So it's been a good week, up to today. This morning I woke up, threw up three times and felt like shit the rest of the day. At first, I thought I had a stomach virus...but I honestly think it was the slice of coffee cake I ate last night. I bought it from a little Bakery down the street. I'm feeling a lot better today but I slept the majority of the day away. Well that's the only downfall I've experienced so far...so its pretty good that I just had a 24 hour bug type of thing!
Highlights of last week:
1. I saw my first Incan Ruins at Pachacamac (Right outside of Lima)
2. Saw a movie in Larco Mar.
3. Taught my kids how to sing "Miss Mary Mack"
4. Taught a woman how to write her name in Spanish literacy class
Today is my roommate Glady's 23rd birthday! We are all going into Lima to go to a club to celebrate! So excited! Tomorrow her Aunt is making us a big lunch and then we are going to spend the rest of the day in Lima! Yay for days off!
In Huaycan, us gringas constantly get whistled at and cat-called. It's starting to get on my nerves. Just yesterday I was wearing baggy jeans, my usual black beanie and fleece zip up (It was cold out) and I still got whistled at. What is wrong with the world. My self-confidence will be through the roof by the time I get back to the states...but wait, men are respectful there.
Don't have much time! Off to teach! Bye!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
No te veo
Hola todos!
Huaycan alto has been the same as always, teaching english on the daily, doing lots of tutoring etc.
Like I wrote to you last time about my student's dad cutting her hair off, it has happened to two more of our students. Apparently, hairdressers are offering 100-150 soles for nice long hair...which is just so sad. They leave the poor little girls looking like little boys with choppy, uneven haircuts. :/
This past Saturday the 6-9 year old groups went on a field trip to Huacapucllana in Lima to see Incan ruins. They absolutely loved it and even got to see the beach (which was a first for most of the kids).
For our volunteer excursion last week, we went to La Punta, a peninsula that is almost completely surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. This coastal city has incredible ceviche (traditional Peruvian raw fish dish). We laid out by the beach for a while and then went to Plaza San Miguel for some amazing Gelato...first time I ate ice cream the entire time I've been abroad believe it or not! After gelato, I met my friend Ale in Ovalo Miraflores (one of Lima's prime tourist spots. We ate dinner at a nice, organic, vegetarian restaurant. We went to a nice park in Miraflores and I went back to Huaycan the next day. It isn't safe to go back to Huaycan at night by yourself...I don't live in the greatest of areas haha.
This is a picture of the ceviche! :)
That's all for now, but I will try and write Friday after my days off!!
Huaycan alto has been the same as always, teaching english on the daily, doing lots of tutoring etc.
Like I wrote to you last time about my student's dad cutting her hair off, it has happened to two more of our students. Apparently, hairdressers are offering 100-150 soles for nice long hair...which is just so sad. They leave the poor little girls looking like little boys with choppy, uneven haircuts. :/
This past Saturday the 6-9 year old groups went on a field trip to Huacapucllana in Lima to see Incan ruins. They absolutely loved it and even got to see the beach (which was a first for most of the kids).
For our volunteer excursion last week, we went to La Punta, a peninsula that is almost completely surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. This coastal city has incredible ceviche (traditional Peruvian raw fish dish). We laid out by the beach for a while and then went to Plaza San Miguel for some amazing Gelato...first time I ate ice cream the entire time I've been abroad believe it or not! After gelato, I met my friend Ale in Ovalo Miraflores (one of Lima's prime tourist spots. We ate dinner at a nice, organic, vegetarian restaurant. We went to a nice park in Miraflores and I went back to Huaycan the next day. It isn't safe to go back to Huaycan at night by yourself...I don't live in the greatest of areas haha.
This is a picture of the ceviche! :)
That's all for now, but I will try and write Friday after my days off!!
Monday, June 13, 2011
Happy Anniversary LLI!
My apologies for not writing this for a week....it has been pretty busy over here in Huaycan! So many important things to say:
For starters, it was the 2nd anniversary of Light and Leadership Initiative on Sunday(the non-profit i volunteer for). We started set up at 6am (the party was on the canchita in Zona D (basketball court). The real festivities began at 1:30pm after going to the individual zones on a combi (small bus)that we rented. We had different activities that we did...art, face painting, "bowling", bozo buckets, jump rope, hula hoops, bracelet making, and more. It was really fun for the kids! They loved it! We then held the vocabulary bee. The kids were split up in age groups and the winners received a free trip to an interactive museum, kind of like Wannado city. They were all really excited! The day ended with dancing...so much fun! Check out the pictures of this day on facebook!
