Luxor Corais e Conchas Buzios

... with a nice lil vibe until a cruise ships pull in and then all the tranquility vanishes for a few hours as frantic gringos run a muck in town snaping photos of everything and buying the over prices trinkets of the vendors i had lots of fun in buzios really enjoyeed it the hostel was brand new and really cool great friendly staffi even got commented on how good my english was jaja i def would have stayed longer if i already didnt have plans with friends in cabo frio Cheers

... I forget where. I think one of the very best things *bout br*zil *nd wh*t I will miss the most besides the people *re these l*nchonettes. And yes, I love gu*r*viton, gu*r*vit*, gu*r*n* *nything. I even like M*tte Leon - which I could sell too. If you w*nt to go into business together, let me know. We could be rich. In c*se nobody s*w it, Therici*n posted * comment on one of the pictures (btw, if you click on * picture you c*n see * slideshow ...

... beach. You can buy suncream, beer, towels, shrimp sticks, sunglasses all without moving from your spot on the beach. Of course Mike, as he has in EVERY country we´ve been in, got offered drugs, that would be a "no thank you very much." So... to the big day! Sarah woke me up at 8am.... Sarah: "Get up, my love, I´m sending you to jump off a mountain". Mike: "Ok, anything for you, my darling" One hour later and sure enough I was jumping off the ...

... of-all-trades and general vacation filler-inner. I look forward to throwing on some oily coveralls and learning to drive a fork-lift. LOL. Things have been going well, I have impressed my manager with my resourcefulness and have been complimented for doing so. I am super thankful to my manager for having rescued me from rotting away in reception...and so will always strive to do my best for him. He's very gruff and direct at times...but he does great work and so far I ...

So it is Carnaval time, and that means no sleep. It has been a crazy few days, and even crazier nights... very little sleep is taking place amongst all the hostel guests. It´s turned out to be a really cool group of people here, and since we are all locked into the 7 day Carnaval package, we´ve all gotten to know each other pretty well. It is nice to have the same people around instead of new people every day. So here´s a quick run down ...

... one of the 2 bathrooms (for how many people?) was brutal. Thank god for flip flops. Now for a body shield of sorts... I´m already missing the place we were at in Florianopolis... :( So right now John is on the phone with a prospective employer. They are very interested and were in a hurry to talk to him. After that we are going to attempt the brutal showers and then get some much needed food.

... Everything was wet, damp and gross in my house and there was just no end to the rain in sight. There is nothing that depresses me more than rain...especially knowing I have the ocean in my backyard and could be on the beach getting tanned if it were hot and sunny. Lívia was spending her first full week with me...and seemed to be adapting to the leakage problem we were having very nicely. I, however did not appreciate having a natural swimming pool in my ...

... during New Years through Carnaval, with all these cool people, and I already had friends here from other places, limited work, close to São Paulo and rain forest, in a city that I still need to explore a lot...I couldn´t pass it up! Hope you guys have a good New Years, and Nick don´t stress the work project too much! I´ll see what I can do about getting pictures up, but like I said I only have a couple. I´ll try to get some from Ken or something - he took a million.

... no other means to entertain myself in my own house. Following that episode I was severely depressed for about a week (I felt utterly defeated) and only left the house to go teach (twice a week). I DID manage to find a company that could give me internet. Of course they were way more expensive than I probably would've ever gone with...BUT...with them being my ONLY option...I had to suck it up and take it. I've had internet for 1 week now...and have accomplished quite a ...

... were. All I wanted was stewed tomatoes, I stared at all the cans for a good fifteen minutes before guessing at which one it might be and I still ended up with salsa, but it still worked. It was all locals at the hostel this weekend, all very nice, I got lots of emails. I taught two of the guys how to play poker, it was fun trying to communicate but it gets exhausting after awhile. Saturday night was by far the highlight of my trip so far. I went with the girl who runs the hostel and ...