Wednesday, 13 February 2008

One month now...

Yesterday evening I passed one month of being here in Brazil. It feels much longer, one month is not enough, so many things have happened so it doesnt feel like it only was one month since I arrived here in the world´s 5:th largest country.
This sunday me and Diêgo went to Olinda for the second time. Yes, Olinda really is the most beautiful city I have been in. We were walking through a park with a big pound with alot of leaves in it. Alot of palms were surrounding us, I love palms.
Later when we really came in to the old city that symbolize Olinda,we came to a hotel were we ate dinner. We have been thinking about travel to another country, so after dinner we went to Uruguay´s embassy that was just some meters away. The embassy of Uruguay was closed since 30 minutes ago. We continued to walk through the streets of Olinda, to the top of the "mountain" that Olinda is placed on. There you can see the great view all away to Recife and the skyscrapes there. We went to some tourist shops, just for fun, later we took a walk to some churches. I learned a new thing that day, long time ago the north-eastern Brazil was a dutch collony, the churches with two towers is dutch while the ones with only one tower is portuguese. Diêgo didnt know this either before.
We visited a big church with golden walls inside, some monks were there and singing, they live in this church. Here in Brazil it is common that monks and nuns is living in special parts of the churches, it is a monastery at the same time it is a church.
Later at the evening we ate some ice cream and milkshake before taking the bus home.
At monday we decided to clean our room cause the past night we had an attack of several cockroaches, discusting! At tuesday we also washed our clothes.
Today we went to the embassy of Argentina close to our home and talked abit. Its quite cheap to fly to Buenos Aires from Recife, but of course there is alot of things you need to pay for while you are there for one month as we talked about. Later we went to Cordeiro, the part of Recife were Diêgo´s old school are and were the cheap cyber is. We were looking for information about Argentina and I was chatting with my mom at home. Later we were thinking this trip may be a bad idea so we decided to travel around a bit here in the north-eastern Brazil and see some states here. Later we visited Diêgo´s friend and old neighbour Êlyza were we stayed a bit. I must say her dog is very sweet! But he bites alot...
We went to the favela close to buy bread, of course I didnt take my wallet and mobile telephone with me. The part of the favela I saw looked a bit cosy, but its very dangerous.
Right now we are in Êlyza´s school using the computer, we pretend we study here, but I have fear a teacher ask me something in portuguese and I cant answer, I really hope it doesnt happen. This was all for today, bye and good evening!

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