A few details about my kids: My student Lexi used to have really long gorgeous hair. The other day she came to class with all of her hair cut off. She was wearing a hat...has been wearing a hat since that day. I had spoken with her parents before, I met her Dad, he was drunk and slurring his words. I later found out that her Dad cut all of her hair off and sold it for money. Things like this happen all the time...last week my student Melanie came to class with her ear completely plastered in dried blood...she told me her mother tried to pierce her ear and that's what happened...but I think she was cut badly. Other than this, they are all really happy kids. Yes, they are poverty stricken, but I think they are happiest when they're learning or playing sports. We play jump rope and soccer a lot, those are their favorites.
I private tutor a few people:
Moises: I tutor Moises four times a week...at 8:45 a.m. But it's okay because he's awesome. He's 16...him and his family is moving to Argentina in August though...such a great kid-we sing Justin Beiber and Taylor Swift-it helps to print out lyrics for enlgish songs!
Merleini: She is 29, and is a single mother of twins. She is an english teacher. Yes, I tutor an english teacher. She is still very basic, but I am happy to help the best I can.
Juan:: Juan is 17, he speaks pretty well...he is really funny. I tutor him for 3 hours on Saturday afternoons. We usually go through a cool textbook he has and then take a walk and have normal conversation. We have to break it up or else it gets really long, but he's a funny kid.
I teach a class in Zone Z-The Alamos. It is in the highest point of the city, which means the poorest. The moto-taxis don't have enough power to go up that high so I take something called a combi, a small van, kind of like a VW van. It's public transportation. .90 centimos to go up and .50 centimos to go down. The thing about combi's is that theres 15 seats...but they literally squeeze 35-40 people on at all times. Just the other day I was sitting accross from a woman that had her kid on her lap while she was breast-feeding her baby. On the other side of me was an older woman with a huge assortment of vegetables on her lap. You see all sorts of people on this bus and it is anything but comfortable. If you're claustrophobic...you could never ride on this. Today I met a 15 year old girl who lived in Zona Z, I told her she should come to my english class, but she had to run her family's store so couldn't. :(
Today I taught a spanish literacy class. About 4 older women come to the class. They don't know how to read, let alone the spanish alphabet. But today I was working with one woman and I actually got her to read and pronounce full spanish words-very exciting! I really like the group of women, they are really nice and its great practice for me as well.
I went to Lima on my days off, which was really fun. Friday night we all went out to a place called Kenko's. It's a Regeatton discoteka. There were free drinks for an hour and we all took advantage of that. Needless to say, it was a fun night...and I got a pitcher of beer for 12 sols...like 4 dollars and made friends with lots of Peruvians. So I was happy. I'm not really here to party though, i'm here to volunteer so we cant really go out like we used to in Brazil. It's definitely a different experience, but so much more rewarding than anything I have done in my entire life.
Hope I gave you guys some insight into what my days are like! Love you all!
For starters, it was the 2nd anniversary of Light and Leadership Initiative on Sunday(the non-profit i volunteer for). We started set up at 6am (the party was on the canchita in Zona D (basketball court). The real festivities began at 1:30pm after going to the individual zones on a combi (small bus)that we rented. We had different activities that we did...art, face painting, "bowling", bozo buckets, jump rope, hula hoops, bracelet making, and more. It was really fun for the kids! They loved it! We then held the vocabulary bee. The kids were split up in age groups and the winners received a free trip to an interactive museum, kind of like Wannado city. They were all really excited! The day ended with dancing...so much fun! Check out the pictures of this day on facebook!
A few details about my kids: My student Lexi used to have really long gorgeous hair. The other day she came to class with all of her hair cut off. She was wearing a hat...has been wearing a hat since that day. I had spoken with her parents before, I met her Dad, he was drunk and slurring his words. I later found out that her Dad cut all of her hair off and sold it for money. Things like this happen all the time...last week my student Melanie came to class with her ear completely plastered in dried blood...she told me her mother tried to pierce her ear and that's what happened...but I think she was cut badly. Other than this, they are all really happy kids. Yes, they are poverty stricken, but I think they are happiest when they're learning or playing sports. We play jump rope and soccer a lot, those are their favorites.
