Well, I’m finally coming back to Canada. Right now I’m in São Paulo airport waiting the flight to Toronto. As soon as I organize my new apartment and settle down I will get back writing in Portuguese. I will only keep writing in English if someone ask me…
I hope you all enjoyed while I was trying to write in another language… and if someone want’s to know more about Brazil, I would be glad to answer all questions.
See ya
Last year on the 22nd I was going on a stage to be graduated in advertising by UNISINOS University.
It was a unique moment, and quite unforgettable. We did a big party after the graduation…
The only other thing that I have to say is that I’m felling old, because I’m already graduated for a year! I have some pics, take a look 🙂
What a style :p
My dad, me, brother and mom.
Today I have a little story to tell 🙂
In the hotel that we stayed in, there where no employee that knew how to speak english…. as Salvador it’s one of the most visited places in Brazil… often english speakers drop by. So one night we were in the computer area and we saw a couple walking around and speaking low, just for them. Carol, said to me: “I think they don’t speak portuguese” They were really blond and REALLY white! So when we were going back to our room we heard them speaking english.
My girlfriend said: “I think they need help” and so we approached them.
The couple where from north England; they were hungry, didn’t know a word in portuguese and couldn’t find food. They arrived at night in Salvador downtown (sort of dangerous neighborhood to walk if you don’t know anything)
We end up helping them to order some chinese food, we called for them and ordered in portuguese and everything. It was fun to speak English with people after almost 3 months 🙂
Fun fact: they booked the hotel typing what they wanted in GOOGLE TRANSLATE in the check-in computer lol.
Have fun with this picture 🙂
Me with fake african hair :p
The trip is getting better with the time been. This time we went to ITAPARICA Island, it’s a island 30 min from Bahia’s capital Salvador in a small boat.
It was a sort of adventure, because one hotel guy, a native from the island, asked if we he could go with us and show everything. So we accepted and we did everything as native from the island… not with the fancy boats and cars that most tourists use.
After we got the 30 min boat we arrived here:
Itaparica port
After that we got into a 50 years old VW-Kombi … look the inside… it was quite an experience :p
It was intense 30 minutes inside this “car”
But all these was worth while when we arrived and saw this:
This is the kind of beach that don’t have any waves and it’s warm. The afternoon was perfect and we had a good time… We also had some nice views that I’m gonna share with you.
As you know, we are good soccer players ANYWHERE, lol.
Well there is a lot to show, so take a look in the slideshow below.
We had very busy these last few days! So I couldn’t post anything. We went to a beach around 150km from Salvador there has a very interesting project called TAMAR. It’s a project that wants to save the turtles!
After we went there we learned somethings about turtles of course. For example, there are seven species of turtle in the world, and in Brazil we only have five. From these five, we actually saw only four, because the one called Leather Turtle only appears in the southeast of Brazil.
Here we have a picture with some hulls from the turtles we can find in Brazil:
We can see from the right to left: Olive, Green and Leather turtles.
The beach have a very nice infra-structure, and because of that we found there a lot of “gringos”… Nice stores, hotels, and it’s a very clean place and interesting to go.
We were lucky that when we arrived they were giving a turtle back to the sea. They treated a turtle that got taken by a fishing net, and tagged to take care of it during it’s life. So here is a picture of the turtle “walking” back to the sea.
So cute :p
We learned that turtles only step in the sand once in their lives, when they are born. After that they only come back to the sand if they are female to spawn. So these little turtle “walked” in the sand the second time in it’s life, so it had some difficulties 😛
Visit the project it’s totally worth it. If you ever consider coming to Salvador, this is a tour that can’t be forgotten.
Hope you liked it, Obrigado, ttyl.
