Blogs from Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America - page 138

Ik stuur ff fotootjes uit Rio. Heb er nog nie zoveel gemaakt. Heb al mijn tentamens trouwens gehaald dus ben klaar op school. Was echt vreemd de laatste dag op school te zijn daar. Alleen next week even snel terug om papieren te laten tekenen. ... read more

Not much to report. Been living pretty quietly the past few weeks and this is my last week of teaching. Bingo has been going well................ Was invited to the theatre last Friday with the kids. They were really excited and were all washed and dressed in their best clothes ready to go. However, the bus didn´t turn up and we didn´t get there. They were all gutted. I felt really sorry for them especially Alan as it was his birthday. They were all really sweet though. As we were walking down for the bus they were fighting over who was going to hold my hand and then who was going to sit beside me at the bus-stop. I felt like the Pied Piper and probably would have had a visit from the social services back home! ... read more

rio, wohl eini vo de bekannteschte staedt uf de welt. und jetzt sind mir do. isch eifach de hammer. so vil gruen innere stadt mit fascht 7 millione iwohner. de hammer. aber jo. eis nochem andere. nochdem mir noch uesere abartig ueble busreis denn mol endlich in rio acho sind simmer zum hostel. copacabana tropical hostel. en empfehlig vo de cat und de daniela und wuerkli en guete tipp. de luis baldomar, en unikat und ganz en geile typ. nochem gruess usrichte simmer natuerlich gad uf sinere site gsi. chch. however. am nommi nochem acho sind de moghe und ich is maracana, copa brasileiro. wunderbar. sgroeschte stadion vo de welt so seitmer aber isches glaub nuemme. however. nochere chillige autofahrt zum stadion im hiphop (hippihoppi uf brasilianisch ;)) simmer denn is stadion. wurkli e maechtigs huere ... read more

For some reason I seem to have made an arse of my typing up my first week. The pictures are back to front and I typed a whole load more and I´ve no idea what happened to it. I can´t remember what I had typed either! Anyway, to continue................. I´m working in a favela called Prazeres. It´s only a 10 minute walk from the house so it´s pretty good. My first day of teaching was ok. I had two girls fighting and rolling around on the floor with handfulls of each other´s hair. We also had the police come calling which meant a bit of friendly fire with the locals. I´ve been told that nobody ever gets shot but we´ve to stay indoors when they come calling just in case! It´s probably not as bad as ... read more

We arrived in Rio 9am local time after a gruelling 13 hour flight from Heathrow via Sao Paulo. As soon as we´d dropped our bags at the hostel, we headed down town for our first taste of the world famous Copacabana beach. After a stroll down the 3km of golden sands, it was time to relax at a beach side cafe serving the ultimate refreshment, a near ripe coconut straight from the freezer, top hacked off with a machette and a straw to lap up the chilled milk inside. Heaven on a hot (31 degrees!) day. Although we were shattered from our long flight, the lure of football at the Maracana stadium was enough to keep us awake. Our hostel ran a trip to the largest football stadium in the world, where we watched local team ... read more