I private tutor a few people:
Moises: I tutor Moises four times a week...at 8:45 a.m. But it's okay because he's awesome. He's 16...him and his family is moving to Argentina in August though...such a great kid-we sing Justin Beiber and Taylor Swift-it helps to print out lyrics for enlgish songs!
Merleini: She is 29, and is a single mother of twins. She is an english teacher. Yes, I tutor an english teacher. She is still very basic, but I am happy to help the best I can.
Juan:: Juan is 17, he speaks pretty well...he is really funny. I tutor him for 3 hours on Saturday afternoons. We usually go through a cool textbook he has and then take a walk and have normal conversation. We have to break it up or else it gets really long, but he's a funny kid.
I teach a class in Zone Z-The Alamos. It is in the highest point of the city, which means the poorest. The moto-taxis don't have enough power to go up that high so I take something called a combi, a small van, kind of like a VW van. It's public transportation. .90 centimos to go up and .50 centimos to go down. The thing about combi's is that theres 15 seats...but they literally squeeze 35-40 people on at all times. Just the other day I was sitting accross from a woman that had her kid on her lap while she was breast-feeding her baby. On the other side of me was an older woman with a huge assortment of vegetables on her lap. You see all sorts of people on this bus and it is anything but comfortable. If you're claustrophobic...you could never ride on this. Today I met a 15 year old girl who lived in Zona Z, I told her she should come to my english class, but she had to run her family's store so couldn't. :(
Today I taught a spanish literacy class. About 4 older women come to the class. They don't know how to read, let alone the spanish alphabet. But today I was working with one woman and I actually got her to read and pronounce full spanish words-very exciting! I really like the group of women, they are really nice and its great practice for me as well.
I went to Lima on my days off, which was really fun. Friday night we all went out to a place called Kenko's. It's a Regeatton discoteka. There were free drinks for an hour and we all took advantage of that. Needless to say, it was a fun night...and I got a pitcher of beer for 12 sols...like 4 dollars and made friends with lots of Peruvians. So I was happy. I'm not really here to party though, i'm here to volunteer so we cant really go out like we used to in Brazil. It's definitely a different experience, but so much more rewarding than anything I have done in my entire life.
Hope I gave you guys some insight into what my days are like! Love you all!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
One for one
Life in Huaycan, Peru has been great so far! I am venturing into Lima with the other volunteers tonight. They have a friend that is opening up a hostel and he is letting us stay there for free tonight!
Surprisingly, downtown Huaycan (consisting of one main road) actually has a decent nightlife. We went out last night and got some beers. It is so cheap to get anything in Huaycan so it makes going out really affordable.
Pirated movies are sold on the street for 2 sols each (approximately 70 cents)..so we bought The Social Network and a few Adam Sandler movies.
Another detail: The majority of people in Huaycan are under 5 feet tall here. They all have really tan skin and black hair. It’s a town of midgets. People look at me like I’m some giant…or monster.
For those of you who have not heard about TOM’S shoes, it is a shoe company with a socially responsible mission. For every pair of TOM’s shoes that is purchased, one pair of TOM’s shoes is donated to children in need. I have always thought this was a great program, but I had never seen the positive results in real life. Yesterday, my co-teacher Holli was wearing her pair of TOM’s shoes and 7 year old Mariana came up to her and showed her that they were wearing matching shoes! I thought it was so cool that you could actually see the benefits this little girl got-a pair of shoes for her own!
The people of Huaycan are very stricken with poverty. Just the other day, one of the girls didn’t show up to art class. When we asked the other children why she didn’t come, the response we got was that “she didn’t have any clothes to wear today”.
Yesterday I was helping out with “Collage class” and I was helping one of the little girls with her collage. She was smiling and I realized that all of her baby teeth were rotting away. She had gaping holes in the back of her mouth and I wanted to cry. They are all such happy kids. The kids are always smiling and grateful of the lessons that they get from LLI.
That’s about all for now, but I will try and keep writing as much as possible!
Surprisingly, downtown Huaycan (consisting of one main road) actually has a decent nightlife. We went out last night and got some beers. It is so cheap to get anything in Huaycan so it makes going out really affordable.
Pirated movies are sold on the street for 2 sols each (approximately 70 cents)..so we bought The Social Network and a few Adam Sandler movies.
Another detail: The majority of people in Huaycan are under 5 feet tall here. They all have really tan skin and black hair. It’s a town of midgets. People look at me like I’m some giant…or monster.
