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A Day in My Life

5:30-7:30: Whenever my eyes have had enough of the early morning sunlight, it is time for my body to get up (yes, it’s sunny around 6 here in Salvador, Bahia).

8:00: Café da Manhã (breakfast), which usually consists of coffee, fruits, bread, cheese, and presunto (a slice of ham).

8:20: The Walk. My NGO is about a 35 minute walk from my house. In the beginning, I attempted to take the bus, but I soon realized it was more difficult, not worth the wait, and costly. My walk there is definetely a chance to witness what a normal Bahian morning looks like. Vendors, construction workers, and passersby fill the streets.

9:00-12:00: NGO. I work with Instituto Aliança in their Esporte, Lazer e Cidadania (Sports, Recreation, and Citizenship) project. My morning is spent either playing or watching soccer with youth from socially at-risk neighborhoods. There is the occasional basketball or handball day, but those are, like I said, occasasional. I roam the facilities speaking with the secretaries and the janitors, passing the time and taking a bit of my time to learn more about them and Bahian culture.

1: Lunch. Rice and beans! Everyday! Yum!

2-7: Insert random family activity.

7: Dinner. My host mom loves to cook. Whether it be feijoada, carurú, or pizza. Dinner is always delicious.

7-10: More family time! Soccer games get wild. Firecrackers and simultaneous screaming from every house in the neighborhood. Novelas (Brazilian soap operas) make the people here very emotional and very pensive; still, Brazilians are heavily invested into them.

11-12: Time for bed!

Jayshawn Anderson

About Jayshawn Anderson


Jayshawn has recently been involved with the community in a small town in Ecuador. He has visited twice in the past year to help teach English and computer classes. He is passionate about the issue of wealth inequality in the United States, and does not believe that economic growth should remain restricted to the 1%.

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