The 5 hour drive south of Rio to Cambury was tiring but it was filled with beautiful scenery of the coast of South America. I sat next to Diego, one of Dr. Ghavami's master's students and we talked for most of the commute; I learned more Portuguese and he learned more English so it was a nice compromise. He is from Colombia so his primary language is Spanish although his Portuguese is perfect! To get to Cambury from where we were staying at our cabin was about a 10 minute drive and then a 3km walk downhill to the community. My bum bum hurts from walking down hill for so long.
When we got to Cambury, Eduardo, the main manager of the bamboo community center began the tour and description of the structural aspects of the building. Our purpose was to assess the community center after it was built by Belgian architects (www.bamboostic.be) nine years ago for the good of the Cambury community. The center was in beautiful shape and we learned a lot about how the community uses it's local resources to harvest, treat, and build with the bamboo. Marcelo, our tour guide was super excited to be at Cambury and hear about everything that the community has done with bamboo--I think he was more excited than all of us haha.
Overall the trip was very good and very eye-opening of the local and rural culture of Brazil, specifically in the context of bamboo! Hooray for bamboo :D
Tchau, tchau~~
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