For those of you who have not heard about TOM’S shoes, it is a shoe company with a socially responsible mission. For every pair of TOM’s shoes that is purchased, one pair of TOM’s shoes is donated to children in need. I have always thought this was a great program, but I had never seen the positive results in real life. Yesterday, my co-teacher Holli was wearing her pair of TOM’s shoes and 7 year old Mariana came up to her and showed her that they were wearing matching shoes! I thought it was so cool that you could actually see the benefits this little girl got-a pair of shoes for her own!
The people of Huaycan are very stricken with poverty. Just the other day, one of the girls didn’t show up to art class. When we asked the other children why she didn’t come, the response we got was that “she didn’t have any clothes to wear today”.
Yesterday I was helping out with “Collage class” and I was helping one of the little girls with her collage. She was smiling and I realized that all of her baby teeth were rotting away. She had gaping holes in the back of her mouth and I wanted to cry. They are all such happy kids. The kids are always smiling and grateful of the lessons that they get from LLI.
That’s about all for now, but I will try and keep writing as much as possible!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Peruvian News for you:
Hola todos! I'm here reporting to you from Huaycan, Peru-just 40 minutes outside of Lima. Its pretty dusty over here-a.k.a. i am covered in dirt on the daily. Huaycan is a really poor shanty-town that is surrounded by incan ruins. Theres one main road called "quince" where theres millions of street vendors that sell anything from pirated DVDS for 1 sol each: equivalent to about 30 US cents to soft-serve ice cream, to pig intestines or chicken feet. Its very inexpensive to live here to say the least.
For those of you who don't know what I'm doing here in this little city, I'm volunteering for an organization called LLI which stands for Light and Leadership Initiative. It's a non-profit organization that primarily services the children and women of Huaycan, Peru-they are the underserved part of the peruvian population and suffer because of it. However we also have adult education classes that include men. We hold classes in english, french, mathematics, art, chess, physical education, english conversation, computers, literacy, and private tutoring for free to those in Huaycan. The program is relatively new, we have the two year anniversary in about a week. The kids really love coming and learning-and they are super cute-I will post pictures as soon as I can! Saturday I taught an adolescent english class-there were two 15 year old boys and two girls around my age. Yesterday I taught an english class to 6-9 year olds (we also played soccer outside for an hour) and it was a lot of fun! Later on in the day I taught math to 6-9 year olds as well...just addition and subtraction, i'm no math whiz over here! Last night, we held an adult conversation class that was pretty fun...met a lot of peruvian people around my age, so thats always fun!
I am living in volunteer housing in Huaycan. There are 8 people living in LLI house. Theres the house manager- Sarah, me, my roommates Gladys and Holli, Chris, Mimosa, Ellie, and Lauren. A lot of us are americans but Ellie is from England and Mimosa is Finnish. It's pretty awesome and everyone is really nice and chill!
At first, I had a few difficulties switching so quickly from speaking portuguese everyday to speaking spanish everyday, but I think I have got the hang of it now! A few details about life in Peru: you can't flush your toilet paper down the toilet, so we have to throw it away in the trash can...dont worry, the trash gets taken out daily. You can't drink the tap water-yay for bottles! I live in a dusty desert-like area...so i have dirt on me 24/7.
Food i've tried so far:
Tacu Tacu: A rice and egg mixture thats rolled in a log shape then fried-really good!
Inca Kola: soft drink that tastes like bubble gum
Alfahores: Cookie sandwich that has molasses/caramel in the middle, dusted in powdered sugar-delicious!
Theres so much more to write about, but I am definitely enjoying what I'm doing here, so many adorable little smiling kids!
Hasta luego!
For those of you who don't know what I'm doing here in this little city, I'm volunteering for an organization called LLI which stands for Light and Leadership Initiative. It's a non-profit organization that primarily services the children and women of Huaycan, Peru-they are the underserved part of the peruvian population and suffer because of it. However we also have adult education classes that include men. We hold classes in english, french, mathematics, art, chess, physical education, english conversation, computers, literacy, and private tutoring for free to those in Huaycan. The program is relatively new, we have the two year anniversary in about a week. The kids really love coming and learning-and they are super cute-I will post pictures as soon as I can! Saturday I taught an adolescent english class-there were two 15 year old boys and two girls around my age. Yesterday I taught an english class to 6-9 year olds (we also played soccer outside for an hour) and it was a lot of fun! Later on in the day I taught math to 6-9 year olds as well...just addition and subtraction, i'm no math whiz over here! Last night, we held an adult conversation class that was pretty fun...met a lot of peruvian people around my age, so thats always fun!
