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The second day we arrived in Bahía, we realized that we needed to increase publicity for this workshop so Ale, Jorge, and many of the students headed over to the radio station, La Voz de Las Caras, in hopes that more students would hear about the La Poderosa project and sign up.

While waiting outside for Ale to finish talking to the director, we spotted across the street a line of small children walk by in their little lime green shirts.  They were so cute!  Their school teachers tried to make them sing a song for us.  How adorable. 

 At the radio station we met Marcello Nevarez, an old man with a lifetime of experience in radio and media studies.  He led us on a small tour of the radio station showing us the computer system, the satellites, the plaques, and stories about this place.  I wish I could have understood everything he explained, but I couldn’t get past the Ecuadorian accent. 

Ale and Jorge did a live interview with an interviewer named Jose Enrique about the workshop the dates and about their past workshops in other countries.  Two students stayed to cover the event while the rest walked back home.  I was at home listening along with the other instructors in the dining room area.  The station plays regaton and bachata music but we weren’t sure of the station for a while.  When we finally heard the interview and Ale and Jorge’s voices, everyone cheered and hooted.

Two weeks later, the students that had joined the radio station had finished writing the script for their short film.  They now needed to find people to act the part.  The students wrote their announcement and headed over to the radio station to announce it.  Ramon, a student in the workshop, actually worked in the radio station and was raised up by Marcelle Nevarez.  When we headed over to the radio station the second time, the same DJ that I saw the first time was blasting the bachata music.  When the music finished, he began speaking rapidly in his “DJ”ish voice while some hip hop beat accompanied him and then he began reading the La Poderosa casting announcement making it sound all cool.  I thought it was hilarious how his voice sounded so suave and cool yet his demeanor never changed.  It was as if the DJ talked like this naturally in life.

            Apparently, people were listening both times…the day after both radio station appearances, interested people showed up at the house in the morning.