Friday 7th April- got up at 10 and decided to spend a day going round the parks and museums, including the Villa Lobos museum. I then walked, and walked, and walked for ages to get to the Botanical gardens. The place was amazing, so many photo opportunities!!Got a text from Leandro`s friend Kieran who lives in Rio' we met up for a drink and then headed to Lapa!All the people from our hostel went, and i also met up with Helen, Katy and Caroline- 3 girls who had do...

Friday 31st March- Spent my final day at the Aflove project today. The children are so much better behaved here, as the area is rougher and they behave more as they do not want to get kichedout and have to go home. Just as i was leaving my flat a women overheard me speaking English, and to cut a long story short.. she asked me if i would like to come and live in her house for free, and teach her daughter English- awesome!! I then took the bus to Curitiba- took 4 ...

Friday 25th March- today we had no school again as the teachers had a meeting, at capoeira we learnt a weird but kinda funny dance, and they were trying to help us sing along- a lost cause!!We then wetn to Campeche beach and had a drink wtih the capoeira guys- including the maestro!We went down to the beach, where other people were playing capoeira, i ran into the sea, then Faith and I ran along the beach for a bit. We then went to another bar and had some Chopp,...

Friday 18th March- today at work i started to make a chess board and prepare a music lesson in portuguese for next week!Had fab capoeira lesson- did flip and cartwheel practise. At the end of a lesson the maestro and caju asked us to go to another capoeira class at the University nearby. Noone else wanted to go, but i was not going to turn it down! Im so glad i went- it was amazing- everyone was so good; i had a go at jenga but was too mesmorised by watching ever...

Saturday 4th March- Today, Charlotte, Sun and I headed to Guada do Embau beach. It was a fanstatically sunny day and we were looking forward to getting down to some proper sunbathing!It was such a beautiful beach- to get to the beach we had to take a rowing boat- one of the ones that i sat in last week at about 3 in the morning!! Well.....we got there and then it absolutely chucked it down- typical! We waited for ages but decided that the sun was not going to com...