heya

The roda was fun today, and it went on for like four hours! I was really not myself, but at least I am better than last night. I just don´t get how you can get a cold in a country like this. Then again there are a lot of people I´ve talked to that have been feeling a bit under the weather lately.

So yeah, I got kicked out today. Now I am at Hostel Che Lagarto in Barra. It is really nice and like only 20 meters to the ocean. Lucky me huh?

I´m trying to figure out how to get away from Brazil. I will probably leave in 8-9 days, from what I understand Bolivia is a country where there is a lot to see all over, so I will spend like 3 weeks there, including the 15 days in the djungle.

I want to go with bus, but I just can´t figure out any of these web sites, so I guess I have to drag my sick ass to the Rodoviaria and ask the people there.

Tonight is going to be easy. I think I´m gonna practice some Berimbau, and later, at 10.30 p.m. a guy from the capoeira group, insisted to meet up with me. He want to give me "a spiritual medicine". Well, I don´t know about that... but at least I can practice some portuguese, right?

what a turn

So this is what is up right now.

I am sick, again. Like a cold or something, so I will take it easy for two days. I think all the training I´ve been doing may have caused this, but I wont slow sown next week only because of that.

I´m getting kicked out of the apartment today. They told me with less than 36 hours notice that I had to move. Well, you have to stay open all the time while traveling, that´s for sure. So now I´m gonna move to Barra, very very close to the beach. A bit further away from the Capoeira and the dance though.

Now, me and Rahel are going to our first roda here in Brazil. Excited, but I really don´t feel that well so there will be no playing for me.

one day here.

Today a girl from Sweden came to live in the same apartment as I do. It is so wierd to talk in swedish, but I´m sure we´re gonna have a great time until I leave.

Other than that I have been to the beach, got burned in the shadow and got a proposal from a man on my street.

There´s also another man that is stalking me, kind of awkward. Now he even knows where I live, so he waites for me when I get home at night. Next time I see him I will tell him that I have um namarado waiting for me at home.

I´m just about to go to the dance class, then a quick visit at home before 3 hours of capoeria.


Just an ordinary day here in Salvador.

Adventure ahead!

I don´t know if I should tell you these things before I have ade them. I know I have a nervous mom, you know.

But I just can´t shut up.

When I leave Brazil I told you I´m going to Bolivia for some volunteering. But I never told you what I will do before that.

There´s a road called El Camino de Muerte that is about 62 km long. For you who don´t speak spanish it is called The Road of Death or Death Road, which you do by bike. So yeah, that is one of the things I´m gonna do before entering the djungle. Tell me, how amazing isn´t that? Now I probably can´t speak to my mom until after that, but still... I am just so excited!


Now I´m gonna go to the market and buy me uma copa the berimbau. My little finger is soar from yesterdays instrumental practice. Oh, and I´m gonna buy myself better shoes too!

Have a lovely day!

Eou falo

Today I actually had a conversation in portuguese... for like an hour. My ego was great when I walked back from the beach. I´ve been avoiding guys here, just for the fact that they are mostly just telling me how beautiful I am. That may sound wierd, but if you would have been here you would have understand why I don´t talk to them.

Anyway, this guy, whos name I can´t remember, wanted to "take me out" tonight after capoeira practice. One drink I said, and I will meet him at Pelourinho at 11 p.m. It just feels so great with my portuguese at this moment, that I feel that I have to take advantage of the situation.

Still I fear for todays capoeira practice. I just know I have to talk, that´s why it´s so damn hard. I still have two hours until then, so I will go back to my room and study some more.

That is what I do here.
Study, practice capoeira, take dance classes, shop food on the street, buy some other things if I feel like it and go to the beach. It´s a kind of lazy life right now, but I am enjoying myself quite a lot.

Esto pronta

Now I feel that I can tell you what I´ve been planning.

In about two weeks I will leave lovely Brazil to go to Bolivia. There I will work as a volunteer in the djungle for 15 days. How awesome isn´t that? When I heard about this Inti Wara Yassi project, I made up my mind and now I know that this is my next goal.

You know... I love being here. I love the capoeira, the dancing, the culture.. everything. But I still feel that I am ready to leave this place. I am sure I will go back soon though. But without the language it is really hard being here. And yesterday the mestre kind of made me talk in portuguese. With that pressure I just wanted to cry, run away and never go back. But I will, tonight at 7 p.m. So until my next visit to Brazil I will prepare myself even more then I did this time. It is frustrating, yet amazing at the same time. Because everyday I learn so much.

