the end!

Chapada, Brasilia, São Paulo

hola gente!

e ai .. tudo beleza?

am in são paulo since two days. moved today from the hostal to frensh frie-guy, because i found it too expensive to stay some days in the hostal here. i knew some peolpe travelling who i am meeting in these days here, so they helped me to find somebody where i can stay and found this guy who makes couchsurfing and now i stay here in his apartment and i don’t have to worry about the expensive nights

i feel very well in são paulo. it’s very modern, peolpe are more modern (clothes, look) and i have peolpe how show me around, just a petty that it is raining a lot. but i am chilled, so its ok. i am very emotional and looking forward to go back to rio at the weekend  

São Paulo seems a mix out of Buenos Aires, Quito, New York … and looking down from a huge building you just see buildings and buildings and buildings. incredilbe!

Brasilia was also very interesting. it was short but anough to get an idea. it’s veeery green and wide. it’s like a lot of villages with space between. eric, a guy i met in maracaípe picked us up (i travelled with neil, northern ireland) from the airport and showed us around and explained – veery sympatic!!

without car you can’t do much in this city. there isn’t any center, walking zone …

everything there is so new and correctly planned, and from the television tower you can see the symmetrie of the pilot body.

we spent the night in eric’s house with some of his friends, the next day i joint their capoeria class and then we just went straight to the chapada dos veadeiros because the weather was quite rainy.

one day in alto paraiso we walked to some waterfalls television-like!! we were almost alone and the water was just cristal green!

then we spent 2 days in são jorge, the little village at the nacional park entrance and made some hikes and nice daytrips. but the weather was very insecure so i headed straight to são paulo – my last overnight bus!

yes, my last destination, incredible! going back to rio …hm. and today i knew that my loved samba de 4ta feira isn’t goiing on at the moment because of complaining of the neighbours bah!

até logo, cheers, tudo de boa*carolina

sanddunes and maranhão

oi galera!

yes, em, i am in são luís, maranhão and tomorrow i have a flight to brasilia. neil from ireland and his nice accent will come with me. the created city with some different things liker other cities. everybody is asking you “why are you going there?”

well for me there were a few reasons … it was the cheapest way to go south – instead of passing foz du iguaçu, what my plan was – , i wanted to gop back to a chapada, a nacional park in the interior because i wasn t satisfied with ust the week in the chapada diamantina/bahia, and i met some guysfrom brasilia in maracaúpe and they told me a bit about the city and said they can show me around a bit.

well, it´s just a few things what the diffrence makes: i won´t find a old house in this young city, i won´t find native peolpe and the order and the names of the streets is diffrent. oscar niemayr built that city like a airplane. so you live in one of wings, or in the body …. and the governmental buildings occupy a certain part of the airplane ….

then i will meet peolpe from all the parts of brasil who went living there. from everywhere! will be an incredible mixture.

i don´t know if i will see and recognize all these things in just 2 or 3 days, but i try and will have an impression ;-) and i will pass the last days of my 7 month in the nature. it´s been weeks that i am on the coast. i will leave the sea  now. it´s just cities left. afterwards i will go to são paulo and then just heading back to rio. i miss it a lot now. well my friends there and the samba! it will be hard to say goodbye, but i will also love it going back at the 24.  to my beautiful room, my bed, my friends and my school. yeah, going back to complain “i miss brasil” ;-D

i had really nice weeks now. i really enjoyed the northeast. i also heard peolpe saying “further north you are going, as nicer it is”.

the last days i spent the time with giovanni from napoli and in the nacional park of lençois maranhenses we had a crazy nice day with the carioca flavio and the spanish david. will upload photos then. 

peolpe are very nice and friendly and the landscape is beautiful. a lot of sanddunes, with green inbetween and cows, donkyes and horses …

i am always wondering again how talkactive peolpe are in this country. thats  what you get to feel every day and every where you go. mainly traveling alone or with peolpe also talking portugese.

