This morning Lowell arrived! Since his hotel does not have a phone (what?!), we decided to just drop by the place and sure enough he was there ..uff!
After another buffet lunch and delicious abacaxi suco (pineapple juice) we decided to get serious.
The World Social Forum has tons of activities starting from tomorrow. Their main website, however, is inaccessible and shows ‘error’ all the time..hmmm some communication problems are inevitable, I guess?! So therefore, we decided that today’s mission was to physically get to the forum site. The forum is held at the two main universities: UFPA (Federal University of Para) and UFRA (Federal University of Rural Amazonia). We figured the bus was a good way to get there.
Taking the bus in Belém is an adventure on its own. The buses here drive like crazy. Whenever your bus passes you have to hail it like a cab, otherwise it will not stop. Tons of people are gathered on the sidewalk ready to jump in front of their bus..so of course we did the same.
After a 45 minute wild bus ride we got off at UFPA to register, only to find out that registration was held on the other site..UFRA. Arrgh, back on another bus! Once we got there we ran into our Dutch friend Peter… although he is a typical tall Dutch guy, what are the odds?? This time he did not, however, ask whether "can you eat this?", too bad though, I would have laughed!
Anyway, we got into a huge tent and the registration stands were set up according to language. There was no line at the English stand so the deal was done in 5 minutes! Great! We got our WSF bag, the whole program and a pass… very smoothly!
Tomorrow it all starts! I can’t wait!
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glad to hear you all got registered-- waiting with great anticipation to hear all about what you learn. however, the unexpected lessons in biology were also a treat, parrots, bugs, even some nice plants. only one question-- did you see any electric fish? they are most definitely there!
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