Right now I just have this craving to see more. That´s why I want to leave. You know, when you meet people on your trip, you hear so many great stories, and you want to do them all too! But you can´t, I guess, so you have to choose some of them and let the rest wait until you might have the time to do them.


Now it is time for me to have lunch and walk to the beach.

Happy girl

So I booked my flight as I said I would. I will come to LA on March 13th and go back home to Stockholm from New York on May 28th, if that´s what faith wants me to do.

I just realized I have the biggest rash on my arm. I really do wonder what I will look like soon. This is not beautiful. But I guess that´s what you get when you choose this. And it is totally worth it. Because right now, life is beautiful. The feeling of having all the control in the world, only me hold the wheel, doing what I want, when I want. It´s just great.

Sure, it has its negative point of view to, because I hold all the responsability in my hands and there´s always things to figure out along the way. And you can´t really delay them, otherwise you´ll get stuck. But things tend to float pretty well for me anyways.

It is fun being out here alone too. I will not be the same person when I come back, that is for sure. The things you see just can´t leave you unmarked. And for only 25 days of traveling I have seen so many things I can assure you. And what I plan to do... I just now I´m not going to be the same Emily as when I left. Or, I will still be me, but so much more.

I don´t miss home one bit. I even don´t really miss my love ones I have to say. But then I´m not really a person who misses things, I live in the present. The only thing I can feel that I miss about Sweden is the feeling of security. It is tireing to go around being aware all day long.

But I do think of you a lot. And when I see something amazing, which is a lot, I always wish that you would have been there beside me, experience the same thing as I do. I am a happy girl I hope you are happy too.

Butterfly moment

I am just about to do something spontanious again. Or, well.. not really, but it has to be done one day or another...

I am gonna book my flight from London to Los Angeles, then from New York to Stockholm. It was so cheap that I feel that I kind of have to. And if I would change my mind I could just throw my tickets away, as I did with my flight back home from Rio de Janeiro.

I just love these butterfly moments in life.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

I am back. So about the island. Wow! Just wow. Pure paradise actually. I didn´t even bother about my 427 new mosquito bites while I was there.. There is so many impressions and so many cool people I have met only spending two night there, I can´t even tell you enough about it.

But what I brought with me from there was like 2 kilos of mud. Yeah, mud. Pick and yellow mud. I´m gonna rub it in my face every now and then. From what I´ve heard it´s very good. Haha.

And what more did the island give me... Oh, I decided that I won´t spend my time here during the Carnaval after all. So in 2,5 weeks I will head towards Bolivia and for some serious adventures I can tell you. I am so excited a girl can be about life right now, I´m about to burst.

So today I said goodbye to the guys for the last time. I am quite sure I will go to Israel sometime in close future. Two weeks and I feel that I have found a serious friendship. It is the sad part being a backpacker. You meet these amazing people for a while, and then you will probably never see each other again. But I think you should be happy about the fact that you got to spend some time in your life together than not spending any at all.

@ Morro de São Paulo

This island is just amazing! That is all I have to say right now. Oh, and the owner of the hostel I´m staying in is also amazing. His name is Lior and he´s from Israel. The island is full of them, everywhere! No kidding...

I will tell you all about it when I am back in Salvador, full of impressions.

I´m just a spoiled little girl travelling the world

About those guys I´ve been hanging out with...

I have been so spoiled when it comes to food. Just saying Meu Deus! I haven´t been near the kitchen for at least 1,5 week. And they are amazing cooks too! Seriously...

Come to think about it. I haven´t cooked anything since I got here. Man, I am so spoiled, but I can´t really complain, can I? I´m still buying the food...

I´m not bad in the kitchen, but just to cook for yourself... it´s boring as hell. But then I think it is a bit funnier here that at home. I don´t know why, it´s just a fact. And it is so much cheaper too! So yesterday I made my first meal. Rice with onion and carrot with a been/tomato sause and bananas. Yummie! I made a lot, so I have dinner for tonight too! haha


Anyways, I have decided to hook up with the guys one more time. Tomorrow after breakfast I will go to Morro de São Paulo. From what I have heard it is an amazingly beautiful place, so I kind of feel that I have to be there.

