After finally establishing the plan of action, Andrea and I set about heading to the Rodavario( central bus station) to embark a bus to Paraty, which as you may remember, can be quite a frightful experience! So, wisely we slept most of the 4 hour journey, blissfully unaware of the cliffs of oblivion being skimmed by the bus just millimeters away from us!!! We arrived in Paraty at about midnight, and set about finding a Pasada for the night- no problem, we tho...

Hey all!!!!!!!! Soz that this blog entry has been weeks in the making but I have been soooooooo busy, and the house has literally been MENTAL (I'll tell you all about that later!) so Im afraid that is why it has taken me so long to get here!!!!! SORRY!!! Good thing is though- I have loads and loads to tell you about!!! Im such a geek that I didnt wanna forget anything to tell you guys that I have even been writing notes to prompt myself!!!! Anyway, as I...

Hey all!! Ive not really done anything all that interesting today but I realse that I have been somewhat neglecting this blog, so I thought that whilst I had a minute on the computer I would updatee for yall!!! How is everyone?? Its bin a bit quiet!!! Hope, as always, that you are all well and good, and that you are missing me-as I am missing you all, too!! Anyway, as I said, not done much today, just been to Ciads, where the kids coverred me in chalk, ...

Hey Everybody!!!!!!!! How yall doin?? Hope that you are all ok!!!??? I bet you all thought that I had forgotten about this lovely portal didnt yall!?!? hehe. Well- i had never done such a thing- but, it has been virtually impossible to get on a computer as there are now 23 volunteers in the house, all eagerly waiting for the computer queue to decrease!!! SO, SORRY ABOUT THE WAIT!! Now that I am finally her I cant even remember about all the random things t...

Hello! As promised I have finally found a gap in this busy computers' schedule to update my likkle blog for you...finally!! Where did I leave you all?? I think I left off at about last Friday so I will tell you about that! After spending the (very long) day at CIADS, I arived home to be informed that there was a favela party being held at Julio Otoni, just down the road. (I felt that this may be a bit dubious, but the other volunteers assured me that it wa...