices we have still managed to have a busy week. On Wednesday we went to a small natural museum down the road for our Spanish Class. Our teacher, Amelia decided that we needed a little break from the classroom. After the bus ride back she even bought us ice cream! She's a great teacher, obviously. Also on Wednesday we went down to the beach where there was an annual memorial, celebration, dedication, whatever you want to call it, to the see goddess Yemanja. She was adopted from African religion and is now almost combined with the Virgin Mary. It was very interesting to observe. Many people were sending out sentiments in the form of food and letters in the ocean as well as waiting in line to be blessed on the beach. I did not really understand much of what was going on, but it was an experience worth having. Afterward we went to a small fair-like area that was right there on the Rambla with our friends from the church.
On Thursday we went to the second parade of Carnaval, Candobe. Candobe is a type of dance inherited from the African culture and the whole parade was different groups performing their own renditions of the dance. Another crazy parade, though. Not quite as big, but still a lot of people in and watching the event.
On Friday we went to a concert at the Teatro Solis. None of us were really informed on what we were going to, but it turned out to be the musical scores of a bunch of well known movies. There was Indiana Jones, Titanic, Jurassic Park, E.T., and Stars Wars. Great stuff. Anyway, I am going to go pick up some muzzerella and have dinner.
bendiciones, Curtis