I am living in volunteer housing in Huaycan. There are 8 people living in LLI house. Theres the house manager- Sarah, me, my roommates Gladys and Holli, Chris, Mimosa, Ellie, and Lauren. A lot of us are americans but Ellie is from England and Mimosa is Finnish. It's pretty awesome and everyone is really nice and chill!
At first, I had a few difficulties switching so quickly from speaking portuguese everyday to speaking spanish everyday, but I think I have got the hang of it now! A few details about life in Peru: you can't flush your toilet paper down the toilet, so we have to throw it away in the trash can...dont worry, the trash gets taken out daily. You can't drink the tap water-yay for bottles! I live in a dusty desert-like area...so i have dirt on me 24/7.
Food i've tried so far:
Tacu Tacu: A rice and egg mixture thats rolled in a log shape then fried-really good!
Inca Kola: soft drink that tastes like bubble gum
Alfahores: Cookie sandwich that has molasses/caramel in the middle, dusted in powdered sugar-delicious!
Theres so much more to write about, but I am definitely enjoying what I'm doing here, so many adorable little smiling kids!
Hasta luego!
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Tchau Brazil, Hola Peru!
Its really sad to say goodbye to such a good experience. I had so much fun and met so many great people.
Wednesday we went to Corcorvado, the huge Jesus Christ statue that can be seen from all over Rio, on the top of the mountain. It was so cloudy unfortunately and we couldnt even get a good picture! After that though, we went to a great lookout point where you can get a panorama of the city. We then ate lunch in Santa Teresa, a really historical part of Rio. It was really interesting because if you looked up you would see a favela, and if you looked to your left, you would see a castle from a noble family in Brazil. Social class segmentation in Brazil is crazy. We also went to a staircase that was completely mosaic(ed) by a brazilian artist. I posted a picture of it, I thought it was absolutely beautiful!
Thursday night was pretty crazy...we went out to a bar in Leblon and met my favorite professora-Jama there. We also met Ana, for the meninos (Blake and Davis) it was their last night in Rio! We drank a lot at this bar...we all had a lot of fun. Me, Blake, Paola, Jessica, and Juan ended up going to Ghavia afterwards and wondering around in the streets because there was a street party.
Friday we woke up early and had a farewell brunch at IBEU, received our final grades, and got our certificates of completion! After this, we all went to the beach and hung out for a little. Soon after, I took the onibus all by myself and met Priscila for lunch. I went home, packed my bag, ate an acai...which is an amazing smoothie type drink they have in Brazil, and ate dinner with my family. I'm going to miss them so much!
I went out to Lapa with Priscila and her cousin friday night. It was really fun, Lapa is unlike anything I have ever experienced. People drink in the street, its actually amazing. I didn't go to sleep. I got back to the apartment at 3:30am and immediately left for the airport to catch my 6am flight. Luckily though, I slept all 5.5 hours on the airplane to Peru, so i'm all rested! I must admit though, I did shed a tear or two when I was saying goodbye to my host family. I loved them!
I really like it here in Peru! I will write a blog post as soon as possible!
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Nossa!!!!!!!!
Thursday night, Nini made pasta with Sardines. You all know how i feel about sardines. How many traumatizing sardine experiences must I live through? Dear god...its me Jessie, HELPPP.
Friday we all went to Copacabana and hung out at my friend from the planes apartment (Sandra). We had originally planned to go out after drinking a few beers there but time flew by and it was already really late by the time we were ready to go out!
Saturday morning I woke up at 10:45...so nice to finally sleep in! I took a walk along the beach because everyone in my house was still sleeping. Unfortunately it started raining while I was on my walk so I had to cut it short! I decided to see Hangover 2 in theatres since it was raining. In portuguese, the movie is called "Se beber nao case"...this means- if you drink you dont get married...whats up with that? I met up with Civel, Jessica, and her friend Gabe. Hangover 2 was luckily in english with portuguese subtitles. Needless to say I learned lots of curse words in portuguese during this movie! Later that night I met up with Priscila in Lapa (best nightlife in Rio) and we had pizza and went to a bar/discoteka. The bar was pretty cool, it was a really good mix of people...gay straight etc. I learned how to dance samba this night, so that was really exciting! We stayed at the club until really late!
