Day 11 At 5:30am our surrogate mother, Cecillia, woke us up and we got off the bus. We were dropped off at the side of a motorway so we were relieved to have her there to sort everything out. As we'd been heading furthur south to Uruguay we could feel the drop in temperature and were glad to have taxis waiting for us to take us over the boarder. While we were queing to get our luaggage from the hold Jasmin wasn't listening to the yelling drivers as she turned...

Day 7 Today was pretty much uneventful, after waking up and checking out we headed to Sao Paulo. Here we had a chance to get food, after a string of unlucky events involing food the short story is the resultant factor of me hating Sao Paulo bus station but I won't go into that! Here we got the first night bus of the trip, I was really impressed with this though! Reclined almost 180 degrees and really comfy! So Faye and I settled down with a film and then fell...

Day 1 As it was arrival day we made our way down to the hotel lobby for our initial group briefing. With 13 other travellers in total, 11 girls and 2 boys (3, English; 4, Austrailian; 1, Scottish, 1; German; 2 Danish; 1 Canadian; 1, American) we were all excited to get to know each other and were sure we had a good group! After the briefing we heading out for dinner, walked around the night time markets then a few drinks on Copacobana. Day 2 This morning we...

After leaving the daycare and favella behind with our t-shirts (gifts from the classes we worked with) we headed back into Copacobana. With the sun finally shinning again we were ready for the weekend. As it was Ann's last night we decided to go to a nice restaurant and experience some good Brazillian food! As been vegatarian is not easy here I had the one option call the 'vegetarian' so I was excited for my surprise to come - hoping it wasn't going to be ...

Where was I, oh yes... a waterfall of s***, delightful! So on the return to the favella the rain came down, oh it poured! However with my Duke of Edinburg training I crerated a quick day bag waterproof cover to protect my precious belongings! Anna 'Bear Grylls' Willis I was referred to...anyway! Feeling pretty aprehensive as still not a massive fan of living things, especially wild rats running down narrow steep steps while the s*** is following down from the t...