Dia das Crianças

 All around the world, people celebrate "Children's Day."  Some countries celebrate this in June, others in November, and Brasil celebrates "Dia das Crianças" on October 12th.  To commemorate this day, my city had a mini festival in the park and royally invited all of the young-ins for a day of free games and food.  I went with my Interact club to help out.  Interact is a group of people, all minors, who are associated with Rotary and hold the same objectives, but mainly focus on community service.  Although I wasn't able to participate in this group back home, I am a part of the club here and am loving all of the events and opportunities it has led me to- as well as the great people I have met.








This festival was one project we did.  We went to help however we could and I found myself stationed at the ice cream stand- not the worst job I could have gotten!  The kids were tired and hot from the games and of course EVERYONE wanted ice cream, so the mad rush that came when they announced that ice cream was now available was amazing and chaotic!  Our flavors were chocolate, uva (grape), abacaxí (pineapple), morango (strawberry), and limão (lime).  It was an adventure to try to decipher which flavor each kid wanted, what with the loud music, the sound of the crowd, the kid's timidness and therefore quietness, and the fact that it wasn't English, all against me.  But I managed and found delight in being one of the people to tell each kid that yes, you can have one strawberry AND one chocolate if you'd like.