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 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...

So, more about the projects. Today I went to a project in Ilha do Governador, a bit out of Rio, but I could stay at the house of really great people from Rotary, so it was fine=) The project I went to is located at a hospital and is there for helping families who had a child with a cleft lip. The project accompanies the families during the healing process and the operations, depending on their financial situation it also helps out with donating money, in order...

I'll write another time=D Damned it was heaps!!!

Ok, So I'm writing this blog in English since i think that everyone who's interested in what I'm doing here understands English. If not, then it's definitely time to learn=) So the beginning here in Rio hasn't really been easy, maybe because I'd never really though about anything at all before coming here. I kind of just believed everything would organize itself once I'd turn up. Well it doesn't. So I arrived here, nearly three weeks ago with nothing but a place...