i mean they just wanna talk all the time and about everything. about interesting and important things about their country, my country, the world, the economy, sustainable works … really interesting conversations until talking about daily stuff, problems, little happinesses … it doesn´t care were you are, – the toilet line, busstation, eating – always and everywhere somebody will speak to you.

ok, leaf you …

i am a bit confused, maybe i just write things dobble .. it´s a bit that i am in the internet.

tudo beleza, massa, take care, love and hugs,

carolina*

north-eastest

hello world!

am in natal, very north east of brasil (~5250 km to africa).  sitting at the busstation, waiting for my nightbus to fortaleza where i pick another bus to jericoacoara (it took me weeks to learn this word).

the last weeks have been very chill and veeery nice.

one week in the chapada diamantina, lençois, i enjoyed the beatiful inland. i think i uploaded photos. meet very nice people and had a great time, learned a lot about the regions and landscape change, and also about the circle of peoples life who end up in the favels. have been to an quilombo. thats the places where the sclaves went to start a new life as they made it to run away. obviously the went far from any civilisation, that they couldn´t be found. nowadays the familie are still living there. and as they don´t use condoms and stuff they make a lot of children, who can´t live in their little house living just from some vegetables, rice and manjoca. so one day they go to the cities, live in the favela to surch for a job and end up in the drug traffic.

that and more was very interesting for me to see, as i knew and saw how is things going in rio. now i know and saw also how it all begins and how they live there.

then i went to recife and stayed with thomas from my capoeria group in berlin. he and his girlfriend ute are making their doctor in recife and we passed some nice days together on the carneval in recife and olinda or chilled in their huge roof apartment.

rio guys do you know who i met there in recife? pedro from our school from the fibra guys! that was so cool!

then i went with yvonne from cologne south to maracaípe (porto de galinhas). oh that was so nice. i went diving and hang around there for one week. met really nice girls. had a really great time. sleeping in the hammock 30 meters from the beach. water, sand, air, sun, stars, the moon and the ound of the waves. that was all about. sleeping early because waking up at 7.30 and just chill!

nicole and me started the tight-moon-mission*

the same then in pipa, between recife and natal. another surf spot, with a delfin beach too! very beautiful landscape, red cliffs, which i enjoyed with nicole from canada. built a new home with the hammocks under trees on a campsite and all we were was just happy – and tired at 11 in the evening!

we stopped the tight-moon-mission with the fullmoon*

nicole went south, i went with jean, a brasilian guy living in freiburg/germany north to natal were we rent a car yesterday and had a bit a strange, interesting, chaos day … went snorkeling and to the sand dunes …

the change of the landscape is amazing. it´s so cool to see how it gets diffrent. here now are beginning the sand dunes. and i´m so glad that on all of my trips i can speak with the peolpe. it´s so great and i´m learning a lot in the last few weeks …

it´s the first time now since maracaípe that i´m not so frightent anymore. leef bags on the beach .. not more so paranoid ..

hey i hope you are all good their outside!!

thank you for your mails guys!

ohio – hau rein! i miss you too!

rio – saudades grandes de você. falta pouco e ja volto …

have one hour left so i ll upload some pics..

beiijos and love*carolina

paradies and salvador

Hallo!

Nach unserem tollen aufenthalt in arraial d´ajuda bei barbara, max und india aus mailand und den zwischenstops in trancoso und caraíva sind wir weiter nach norden nach itacaré. Hier haben wir eine brasilianische freundin von giulia getroffen die sie aus ihrer londonziet kennt. Nach all diesen netten touriorten in bahia sind wir im paradies barra grande angekommen.

