Monte Pascoal Salvador

workin doin hostels website in xchange for port lessons, ended up just doing linkword with her hmmmmmmmmmm
drumming is fantastic here, loud 24/.7 i can do it!!!
did capoeirra, teacher was hardcore, are you sposed to push a stretch til you literally feel its gonna snap? great doing the dance, feel ...

... but it was stunning in its own right. A natural beach with grass and high reeds meeting the sand and the water gently lapping the edges. There were some gypsies, Bahian people with horses who offered us a ride on their animals for 10 reales. David and I took them up on their offer and went riding on the horses which I think were wild. When we begun to trot I didn’t feel too secure without a helmet and with the seat flipping from side to side! But it was great to ride the horse ...

... The Bloco's are a bit of an elitist thing for the Brazilians who see entry as showing off their wealth due to the high cost of buying the T-shirts. For gringo's like me it's the safest place to be at carnival, if the locals can afford T-shirts to get in to the Bloco, their less likely to rob me, unless they stole the T-shirts which often happens. I think we've picked a really good Bloco, it was full of young Brazilian's and hardly any Gringo's, which is the way I like it. Plus ...

... what was going on. It was a joyous lesson and I realised i~m free to move on and that I have every thing I need. The price of freedom is eternal vigillance! moving on past those things that hold you back, bring you down and stop you from growing. I asked Mestre King if I coudl return next year and train with him for 6 months and he said I could always return to train with him. (big smile here). Marlene has ...

... off we went into the thick of things. It was great. We saw Jailton performing with Swingue do Pelo and when he saw me he practically jumped into my arms, welcoming me to Bahia. He grabbed my hand and made sure he introduced me to the mestre of Swingue do Pelo as ´the professora from Australia´. I got a big sweaty hug from him as well. Yesterday I also went and did the touristy things. Returned to the beach, got bright red. Got my hair braided. Let myself get apprehended by a street ...

After staying the first few days at Praia do Flamengo, Stella Maris, five minutes walking from a splendid beach and five minutes by car from the international airport of Salvador, we moved in Sunday night at Ze´s and Marcio´s flat in Ondina, in the centre of Salvador, some 20 kilometers from praia do Flamengo. Beautifully decorated penthouse on the 10th floor in a quiet residential area, close to Barra Shopping, Salvador´s oldest shopping center. Nevertheless we went to ...

... en toute occasion...La musique aux accents africains, envoutante, prenante, qui vous emmen**ait dans les ruelles aux rythmes des p**cussions et de mouvements de jambes et de bras incessants et saccades ! Et ces images ne sont ni trompeuses ni fausses... Nous arrivons a Salvador par une chaude voire cuisante apres midi. Les paves sont brulants et la chaleur passe au trav**s des semelles de nos baskets a toutes ...

... and I ´faz muito alegre/alegria´...which I had no idea what it meant and I´ve been told about 5 times now ( by Loi, Anderson, Nei, Wendell etc) , but I didn´t know what it means. I´m completely touched now as I understand it means I make or have ´cheerfulness, joy, good energy´ - very sweet. Djarma went easier on us today and he actually taught a routine that contained a lot of moves that helped my legs get stretched and my hips return to their normal ...

... popcorn) probably because of the way everyone is dancing up and down to the music. It can get very crowded in the popcorn areas because there are so many people, especially near a float that is really popular as everyone tries to follow it along dancing as they go. In Salvador there are three main routes circuits - Barra, Campo Grande and Pelhourino all very different. Carnival goes for 6 nights so started on the Thursday. We headed to the circuit close to us ...

... spanish so I give it a shot and I ask "Voce tem espejo?" And low and behold she does and lower and beholder espejo is mirror in portuguese as well as spanish, pimp. Actually, many words in spanish are very similar or sometimes the same as their counterparts in portuguese, but what makes portuguese so difficult is the pronunciations, as it has a pronounced french influence. Spanish is cake (not literally) compared to portuguese. I am happy again ...