Three weeks of travelling

Today I am on my own. The guys left at noon yesterday. I was a bit upset for a short while, since apparently I´ve lost a friend for something I think is so stupid. Maybe I should just start lying to please everybody. Wouldn´t the world be wonderful? I think I just said something stupid again, but this is just me being honest, as always...

Anyways, after buying my groceries and going to the dance class I felt that I was back in the game. I will absolutley deal with my problems when I get back home, but right now it is kind of hard and if I was to do that, I wouldn´t enjoy myself for one bit.

What about today...

It is raining. Just a small summer rain you don´t really need an umbrella for, but still. I wont go to the beach because of this. So I think I will continuing my portuguese practice, since I really need it.

Yesterday I bought my capoeira pants so later, tonight, I will go to my first capoeira session. I am so excited and nervous about this that I´m about to explode. I don´t know why, I think I put too much pressure on me about this. This is about having fun. But still...

I think I will like it here

So Salvador is a great city. My stomage on the other hand is not a great thing right now. But I´m hanging in there!

Today we went to Barra, to the beach, for a couple of hours. Then I went to this dance class with a woman who is staying here. Imagin dancing Afro to live music. Just amazing! I am so going back there tomorrow. And also I thing it is time for some capoeira.

My friends are leaving me tomorrow, so I will be alone for at least one week. But I think I will do fine. But some streets here are a bit frightening I must say.

It is thuesday night, wich apparently meen party night in Salvador. So we are just about to go to Pelourinho for some street partying. I am a bit tired, but hey, this is life!

This blog is not about being pissed off with my friends. And well... I´m seriously not at all. I just think it´s useless to go around with bad thoughts. But it still bugs me how I can be so missunderstood.


With this said I will tell you some of my plans.

To start with, Omri and I are gonna find a hostel where another friend of us are staying.

Then I still need to have a chat with the woman that rent out her room, because I have no idea if it will be a profit for me staying there right now or not...

Otherwise we are thinking about going to this Island called Morro de São Paulo. I think it will be nice to go there before I will settle down and focus on the capoeira. And so many perople are telling me that I have to go there. So I kind of feel that I have to, and I want to!

It is time for me to go out exploring Salvador. I am STOKED and a bit scared! But it´s a good thing to be.

Give me a break

There is one thing you guys need to know. As long as I say what I think, I won´t be sad for it. And what I think now, doesn´t meen that I will think the same tomorrow.

You guys who look at me in a less good way because I have told you how I feel, well... It is up to you. I don´t see why you make such a big thing out of one´s thought? Now I don´t even know who you are thinking of me like this, just one of you.

And seriously, who are you to say you don´t think bad things about everyone sometime?! Bullshit all over, I can tell all of you times when you weren´t happy with your so called ´best friends´. Give me a fucking break for once and stop being such a drama queen.

Call me whatever, that I am selfish or an asshole. Honestly you´re not hurting anyone but yourself with your negative thoughts...

Salvador

The 27 hours bus ride wasn´t so bad actually. I have to say, Brazil is a very beautiful country!

Coming to Salvador... I don´t know what to say. I feel lost somehow. I don´t have a clue about anything here. I know where the Capoeira club is, but that´s about it.

The internet on this place is really bad, so we have to find another place now. Until then. Bye!

Nightlife

I have to get up in one hour and get ready for my long trip to Salvador. I am excited as hell for that place. Now when I have experienced Rio's nightlife I can say that I am satisfied. I had so much fun tonight and I met some great friends too! My host on the other hand got drunk and dissappeared. So we had to go and look for him for almost one hour. I was kind of pissed off in other words. Then he just gave me the keys and said that he would come home later. I said it was okay, and it is. It is kind of nice to have some peace and quiet too.

The men at the club were calling me Madonna. I thought it was kind of fun. But I lost the counting of men who suddenly out of nowhere tried to kiss me. I was almost getting violent in the end. They are even worse in Salvador my one girl said. Yippi!

Oh, now he came home with 3 other people. Yah yah...

One more time

I am back in Rio. Ilha Grande in all honor with some serious rain, stomage ache, oh and I kind of got used to the mosquito bites. It was a really beautiful place in the world, but I kind of am glad I am back for one more night in Rio, and I´m staying with my old host Filippe. Tonight there will be some serious clubing in Lapa!


