Our group trained at the School for International Living in Brattleboro, VT., arriving April 15, 1966. The ground was frozen and I walked around wrapped in a blanket for weeks. Vermont more culture shook than Bahia ever was for this very provincial, never out of California native. We arrived August 1st, 1966 in Rio and a few days later on to Bahia. I was to go to Ceará or Alagoas, but there was a bairro in Salvador where a volunteer had started a monthly "jornal" and I had a journalism degree--couldn't read or write Portuguese; didn't even know the alphabet, but I learned. Robert Dutra
8 Feb 2005 |
