Canada

Tudo sobre a viagem que vou fazer para o canadá.
Everything about my trip to Canada.

Praia Canadense – Picton Sandbanks

Olá, esse é o primeiro post de verdade da nova jornada, e olhem que conveniente, temos um post muito bacana para fazer!

Hoje o setor internacional da St. Lawrence organizou o dia numa praia que fica em torno de 1h30min de Kingston. O motivo foi fazer uma integração entre os alunos internacionais de uma forma diferente e agradável. Posso dizer que eles acertaram em cheio. Todo mundo gostou bastante e se divertiu. Teve futebol, volei, frisbie, gente enterrada… todas as atividades de praia. Mas a experiência é totalmente diferente de uma praia de mar.

Para começar a “praia” é do Lago Ontário, ou seja água doce; fica dentro de uma reserva florestal; a areia não é suja;  não tem nenhum bar/restaurante na beira da água, temos que levar nossa própria farofa :p

A areia é branquinha como vimos acima, e a água é limpa e calma. Nesse lago não tem pedra, é somente areia… o que deixa muito gostoso de entrar e ficar fazendo jogos e se divertindo no lago.

Eu sei o que vocês vão me perguntar, e a água é gelada? Sim senhor é gelada… mas como o dia estava muito bonito vamos dizer que a água foi refrescante.

Amanhã tenho um dia cheio, é o dia de introduções de todos os cursos… então a Carol e o Gui estarão lá….

Eu tenho um compromisso com a minha mentora do programa que desenvolvemos semestre passado. As aulas começam de verdade na quarta-feira.

Getting back to Canada

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

Helping

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

Tamar Project

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.

Flamengo Beach, Salvador.

After a year and a half finally I had a “beach day”. We went to a very nice one located in the north of Salvador called “Flamengo Beach”. It was a 1 hour bus trip but totally worth it.

We got nice chairs, beach umbrella and stayed on the beach from 10 a.m to 5 p.m. The sea was a bit cold, but a little bit after noon the sea went back a little and it created “natural pools” incredibly nice to swim and calm.


This is a picture of Carol coming out from one of them.

We had some culinary experiences too. We had the famous “Grilled cheese in a stick” it’s delicious and kinda cheap. We also ate some Crab Pasteis

Grilled cheese, nhamy.

It was a fun and calm day on the beach. Tomorrow we are going to see SEA TURTLES 😀 I hope the place it’s open.

See ya

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