Katha, in itacaré musst du eine jeaptour fuer ca. 60 real machen um nach barra grande zu kommen. Es gibt keine oeffentlichen verkehrsmittel dahin weil es auf einer peninsula liegt und nur sandstrassen hinfuehren. Die andere moeglichkeit – die man dann auch nimmt um nach Salvador zu kommen – ist von camamu mit dem boot. Die jeaptour ist nett. Man heizt mit dem jeap durch die einsame landschaft bis man zu dem touristrand `taipú da fora´ kommt. Hier kann man sich dank der jeaptour die wir gemacht haben in ein relativ teueren restaurantgarten auf holzliegen mit kissen hauen und sich einfach nur falsch fuehlen. Das war lustig denn wir haben dort natuerlich nichts bestellt aber trotzdem dort alles benutzten koennen. Wir fuelhten uns komisch zwischen den gut betuschten brasilianschen touristen und warteten jeden moment darauf dass jemand kommt und uns auffordert die liegen zu bezahlen … aber, alles gut! J irgendwann fiengen wir an uns wohl zu fuehlen und den strande zu unserem lieblingsort zu kueren. Am nachmittag geht man schnorcheln. Naja, ausser dass es eine komische fischart gab fand ich es nicht so besonders, aber ich denke dass kommt darauf an was man gewoehnt ist. Und man kann sich auch wie giulia ewig den eigenartigen fischen beschaeftigen, die naemlich keine angst vor menschen haben! Hab ich noch nie gesehn. Naja, aber auch die krebse die am strand rumrennen und ihre loecher schaufeln haben nicht wirklich angst vor uns! (siehe unser krebsfreund auf den fotos) :-O jedenfalls versucht dieser fisch sein territotuim zu beschuetzen und rammt einen staendig ins bein wenn man seinem riff zu nahe kommt! Manchmal ist er dann doch unsicher und kehrt wieder um …

Von dort aus kannst du fuer 5 rael einen truck nehmen die immer wenn sie voll sind nach barra grande fahren. Es ist wie caraívas ein oertchen mit sandstrassen, da saber noch nicht so touristenueberlaufen ist. Am tollsten ist einen spaziergang nach taipú da for a zu machen (8 km) und zurueck. Es ist ainfach traumhaft an einem fast menschenleeren strand zu spazieren. Und dazu noch einer der schoensten die ich je gesehen habe. Zum sonnenuntergang dann bitte wieder zurueck in b.g. sein, dann kannst du vor dem letzten campingplatz am in der bucht noch mal ein bad im lilagefaerbten wasser nehmen und vor freude saltos im ruhigen meer schlagen.

in Salvador haben wir unsere zelte bei nico, einem anderen freund von giulia aufgeschalgen. Er wohnt in rio vermelho und den ausblick der wohnung kann man auf den fotos sehen. Ich wuerde sagen ich bin gerade einfach nur gechillt. Ein paar tage in so einem schoenen ort, mit meeresblick und ganz viel licht zu verbringen, sich ausruhen, schlafen und essen – was will man mehr! Da durch dass staedte auf der reise ja eh immer so ein anstrengender punkt sind. Giulia ist nun nach hause zurueckgekehrt, traurig im kalten mailand und ich werde dann nun noch ins hostel umziehen um Salvador noch von der anderen seite kennen zu lernen.

Dann gehts ins landesinnere in die chapada diamantine und bald steht ja schon carnival vor der tuer den ich bei Thomas in recife verbringen werde.

Hoffe euch geht es soweit gut, alles liebe,

Caro*

Ciao belli!

Dopo quei bei giorni in arraial d´ajuda da Barbara, max e india da milano e i salti a trancoso e caraíva siamo salite piú al nord ad itacaré. Lí abbiamo incontrato una vecchia amiga brasiliana che la giulia conosce dal suo tempo a londra. Dopo tutti questi paesini carini turistici siamo arrivate nel paraíso barra grande. E uno dei piú belli posti che ho mai visto! Kilomtri spiaggia bellissima, dove si incontra veramente poche persone. La sabbia bella, le palme ed anche il mare! Una cosa meravigliosa! Fantastica. Da taipú da fora, dove si pou fare il snorkeling o giocare con i pesci come la giulia si puo caminare 8 kilomtri a barra grande. Belleza! Ma, questi pesci strani, cioé, non lo avevo mai vista. Pesci che non hanno paura dai uomini! Appena ti sei avicinata al suo reef é arrivato uno che ti ha picchiato nella gamba oppure poi ha capito che como un pesce non si fa e si é girato e tornato … tsts. Ma anche i granchi non avevando tanta paura. Visto il amigo granchio nella foto!