But just to straight things out.

I am not unhappy with that my friend is coming to Salvador. Or might come, I don´t really know now... The thing is that it is so hard to plan things without being able to talk about it. And as I said, my stay at Ilha Grande has been great, but really hard. It really gets to you when you´re a bit sick, have mosquito bites all over the body, a bad stomage, wet clothes, dirty underwear, no air condition, a bad internet connection and a lot of clues to figure out. So before saying anything, just try to imagin that and get things right, then come and tell me how bright you see things. It is okay to complain sometimes, but I am sorry it came out in a harsh way. I am not an egoistic person just because I think it would be so much easier without the pressure of taking care of another person.

Night

Tomorrow I will leave Ilha Grande. It sure has been pleasant, even though it has been raining almost the whole day. But is has been nice too! I just hope it will stop until tomorrow noon when the boat leaves. You dont really know what the boat will look like, from what I saw today when we said good bye to Jeronimo, the guy from Equador, it will be hell. But as I said, you will never know until the time is there.

Time to go and relax before I go to bed. I am kind of tired and from now on there will be a lot less relaxing I think..

Day 16

The internet on this island sucks! Right now I am kind of lucky, so I am trying to find the cheapest way to get to Salvador on Sunday. By a 25 hours bustrip I am sure...

Otherwise I have been kind of cranky all day and I now kind of feel that I dont want to be in Salvador for that long anymore. I dont know why, I just feel like get going all the time. But now I kind of am stuck, since my friends is coming. I am sure we will have a great time, but still I have this unpleasant feeling.

I also think I will end up living in a hostel instead of that room I am suppose to rent. I have no idea about the prices, since they wont tell me, like I said, I dont know if I want to get going sooner then I thought. And if I stay in one particular hostel I will get 20% off. So will just have to compare the prices and make up my mind when I get there.

It is hard when you just dont know anything. But even though my mind is about to blow and my legs are the nastiest thing I have ever seen, I am a happy girl. I wouldnt trade this for anythingin the world.

Ilha Grande

This island is amazingly beautiful. Yesterday we went for a two hours hike to another beach called Lopes Mendes and on our way back on the taxi boat it started to rain, like a lot! I just smiled, there wasn´t anything else to do you know.

What I don´t smile about is all my mosquito bites. I tried to count them, but after counting over 50 on just my right leg I kind of lost is. And I am losing it for sure, I feel so fucking ugly, like a sausage. But it is the iching part that is driving me crazy. A girl from the hostel is going to get me some chicken pot medicin. I will try whatever and if not, I am going to get drunk tonight!

Estou satisfeita, obrigada Rio!

So I think I am about to do something spontanious here... I might leave Rio earlier to go to Ihla Grande with my new friends. That will meen that this is my last night here. I don´t really mind, I have seen so much more than I ever thought was possible in less than two weeks, so I am as satified as a girl could be.

Today I read my book I got from my cousin. Dr. Seus´Oh, all the places you´ll go. I adore that book and it kind of gives you faith. Thanks again BeBiZ, miss you!

About this leaving Rio part, I have already acceped it, so I need to go to the hostel and pack my bags, cancel my staying, call my Carioca friends and just go out for a hell of a night.

Man, Rio I love you. I think I´ll see you in a short while!

Day 13

Yesterday we went up to Corcovado. Me, Israel, Equador and England. Went we got to the train station we had to wait for hours to be able to go up there with the train. The train doesnt go up there that often. Probably for the best, you know, because of the crowd.. But it was nice. Really nice. And my dad called me, so a happy girl just got happier in a second.

Since I have something like an aircondition-fever I am gonna take a chill pill today as well. Maybe go to the beach for a while, but later I am going to sit here and do some research on Salvador. I only have a place to stay in for two weeks, so yeah. If I was to be alone I would easily find a place or a CSer, but now my friend is coming, so it gets a bit harder.

Now I actually want to travel a bit more here in Brazil, but maybe I will chance my mind once I get to the Capoeira practice. We will see about that... Now I am going to see if Israel is awake.

