Macae Othon Suites

... Pit-stop in Ottawa November 2010 : Move to Vancouver (to finally settle down, maybe) Mind you, as other people have pointed out already...things happen...and things change. This is an outline I have set for myself. More of places I really want to see/visit before heading back to Canada to set up residence. It's a rather strategic plan...since I'll already be on the other side of the world...I'll country-hop across the globe to eventually make it back to the point I originally ...

... selling of my worldly Brazilian possessions has been going rather well. I'll even get to leave with some extra cash in my pocket! There has been one slight modification in my flight plan. I will not be able to obtain a 60-day single entry visa on my Canadian passport down here in Brazil. I will need to apply for it in person at a Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Canada. I chose the Vancouver location as it would be at an almost halfway point between Rio and Taipei. It makes ...

... this change. People, we're talking other side of the world! They are 12 hours ahead and just live completely different lifestyles. I look forward to experiencing a REAL Chinese New Year and Dragonboat Festival as well dumplings and giant bowls of noodles. Kung Fu and Mandarin are on the list of things to learn. I look forward to becoming a nunchaku master. Since I am female, I won't run the risk of castrating myself. I'll just hurt myself everywhere ...

... path. We walked down a steep bank, holding on to tree branches for support and stepping over gnarled roots and slippery mud. We finally made it to the site and still had to walk down a steep rock face. Thankfully there was a rope there and people used that to help lower themselves. The ceremony began. Sanjaya (yes, the Yoga instructor) was the one performing the ceremony (Jess and Alvinho had had a civil wedding 2 weeks prior). Jessica had written her own vows with ...

... vented her frustrations and after the missing passport ordeal (a good Samaritan found it and turned it in...complete with the fee - in cash - for the visa) she was on the verge of just calling it quits and going somewhere else. I insisted that she should come down and that all this was just a test because she was meant to come down to Brazil. Little did I know how fateful my words would actually be! Jessica Came down at the end of February, right as Carnaval started. She ...

... you worship. The idea is not the God behind the philosophy, but the philosophy itself. If you manage to live your life in the best, and most evil-free way possible and abide by society's rules through worshipping a Golden Dung Beetle Statue (this is an extreme example) then who am I to judge? All I know is that you are a good person who is law-abiding and has a good set of morals (Dung Beetle God aside). I also believe that women and homosexuals should have a right to belong to and ...

... surreal experience, literally flying, looking down on the model village below! You do it in tandem with an instructor, but even so, it felt very wrong when I was running off the side of the mountain! So glad I did this, and I would definitely do it again. Canīt believe tomorrow is my last day. Just one thing left that I want to do - climb Sugar Loaf mountain and watch the sunset. That will be how I spend my last evening of this wonderful trip.

... around 3 or 4 am, but i stayed with a group that made it till the end and we headed out of the stadium after the final group finished at about 5.30am (with a costume in my hands - yea!). We got back to the hotel at 6.30, so went straight for breakfast before heading to bed about 7am... what a fantastic experience. So well worth it. Obviously with a back to front day, i didn't get up until lunch time on the 19th, and headed down to ...

... shrug. To any action they smile broadly flashing their white teeth that would grace any toothpaste advertisement. A girl of seven or eight beckons me over to her desk and looking quite serious asks me something, I don't understand, she waves her pencil about, dutifully I take it to my desk and sharpen it and return it, she looks at it- shakes her head. I notice the rubber tip is missing so I take it back and replace it with a new one, she is still smiling but not ...

... What a shame. Having talked to Fabio of the Travelers` Worldwide organization I know that both Vera and Lisa have done the right thing in taking voluntary work placements with the poor children. Oh that I was young and fit enough to help. This view is after just 30 hours in this fantastic city. Will I change my views? Will I get to see the favellas, will I actually be able to help there or am I better engaged in some other way? Only time will tell.