Well, campaign season in Cape Verde has officially started and while Peace Corps Volunteers are restricted from politics, it is interesting to observe from afar. I live on one of the main roads in my town which is also the second largest on the island so there is a lot of movement. Since yesterday there have been cars going down the road blasting music and making announcements. Today's announcement was that at 6, there will be an assembly which of course is practically in front of my house. I took back roads to avoid the crowd as I came home from batuk practice. Anyways, the party that is doing their assembly today is playing music loudly and yelling into the microphone as people are playing with flags that they handed out and occasionally cheering. Children are arguing over who gets to play with the flag that one of them managed to get hold of. If elections were this exciting in America...
Oh, now everyone is yelling Viva. More on this later...
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