A small update

I am having a blast. Oh yes. The people I hang out with are just amazing. We laugh and play around all the time. One guy is from Ecuador and one is from Isreal. Both of them have names I will never try to speak out loud, but whatever. It really feels that I know this pepole. And on wednesday they will leave. But the guy from Israel will come to Salvador and visit me in like two weeks, so that will be nice!

We´ve been having three awesome days, really getting the spirit of this town get to us. On friday we went to Lapa, where we drank cheap beer and danced samba on the street. Saturday we went to Santa Thereza where we danced in a baile funk party, amazing. After that we went to a market somewhere I don´t remember at the moment. It was really huge, and we danced and shopped there as well. Yesterday we walked like the whole day. First we walked across Copacabana beach over to Ipanema beach, past Arpoador and then to a Sunday Hippie Market. That was really nice and I got gifts to two lucky people at home. After that we went to the beach and later we walked all the way home again. There were so many things going on on Copacabana yesterday, music and dancing and acrobatic stuff. Just amazing. But I was a bit cranky because I didn´t have any lunch. This heat really takes your apitite way.

So today we´re going to Corcovado, finally. The guys are still asleep. On this hostel it tends to get late every night, about four in the morning. And then yesterday we just stayed home at the hostel cooking and having a nice time. But I will soon go and wake them up. You know, it is almost too hot going up to Corcovado in the middle of the day.

What more. Yeah, I kind of am sick. Nothing horrible, but my throat are really thick. I think it´s from the aircondition, but it´s really bugging me. Yesterday when I went to bed I took one of my magic pills. That was something I was to regret a few minutes later. Something happend and I actually thought I would suffocate. But I didn´t and I think those pills will be staying in my bag for quite some time.

Now it is time for breakfast!

Day eleven

Hi, update will probably come tonight... right now some other guys from the hostel and I are going to a hippie market in Ipanema. Everything is still great here. No it is even better...

Gotta go.

Stone of a Beach

Hey guys.

From now on I will stay at the hostel Stone of a Beach by Copacabana beach. I must say that I like this place a lot. I managed to forget where I put the locker that even wasn´t mine, twice. Nice start. But the austrailian guy was nice, so yeah... and the locker came back in time.

I actually went to the gym today. With Gabi. So now I can also say that I have made a pilates class in portuguese too. I started to miss my gym at home, so I will go out early every morning and run on the beach before breakfast. Or that is what I wish to do.

Tonight I have also played Capoeira and danced some samba at the hostel. I kinda freaked out when it was my turn. They played regional and yeah... i freaked. But I don´t think no one saw it. It was fun though!

So tonight I am going out woth two guys from Israel and one from Argentina. The Israelian guys are kind of cute as well...

What more? Oh I was almost on my way to Corcovado, but when I was at the train station that would take us there I kind of backed out. I want to do this hiking, and my company from the hostel (a girl from Argentina and a guy from Colombia) were too lazy for that. So I will call my CSer friend Igor and make him hike with me!

So yeah. Tonight is the night I will go out for the first time, I am kind of excited I must say. And tomorrow I will go to a party in Barra with Gabi and some others. Hell to the Yeah!

Tudo Bem

I just taked to my dad´s friend. Tomorrow I will go to Barra for a lunch with him and his family. Good for me, because I want to see more of that part of the city, and it´s across the mountains too.

Right now Filippe are helping me with my portuguese. He is writing down things and questions that is good to know. I think that is so sweet! I really need to practice now, because yesterday my friend booked and payed her flight to Salvador. I have an idea of how much portuguese I will be talking while I´m with her... like none!

Otherwise... my bag is packed and I will soon be heading towards my hostel at Copacabana. I have a feeling this will be a crazy ass week.

Oh Meu Deus!

Who thinks it´s wierd to have a brownie-pizza? I do, but now I have tasted it, among others... Even if I hate to admit it, I kind of thought it was okay. But when Filippe put on ketchup on a regular pizza I was devastated. Meu Deus! Even me, a person who couldn´t eat without her ketchup, thought that was the wierdest ever. Then I tried, and I have to say, it was kind of okay too.

Then he told me they put sugar on their avocados.

I won´t even think about going that far...

Enough is enough man!

Oh and yeah, they eat cheese to almost everything here. I think it´s a mistery why people are that skinny. Cheese-diet?

quinta-feira

So today we walked to Lapa, too see the famous stairs. I thought it was beautiful, and I really liked the history behind it. It also was bigger than I thought it would be and had at least one small piece from almost every country in the world, including Sweden of course. So I had to find it!