Poi per il tramonto si fa un altro bagnetto arrivando a barra grande nel mare tranquillo e viola …

A salvador ci siamo fermate da nico, un altro amico dalla giulia che vive in rio vermelho con una vista meraviglioso sobre il mare. Fantastico per riposarsi un po! In questi giorni in questo bel posto ho quasi solo riposato, mangiato e dormito – che si vuole di piú!

Tanto le cittá sono sempre una cosa per se nel viaggio. Giulia é tornata a casa e sta nel triste e freddo milano ed io mi trasloco in un hostel per conoscere un po l´altra parte di salvador …

Poi andró nel entroterra nella chapada diamantina e poi fra un po é giá carnevale quale passeró da thomas in recife.

Spero che tutti voi stanno bene, un bacio,

carolin*

Hey there!

After our nice days in arraial d´ajuda with Barbara, max and india from Milan and our trips to caraíva and trancoso we headed further north to itacaré.

Here we met an old brasilian friend from giulia from her London times.

After all these cut touristy places we arrived in the paradise barra grande.

It´s like caraíva a village with sandy streets, but not yet so crowded with tourits. It´s one of the nicest beaches I have ever seen. You can walk from the beach taipú da fora 8 km to barra grande an meeting very less people. The beach is beautiful, a lot of palm trees and the water is fantastic! an amazing walk … in taipú da for a you can go snorkeling but I didn´t find it so good. But I think it depends on what you are used to. Giulia had a lot of fun playing with these strange fishes. As you came close to their reef one arrived and pick you in your leg. Sometimes they remembered that they were fishes and stopped and turned back. Hm! But also the craps aren´t so shy to the humans! .. seen our crap friend on the fotos …

Here in Salvador we stayed in the house of nico, a other friend of giulia who lives in rio vermelho with this beautiful view over the ocean. In fact i´m mainly chilling these days. Giulia went back to gray sad Milan, and i´m just sleeping, eating and enjoying.

Now I will move to an hostel to know the other side of Salvador and then I´ll go in the inland to chapada diamantina and afterwards heading to recife, where I will pass carneval in thomas´ place.

I hope you are fine guys!

sarah and Krista a lot of thoughts and sun for you,

Love carolin*

 

Hola gente,

Escuchei que no era muy bien por entender lo portuges entonces voy continuar escribir tambien en espangnol. Pero tengo un poco dificultá. Bien.

Talvez algien se acorda de la giulia que tambien me fue vistiar en perú. Ella estaba aqui por 20 dias. Despúes rio e douro preto pasamos lo tiempo en bahia. Arraial d‘ajuada em casa de uma amiga de giulia, trancoso e caraíva tambien lindos lugares. En itacaré encontramos una otra amiga brasiliana de giulia que ella conocío en suas tiempos de londres. Y despúes llegamos en el paradiso – barra grande.

Uma meraviglia! La playa, el agua y los palmeras son uma beleza! Se puede caminar muchos kilometros y encontrar solo pochos personas. Increivle!

La giulia se divertío con los pesces extraños que se acercan al hombre cuando se llega cerca al reef e toca la pierna. A vezes se dan cuenta que son pesces e paran e se giran … pero tambien los cranjeiros no tienen muchos medo. Se ve el nuestro amigo en los fotos

Aqui en salvador nos chedamos en casa de un otros amigo de giulia que tiene una casa linda con una vista meravigliosa. Entonces estoy un poco descansando .. dormiendo y comiendo. La giulia já volvío por casa, esta en el triste y frío milan. yo ahora me muevo por un hostal para conecer el otro lado de salvador, despúes chapada diamantina e carnevale en recife en casa de thomas.

