BRASILIA, Brazil — First lady Michelle Obama met with about 50 Brazilian youth ambassadors, took in a martial arts-dance presentation and was wowed by a group of female samba drummers during the first day of her and President Barack Obama’s five-day tour of Latin America.
Waving and smiling as she entered an open-air space in a restaurant shaded by palm tress, Michelle Obama electrified the crowd of youngsters, many of whom have taken part in a State Department program that sends them to the U.S. for cultural exchanges.
“Bom dia! Is that it? That’s all I have, unfortunately,” Obama said as she greeted the group with the Portuguese phrase for “good morning.”
Obama, accompanied by daughters Sasha and Malia, and by her mother, Marian Robinson, drilled home a message she has repeated to youngsters around the world: Education and trying to understand other cultures are some of the best cures for the globe’s ills. The Associated Press