After that, we went to Catedral São Sebastião, an old catedral from outer space. Or so it seemed. But the inside it was verybeautiful.

After that, we found a post office, so some of you guys will soon be a bit happier then the rest.

We took a cable car up to Santa Teresa and ended up pacing down toward Catete again where my host left me and I jumped on a bus towards Jardim Botânico. I paced around breathing the fresh air and just stayed in the present. Just wow. I wish you could have been there breathing life with me.

Finally home I took an ice cold shower, put on lotion on my soar body and now I am here. Soon Filippe and I are going to an [all you can eat]-pizza place. Then I am invited to come to a bar at Copacabana with Gabi and some others. But first I need to pack my bag, tomorrow I will move from Catete to Copacabana.

Oh, and I finally got in touch with my dad´s friends who lives here in Barra. Or I talked to his wife. So I will meet up with them someday this week.

Onde está o sol?

I don´t know when the sun will show again. It has been gone for three days now. I don´t really complain about it, the sun could be a killer you know. Today I´m not even gonna get close to the beach, I really need to rest my back from the sun at least one day.

The thing is that I want to start doing all the tourist stuff, like hiking to Corcovado and go to The Sugar Loaf. But that acquires a bit less cloudy day. Otherwise I may not be able to enjoy the view, so then what´s the point?! I will save it til the last day if that is what the weather wants me to do, then it wont matter if it´s a storm or not.

Today I will drag my host to the botanical garden and to Lapa, where we will find the famous Snoop Dog-stairs. And I just finishes my postcards, so I will send them back home today. But them I have to buy some more too...

Ambitious night

The girl hasn´t called me yet so I guess there will be no partying for me tonight. But I´ve been up to loads of things since my host left for the movies.

I had a Skype-session with my mom and with my friend Evelyn. Now it seems like both of them are going to join me for a while in Salvador and stay during the carneval. I say that they are doing the right thing.

I have been practicing some songs and listening to music. Then I was suppose to write some own stuff, but I couldn´t get Lady GaGa´s preformance of Speechless on Ellen´s show out of my head, so that never happened.

Then I realized that I was running out of underwear so I had to do wash some laundry. And I did... old style, with a soap in my hands.

Then the phone rang, and I talked with another Couchsurfer that came from Argentina. He wasn´t going to spend the night here tonight as it was planed. But I never new we were suppose to be more here. But I guess the more the marrier.

Oh, and I´ve been starting to write postcards. Or, I wrote one...

And finally I have been looking up some hostels and I found one that caught my attention. It´s by Arpoador, a safe part of Rio, 30 meters from a Police-station, view over both Corcovado and the Sugar Loaf, Metro connection and buses that runs in every direction. They have an own night club that is kind of famous by citizents and not to mention it was cheap. Like 180 Reais for six nights. That´s like cheap to me. Too good to be true though... Something happend when I was booking it and now I think it´s full. There´s no number on the website so I think I have to go there tomorrow and get things right.

Oh, and now she texted me. In portuguese and when I tried to translate it it didn´t make sence, so now what?

Moving, again.

So just five seconds ago my host told me he had to go away. That meens that I need to find somewhere else to stay, from this friday. Sometimes paradise is hard I guess...

I guess tonight is all about finding either a new couchsurfer or a hostel.

Sem barraca de sol

Today I was on my own for the first time here actually.. I went to Ipanema beach with the Metro, bought my breakfast on the way and now I got myself home again. I think that is an acomplishment...

So today I met up with Igor, and later with Gabi and two other girls. We spent a few hours on the beach and then went for lunch. Today it was really cloudy and sometimes it even rained a bit. Still, I almost died from the heat, not kidding. And even though I put on my sunblock like four times I got even more burned. The weather is serious shit. And I didn´t get me a hat eighter.

My host are going to the movies tonight, I don´t really feel like coming with them. So I have three options for tonight.

1. Go to Sugar loaf and watch the sunset. But then I better get going soon.

2. A guy at the beach invited me to a party, and one of Gabi´s friends are maybe going. But that´s the thing... maybe.

3. Stay at home. Write my postcards, watch a movie, finish one of my songs, read some music theory. You know, things I really need to do but have hard to find time to.

