Well i can't quite believe it, but i only have 5 days left here in Natal, yesterday I had been on Brazilian soil for exactly 2 months. In some respects it feels like i've been here forever, but in others for no time at all. I don't know quite how I'm going to feel leaving here, as this feels like where I belong right now, just my normal life! Looking back, I have done quite a lot over the past 8 weeks or so, from meeting all the english people in Sao Paulo, to Ca...

The History of Guarapes. I am currently working every morning Monday-Friday, 8-11am in the Guarapes Project, in Guarapes, 20minutes or so out of the city of Natal. It is a favella town, consisting of pretty poor housing, rubbish scattered everywhere (although this is a common sight throughout Brazil), and just generally a place with very little resources/money. The school however, is a very different story, the building is large, clean, there is food, runnng...

Hello all, i've been very lazy with my entries so i thought it was about time i gave you a little up-date. I am now in Natal, a fairly small city (well in comparison with Sao Paulo) on the Northeast coast of Brazil, just south of the equator, so incredibly hot! i arrived here on the 28th January, was greeted at the airport by my host family, Bia (my new sis-not as good as you Rosie though-OFCOURSE!!), Christina (mom) and Cooka (well thats what they call him, dont...