Sunday Paola came over and met my host-family. Avo (grandpa) picked us up in his car and took us to the yacht club (he has a sail boat). Me, Paola, avo, his girlfriend, and Andrea (minha prima) went for the trip. Unfortunately, the waves were huge (ressaca) and we could not go out on the sail boat. Instead, avo took us on a passeo (sight-seeing). We went to fortaleza de santa cruz de barra; a military naval fort. So cool! After that, we went to lunch at this fish place: I had yet another confrontation with the little fish because as all of you loyal blog followers know, I DO NOT LIKE SARDINES AT ALL, I DO NOT LIKE THEM JESSIE I AM. Anyhow, I ate one and practically made myself puke...well not actually.
After lunch, we went to Niteroi..a really cool helicopter landing lookout point! Theres lots of pictures on facebook! When we came home, me, Paola, and Andrea went to the hippie fair for a little!
Later that night I met up with Priscila and went to a really cool bar called ZeroZero. Theres an indoor and outdoor part. The outdoor part has a sushi bar, drinks bar, lounging areas etc. The inside is a dance floor and another bar. It was pretty cool for a sunday night!
Monday I skipped class...we decided to celebrate memorial day and we all hit up the beach for most of the day! Always a good time.
Tuesday was Blakes 21st birthday so we all went out to Lord Jims Pub to celebrate. We also had a business visit today to Comlurb (the trash service for Rio)...it wasnt very interesting but they definitely do a lot to try and be eco-friendly! Downtown Rio is sweeped 6 times a day...how crazy is that?
Today (Wednesday) we all took our final portuguese exam...we all passed so thats good news! Today we are going to see Corcorvado, the christ statue on a jeep tour, so thats going to be awesome-afterwards Santa Teresa! Im excited to get so many jesus christo pictures, should be a blasty-blast.
Tchau meninos!
Friday we all went to Copacabana and hung out at my friend from the planes apartment (Sandra). We had originally planned to go out after drinking a few beers there but time flew by and it was already really late by the time we were ready to go out!
Saturday morning I woke up at 10:45...so nice to finally sleep in! I took a walk along the beach because everyone in my house was still sleeping. Unfortunately it started raining while I was on my walk so I had to cut it short! I decided to see Hangover 2 in theatres since it was raining. In portuguese, the movie is called "Se beber nao case"...this means- if you drink you dont get married...whats up with that? I met up with Civel, Jessica, and her friend Gabe. Hangover 2 was luckily in english with portuguese subtitles. Needless to say I learned lots of curse words in portuguese during this movie! Later that night I met up with Priscila in Lapa (best nightlife in Rio) and we had pizza and went to a bar/discoteka. The bar was pretty cool, it was a really good mix of people...gay straight etc. I learned how to dance samba this night, so that was really exciting! We stayed at the club until really late!
Sunday Paola came over and met my host-family. Avo (grandpa) picked us up in his car and took us to the yacht club (he has a sail boat). Me, Paola, avo, his girlfriend, and Andrea (minha prima) went for the trip. Unfortunately, the waves were huge (ressaca) and we could not go out on the sail boat. Instead, avo took us on a passeo (sight-seeing). We went to fortaleza de santa cruz de barra; a military naval fort. So cool! After that, we went to lunch at this fish place: I had yet another confrontation with the little fish because as all of you loyal blog followers know, I DO NOT LIKE SARDINES AT ALL, I DO NOT LIKE THEM JESSIE I AM. Anyhow, I ate one and practically made myself puke...well not actually.
After lunch, we went to Niteroi..a really cool helicopter landing lookout point! Theres lots of pictures on facebook! When we came home, me, Paola, and Andrea went to the hippie fair for a little!
Later that night I met up with Priscila and went to a really cool bar called ZeroZero. Theres an indoor and outdoor part. The outdoor part has a sushi bar, drinks bar, lounging areas etc. The inside is a dance floor and another bar. It was pretty cool for a sunday night!
Monday I skipped class...we decided to celebrate memorial day and we all hit up the beach for most of the day! Always a good time.
Tuesday was Blakes 21st birthday so we all went out to Lord Jims Pub to celebrate. We also had a business visit today to Comlurb (the trash service for Rio)...it wasnt very interesting but they definitely do a lot to try and be eco-friendly! Downtown Rio is sweeped 6 times a day...how crazy is that?
Today (Wednesday) we all took our final portuguese exam...we all passed so thats good news! Today we are going to see Corcorvado, the christ statue on a jeep tour, so thats going to be awesome-afterwards Santa Teresa! Im excited to get so many jesus christo pictures, should be a blasty-blast.
Tchau meninos!
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