The Canadian nurse . Arriving at Petropolis The Congress registration desk wasthronged as the nurses queued up toreceive their , pins and identifi-cation labels. The Tower of Babel, ofbiblical fame, was relived. One wouldhave expected that Portuguese wouldbe heard most frequently with over400 Brazilian registrants. Actually,the commonest language was were over 350 nurses from theUnited States, 42 of us from Canadaplus smaller delegations from many SEPTEMBER. 1953. Registration corners of the Commonwealth. Soon,even the elevator boys were beginningto understand our tongue. Th
The Canadian nurse . Arriving at Petropolis The Congress registration desk wasthronged as the nurses queued up toreceive their , pins and identifi-cation labels. The Tower of Babel, ofbiblical fame, was relived. One wouldhave expected that Portuguese wouldbe heard most frequently with over400 Brazilian registrants. Actually,the commonest language was were over 350 nurses from theUnited States, 42 of us from Canadaplus smaller delegations from many SEPTEMBER. 1953. Registration corners of the Commonwealth. Soon,even the elevator boys were beginningto understand our tongue. There was good-natured competitionamong the visitors, when nightfallcame, to find for themselves, thenpoint out to their colleagues the loca-tion of O Cruzeiro, the SouthernCross. We northerners were baffled, atfirst, by the fact that the sun movesfrom east to west via the north ratherthan the south as we are accustomedto see it. One mystery of the firma-ment is still unsolved — thenew moon lying absolutely flat on itsback instead of being upright as it isin our hemisphere? The CongressThe opening ceremonies on Sunday,July 12, will not soon be forgotten bythose privileged to attend. The beauti-ful assembly hall was jammed withnurses, many of them in their nativecostumes, and scores of prominent citi-zens from Rio, especially invited forthe occasion. One slightly distracting
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