When we got to the guardaria today, Veronica had not shown up. The other womens' solution was to shove all the kids into the hands of Lau Lau and I with zero instructions. After wringing our hands for a few minutes, we began to organize songs and games. In the end, though we ended up combining all the groups at the guardaria (significantly fewer on account of the vacations that started that day) and playing with them outside while one other woman supervised. It was really wonderful wrestling with the kids, pretending I couldn't quite grab their shoes when they were on the swings. Giggles galore. Sara and Gabriel came to visit, since they had worked at this very center last summer, but hardly recognized anyone.
After that was a delightful day of "hanging out with friends"--something I'd almost gotten out of the habit of doing. We wandered Parque Carolina and Sara and I shared some Durham Bulls reminiscing over cotton candy. We climbed the tallest spine of the Basilica and talked for hours (mostly in Spanish). In the evening we watched a Brazilian movie (Portuguese with Spanish subtitles) that was a little too artsy and obscure even for my taste--although it provoked an interesting conversation afterwards with Gabriel who is hyper openminded.
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