Hotel Tropico Luanda

... of those bone-breaking, teeth-chatt**ing corrugation road piece of ****! It was once tarmac but it has slowly become compacted sand ov** the last 5 or 6 years. It was on one of these corrugation sections that tradegy struck - the truck hit an unseen rut and the bottom part of the radiator swung back into the fan bending and braking it...brillant. To add to our woes the fan put a new hole in our radiator and split the seam on the base. We did manage to ...

... and Lebanese road engine**s, who arranged for us to camp in their construction site whilst they found some good radiator mechanics. When we finally got back on the road two days lat**, some of the girls w**e sad to leave the show**s, washing machine, int**net and cooking of the expat's maid...whilst Chris and Gary worried about the delay in our tight schedule to get to Namibia.

Aft** managing to get a 5-day visa ...

... Mitsubishi em gás, que parou assim que me viu esticar o polegar. Tinha 5 chineses lá dentro e eles nem se deram ao trabalho de baixar a janela para cumprimentar, me fizeram só o sinal para subir na quintal da jipi. Andámos bwé por essa estrada enlameada, vimos carros que por lá ficaram, tentámos caminhos alternativos que corriam a um escasso metro das pipelines da Total, passámos mal em alguns troços e quando eles finalmente me depositaram desculpando-se "amigo hoji fical aqui", eu ...

Durante o tempo em que estivemos envolvidos com o Projeto Angola foi possível ver a poderosa mão de Deus sobre as nossas vidas. Eu falei para os estudantes em uma de nossas reuniões: nós precisaremos de um milagre de Deus para irmos para Angola. Ainda bem, porque Deus é especialista em milagres! Um dia em frente ao portão da UERJ o Eric disse que estava indo falar em uma igreja sobre o projeto e que ...

... com ele enquanto eu estava evangelizando outra pessoa e queria me conhecer. Eu fiquei surpreso quando o Felisberto me apresentou o seu amigo. O Prata me disse que estava muito curioso e que se sentiu atraído para saber sobre o que eu estava falando. Principalmente por ter saído do Brasil para ir até lá somente para falar sobre aquele assunto. Ele achou que esta minha atitude era muito interessante e queria saber ...

... A água - No local onde ficamos não havia água encanada e a energia elétrica era fornecida por um gerador. A Eliza ficou responsavel pelo tratamento da nossa água. Ela havia separado a água para escovarmos os dentes e para tomarmos banho. Um dia eu disse: Eliza, a nossa água de escovar os dentes está cheia de lervas, e elas estão vivas! Exclamei sorrindo. Então ela gritou: Ai meu Deus! Foi muito engraçado.

... how to play sax. We then moved on to Paulos.. It was dead, so before I knew it, we headed home. I took a shower got dressed (shoes and everything), 1 hour later - the guard was rap-tap-taping on my chamber door. To the airport, saw one of my friends who was actually leaving Angola for good. After a couple hours of waiting in the airport we headed out.

The next morning, we wake up, side-by-side, buckled in, dry mouthed, head pounding, inside his car, right in front of his father's house. We both look at each other and start laughing. "Heck, what a night. Lets go to the beach." We drive to pick up Burity's cousin and then were off to Luanda. There's little traffic, so we're there before we know ...

Since I returned to Luanda, I had been helping prepare for two testing jobs... one for Esso (ExxonMobile) and the other for Devon. Both companies were drilling in the same offshore block and both had already drilled two dry wells and currently drilling the third. So my boss then felt inclined to inform ...

... his third story balcony among friends. With his thick Scottish accent he shouted, "Come on up, thru the door!" We entered through the gate door and on through the front door. The house is very nice. It is finished with a blue tile pattern all throughout the outside. Inside is equally as nice; similarly to the rest of Luanda, the house and all its fixtures are about 30 years outdated. On the top balcony, you had an exceptional view. Behind his ...