We´ll see about that, but I know what I keen for...

Clouds

Looking out the window I see that it's a cloudy day. I was planning on going up to the Sugar Loaf tonight before sunset, but if the sky doesn't show up by then I think it's useless. Looking at the bright side though it's a great day for the beach, and today I'm going to meet up with my friend Gabi and her friends. We're going to Ipanema, again, but it's a good beach. See.

Todays mission is to get me a hat. My face didn't really recover from yesterday, but it's still not that bad. But since it was cloudy yesterday too, I realized I have to be even more careful.

Since it's cloudy I think I will spend my afternoon in the Botanical Garden. And I am almost sure of one thing that I am going to do before I leave Rio. That is Asa delta. I don't know the word in english, but I am totally stoked about that idea.

Oh, and yesterday I bought postcards, now I just have to write them...

Time for breakfasts. Uma salada de fruitas por favor.

Este noite

I am suppose to go to a party tonight. I was invited by Igor earlier today. I'm sure it would be fun, but I'm totally exhausted from todays adventure. And my host is not coming with me so I can only imagine how it will be trying to get back later this night. And yeah, I am suppose to meet him in 30 minutes. I'm in bed, with no make-up won't make it in time anyways..

Baptised by the nature

Today me and my host met up with another Couchsurfer, Igor. We went to Ipanema beach and spent about three hours there. The worst hours of the day, so even if I used my sunblock 50 I got burned. Not too bad though and it will be better in the morning.

After the beach we went up to a park called Floresta da Tijuca. There we went into the forest, climed and I'm telling you, I felt like a Pochahontas, but in a short, blonde version.

And suddenly there it was, Rio's biggest waterfall. I was in Paradise. I don't even have the words to tell you the feeling. But I will show you this.

Day six

Okay, it is almost ten o'clock here and I am a bit restless. My host likes to sleep, apparently. Fortunatley there's two women from France here just for today, so right now I'm not alone. But I want to go to the beach for a few hours before it's too hot and later, after lunch, I want to do some hiking up to either Corcovado or the Sugar Loaf. I will leave Rio in about ten days so it is time for me to be a real tourist you know...

But first, breakfast and then Ipanema...

The new guy

Hey guys.

I just arrived at my new host. He seems nice and friendly, so no need to worry back home. I dont really know what we are going to to tonight, but it seems like that Felippe (yes, same name, different spelling) want to go to one of those All-you-can-eat-places. I am so full I want to puke on the thought of food, but well..

I am relly going to miss the other family, but now when I finally got a number we could hang out before I leave for Salvador. The good part with staying with this new guy is that it is so slose to the beach. YAH, Emily is going to work on her tan a few days. But I am very good when it comes to using my sunblock 50.

What else... hm, yeah..I really need to get myself a deodorant. Meus Deus! That is what I have realized now when I didnt take a shower this morning. I am so so so taking one right away!

Até logo amigos!

Moving on

Today I will leave my host for another one. Felipe goes Filippe, haha.

I have had a great time with this host and the family are, as I said, adorable. There has not been any clubing yet, but now when I got the chance to get to know a few there will be! But yesterday we came home from Cabo Frio. Felipe showed me downtowm and on the afternoon we went to Ipanema. It was so crowded and I almost died in the water, but I had fun and yeah, I am still here in one piece.

After an amazing lunch at 5 p.m. we went to Barra, across the mountain, to see Avatar. I thought it was one of the best movies ever made. I was crying over how good it was!

After that we went to Lagoa and sat by the pier looking at the view of Corcovado and the moon. There wad also a giant christmas tree that changed colors floating on the water.

So now I am going to enjoy my last breakfast with this family. I am gonna miss them. But it is time to move on to another adventure!

Cabo Frio

Today I went up at 5 just to go home from a beatiful place called Cabo Frio. We spent two days there and I had a lovely time with some brasilieros and my portuguese is improving. I dont know what to tell you guys. This city is just amazingly beautiful.

Tonight we are going to see Avatar and then I need to get ready for moving to the next place. This guy I am living with now is going back to France tomorrow so yeah... But i have been lucky to meet his friends and my nickname has become Sueca... Not too hard to know why, right..

Yah yah, I am having a blast. Time to eat and go to the Praia!!

Beijos
Emily