We came to Mossoro as you all know to do some fruit picking for IPO a companY that supply fruit to ASDA. Ari (From IPO) drove us to Mossoro from Natal, it was proving too expensive for us to stay in a hotel here so he very kindly offered to put us up in his appartment. So we now have an adopted Brazillian family who actually want to keep us!!!

We arrived in Mossoro Saturday after a full history lesson on the way...we are officially Brazillian citizens now! yay!

Went for an all you can eat Brazillian buffet (fully funded-not by us!) bonus! with our families friends, very interesting as hardly anybody can speak English!Becks decided to eat chickens heart....mmmmmm. Passed out in our new Princess pink bedroom.

Day 2
Today we had a birthday BBQ for Ari´s 40th at the pool of the appartment, drank lots of Pitu and coke, Brahma and ate lots of beef. Charlotte refused to go into the pool so Becks decided to throw her in fully clothed- good one!! Pervy Jeremy got an eyeful!

Day 3
7am start- let the melons begin. Agricola Famosa here we come!
Spent half a day in the packing house wearing boiler suits, gloves and hats...sexy! However despite this we managed to still become famous!

Free lunch of the traditional rice and beans and sugar with a little coffee!

Maria Theresa- the agronomist rescued us from the packing house...taking us on a tour around the farm to see melons from start to finish. We saw the seeds and the planting and the guys in the field picking the melons...we later found out that we were actually underqualified for this job and therefore had to remain in the sweat shop sticking stickers on melons and pushing the cellophane into the boxes...serious stuff!!!

We tried to keep Theresa talking so we didn´t have to go back to the packing house! We dont think anybody had ever seen English girls before as we clearly were hired as the freak show!!

In the evening after taking the workers bus home from the farm we had a birthday tea for Ari. Went to bed in anticiapation for the 5am start.

Day 4
PACKING HOUSE......SWEAT..BLOOD AND TEARS

5AM start..went in search of the workers bus, however due to communication issues we were waiting for the bus in the wrong place and caused quite a stare with the locals..3 blondes sitting on a bench in Brazil at 5am..hmmmm

So the bus never came, Ari had to drive us to the farm..such liabilities!
Spent the WHOLE day in the packing house with Popo and the crew..our clothes became a darker shade due to pure sweat in the 35 + degree facrory with no air con..whose idea was this?! GORNALL?

The Waitrose stickers didnt survive the 100 mile per hour speed and our lack of skills on the line..we got in trouble by the line manager quite a few times and then he just gave up! So next time you eat a melon..take a minutes silence please!

3pm....we´re over it! Thank you and good night! Charlotte realized it was 25 mins past break time and walked out mid melon, closely followed by Kat! Becks was committed to the melon and told she wasn´t allowed to leave!

Break time was spent plotting our escape....needless to say day 5 didn´t happen!!

In the evening we went to uni with our adopted mum and went into a Portuguese lecture..fame again...Followed by a trip to the smallest shopping centre in the world!


Day 5
Lie in after the galia dreams....sunbathed by the pool and then took the girls to school..we were famous again. Had a guided tour around Mossoro and met the whole family communicating via google translator! LOST IN TRANSLATION!

Went out for sushi and all u can eat pizza inc. chocolate pizza! Theresa and her brother (fit) came to meet us and took us to the praica for drinks.

Day 6
Denny took us to the beach which was desserted- a nice change. Tonight we are going samba dancing with Denny´s nieces to the ´BOAT´!