Hotel Nacional Village Inn
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Last day!
Today was my last day at work - 3 months has finished already! I am the last of the foreigners in my house to go, its crazy. Was a bit sad today actually to leave, just started getting used to the place. Been working with some really nice ...
Coming home..
... really good and it was a good end of my time in Brazil. We had a little Good-bye party with some few friends in our house and we drank a lot and talked about the time there. Although I didn’t like all the time there when I was there the four months in the beginning that one week in the end changed a lot. And letting the place and the house and the people go did really hurt and it wasn’t easy at all. Thank you guys for an unforgettable time there in our "Republica Fossa". Já ...
A rather good weekend
... one turned up. Ah well.
Today we finally got around to finding the waterfalls that everyone seemed to know about, but no-one had actually visited. All we knew was that they were near campus, and possibly at a posh hotel just outside town. After a trip in a taxi we ruled out the hotel, and eventually were left on a dirt track leading to a load of farms. Only about 10 minutes out of town, but very different. Instead ...
One (and a bit) months in
... been up to much this past week. Had our weekly trip to SESC to see some music, actually went into the lab a few days and then had a night out on Thursday. Yesterday was a holiday so currently in the middle of a 3-day weekend, which will be a 4-day weekend for me. Got some Portuguese homework to do at some point and have just finished watching the first weeks videos for my first online course with Coursera. Not blown away so far, but hopefully it will pick up. My ...
A bit of work!
Here thanks to IAESTE - working in the Physical Chemistry department of UNESP (occasionally). Staying at a 'Republica' which is essentially student accommodation here. We're pretty stable at 9 girls now - they don't do things small here.
Been up to a lot so far, they have SESC centres here which are pretty much leisure centres on steroids. Free music at least once a week - so far we've seen samba bands, ...