During our last week of class in Salvador, we went on a day long excursion to Ilha de Mare with local UFBA nursing and dental students (we had class at the same university so sometimes we would awkwardly interact with them). The Island is about a 40 minute boat ride off the coast of Salvador, and is also the home town of one of our academic directors. Our program was split into smaller groups, combined with the UFBA students, in different neighborhoods all over the island. We spent the day doing health promotion activities with school-aged children and their families.
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| The boats that we took to Ilha de Mare |
On the island, my group worked with elementary schoolers on dental hygiene. After putting on a puppet show with tooth puppets, we did a fluoride demonstration that turned all of the kids' teeth neon pink. Apparently, the fluoride tasted awful because all of the kids winced and tried to scrape it off their tongues.
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| the neon pink realization |
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although the kids hated the fluoride, they were really into the camera
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After spending the day playing with fluoride and children, we went to our academic director's neighborhood for a samba/farewell party. I think I drank my body's weight in coconut water, and almost learned how to samba (which is really just shuffling your feet as fast a possible). To finish our adventure, we caught a beautiful sunset on our way back to Salvador.
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| sunset in Praia Grande (hometown of our academic director) |
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| UFBA students and our group mid sunset |
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