So now I've already left Rio and I'm at Aline's place in Sao Paulo. Enjoyed my last morning in Rio at the beach and then cought the Bus to Sao Paulo. It's odd to be travelling again through Latin america without Amina, but I think I'll manage by myself=) So jsut to let you guys know where I'll be in the next few weeks: Sao Paulo until the 29th of April when I'll be flying to Argentina. There I'm gonna go to Mendoza, Cordoba and Buenos Aires and then on the 13...

Well living here for nearly three months now I keep getting to know more and more f the brazilian culture. All I'm writing about are my personal impressions and how Im experiencing Brazil, but someone else might tell a complete different story... Brazil is an amazing country, it offers a lot of great things, but it's also a country with a lot of problems. The biggest problems in my opinion are lack of education and missing organisation. They are the things that w...

The brazilian police has many different forces. Usually they are to be seen standing in the streets, heavily armed, doing nothing. At least this is my impression=D Appaerently, since more people are required to work in the police for the world cup people could do a three month course to become a policeman. They must be very well qualified=D In Lapa, where there are a lot of bars and clubs, there are always four policemen on horses. Usually standing around, jus...

So what does my daily life look like? What projects am I working in? I feel like I thought I'd feel more useful in the projects around here. I wanted to do this community work and volunteer work to see how much I can change, how big of an impact I can have on the lifes of those kids. Well so far unfotrunately I feel like in most of them it doesn't make much of a difference if I'm there or not. It's very interesing for me to get to know all the different projects...

So Carnaval was great=) Getting up at 7 in the morgning to go to the first bloco, which are like bands playing in the streets, some of them moving, others staying at only one spot. Some only with drums and stuff, others also with people singing or horns and things like that. some smaller, some bigger, one playing beatles, others playing carnaval songs... Each lasting for about 4 hours and around the whole city they have heaps of different ones playing at the sam...