More Rain :(

So the past few days it has been raining. It sucks, because when it rains here, it pours! Apparently it's been a really bad summer this year (global warming? dare i say it..?!)

Yesterday we didn't go into project because of the rain, but managed to summon up the courage to go out later on. We were trying to find a Jazz cafe which we thought was nearby but on second thoughts was probably further than we thought. Anyway, didn't find it at all but ended up at a little bar that sort of spilled out onto the street as the night went on. Danni and I shared 2 beers, and then were just about to head off home when we were called over by a group of Brazilians so we sat and chatted to them for a while (bit of an issue with language, but one of them spoke good english..!). It was good fun, and we've even been invited to a BBQ with them tomorrow... not sure whether to go or not yet...

It was raining again this morning, but after yesterday we decided we really should make a huge effort (even huger given that we'd got in after midnight so had about 6 hours sleep :O ). It was really good fun once we got there. We took another volunteer called Lianne who got really stuck into making carnival head-dresses out of magazines, and a guy called Rob who immediately started showing some of the older boys how to fix the electrics and shower and stuff. The rest of us did a lot of cutting out people from magazines and then ripping up strips of bright paper to make them little carnival costumes. Good fun but very messy! Later on, Stevie and I attempted to give an English lesson... wasn't great! The kids kept asking us words they wanted to know, so by the end the blackboard was full of words like stadium, flipflop, jumper, How are you?, pencil etc etc. We had been intending on doing colours... never mind!!

So tonight we are just planning to go out to Lapa (but it's raining... :( bad times!). Firstly, however, we are going to play Ring of Fire... could be interesting!!

Tchau xxx