Paz do Senhor! (Peace of the Lord) It's been just over two months now since I arrived here in Brazil. I'm beginning to feel really settled here with all the unfamiliarity's becoming much more 'familiar' now. I have established some great friends with whom I can be myself and an equally great support network that I can go to for help. Living in such a small, closed off town, and being the only non-Brazilian person for literally hundreds of miles has its own...

Olá! Somehow, and I'm not really quite sure how it's happened, but I've already been here a month! As expected the time has flown by but either way it has certainly been a good month. I can't possibly tell you all about the swimming trips, Children's Day, language study and the many random situations I have found myself in, in one newsletter so I'll give you some snippets and insights instead. In a typical week here I will in the evenings attend three diffe...

Two weeks in already and so much has happened! But what exactly? Well after a few initial days of acclimatising to the time difference and the intense heat that is Brazil I was eventually able to settle and find my feet and explore my new hometown for the next two years. This past week and a bit has primarily been set aside for me to focus on learning Portuguese. And while there were a few days when I wanted to bounce my head off the wall it is now slowly comin...

After many months of waiting, a long journey, two flights and an arduous drive I've finally it made to Cariré, here in hot and sunny Brazil!Whilst I normally think flights are nothing worth writing about, and trust me mine weren't, the initial stages of arriving at the airport and the checking in process indeed were. We arrived at the airport and because of the long walk mum had pre-ordered a wheelchair to get us from the car park to the terminal. We then found ...