Women´s Day Take Two

So once again its April 7th and we're celebrating Mozambican Women's Day with
our community. As usual, our youth groups prepared a play, and some songs and
dances. Our theater group has improved dramatically over the past year. With a
little prompting from us, the kids chose to present a piece on being boyfriend
and girlfriend without having sex entitled "Sexo, Liga Mais Tarde" (Sex, Call
back Later).We've been doing exercisizes to get them to focus on more body
movement and gesturing and voice projection and enunciation, and it shows. We
had two canadian visitors who speak no Portuguese watch a practice and they
totally got what was happening just based on our kid's non-verbal skills. Come
April 7th we were all down at the star shaped monument for the ritual of mostly
disorganized holiday celebrating. The women's group forgot their anthum, so
after the first line they just all looked sheepish and mumbled while the local
dignitaries shook their heads in shame. Our groups, on the other hand were all
primed and ready to go. The girls sang and danced with Janet's counterpart,
decked out in various 2011 Women's Day wraps, and then it was time for our main
act. Unfortunately, our compelling theater performance inspired so much
excitement the entire audience tried to squeeze to the front row resulting in a
choking mosh pit crush. Then we all witnessed Janet transform into the
incredible hulk, stop the entire holiday, and parted the seas of squirming
youths so that the show could go on. Wow, that was really exciting, I think our
kid's were impressed with Janet's ability to establish order in such a chaotic
setting. After, the drum corps starting beating their tribal rythms to summon
the Nyau dancers and everyone starting boogie-ing in circles Mozambique style.
We quitely slipped out the back.