Espero que todes lo estan pasando bien, besitos de carolina*

Oi gente,

Tudo bem? Tou com um pouco saudade do rio!

Depois que a gente estava curtindo o tempo em arraial d’ajuda com Barbara, max e india do Milão e ums passeios por caraíva e trancoso fomos pra itacaré aonde encontramos uma amiga carioca de giulia de seus tempos em londres.

Lugares todas lindas, mas só agora chegamos no paraíso – barra grande. Que maravilha. As praias dessa península são um dos praias mais lindas que jamais vi! o caminho de 8 km de taipú de fora até barra grande e uma maravilha. As palmeiras, a areia e o mar são fantásticos! E a coisa mais linda é que se encontra poucas pessoas … uffa! J

Em taipú de fora, aonde se tem que passar pra chegar em barra grande se pode mergulhar. Eu não achava muito bom, mas a giulia se divertiu bastante com os peixes.

Que estranhos que são. Chegando perto no reef um desses peixes chega e toca a perna.

Hm. Mas a vezes se davam conta que eram peixes e paravam no meio caminho e se giravam. Mas também os caranguejos baianos não têm medo – viu o amigo nas fotos

Agora em salvador curtimos o tempo na casa dum outro amigo de giulia que mora no rio vermelho com uma visto spectacular sobre o mar. Nesse lugar lindo tou descansando nessos dias, comendo e dormendo só … giulia já foi pra casa e ta em milão triste e frio.

Eu agora me mudo por uma posada pra conhecer também o outro lado do salvador e depois vou pra chapada diamantina.

carnavale vou passar na casa de um amigo, thomas, em recife ….

espero que tudo mundo está bom!

beijos de carolina*

 

 

 

 

rio, ouro preto, bahia

Moin moin!

Die letzte zeit in rio war sehr schoen. Weihnachten, ilha grande und zu silvester kam meine freundin giulia aus mailand dann – zwar mit chaos – aber nachdem sie fast nach Salvador befoerdert wurde weil es eine person gab mit dem gleichen namen, dann aber nach brasilia gebracht wurde und schlussendlich spaet, aber doch noch in rio ankam, schafften wir es unglaublicherweise noch uns mit meinen freunden um 23.45 (!!) in copacabana zum grossen feuerwerk zu treffen. Ich habe noch nie so ein beeindruckendes feuerwerk gesehen, das einen mit seiner lautstaerke innerlich total mitnimmt. Nach ein paar letzten touritagen, unter anderem mit drachen fliegen von perda bonita in são conrado (siehe flickr) und einer samba abschiedsnacht haben wir rio verlassen. Mit meiner freundin marta und cesar sind wir nach ouro preto, minas gerais, 8 h noerdlich von rio, gefahren, wo uns cesar seine kleine idyllische mienenstatstadt in den bergen gezeigt hat. Dann sind wir auf, eine 20 std fahrt nach bahia. Eine freundin von giulia aus mailand hat sich hier mit ihrem mann und tochter im paradisischen arraial d’ajuda, suedlich von porto seguro niedergelassen, wovon wir gerade ganz begeistert provitieren. Haengematten, garten natur pur, paradisische tiergeraeusche, der kleine blonde engel und ein temporaerer mitbewohner aus der rio-favela rocinha. ein absolut wunderschoenes haus mit viel liebe eingerichtet wo mein interior-designer herz wieder hoeher schlaegt und mich wieder in dem bezeugt was ich machen will Auch wieder erstaunlich zu sehen dass ich mich nach einem tag ausschliesslich italiensch komplett in diese welt geschmissen hab. Das gehirn ist echt einfach zu verarschen. Portugisisch ist gerade weit weg!! Komisch :-O Werden die tage hier sein mit abstechern nach trancoso und caraiva, dann gen norden eine andere freundin von giulia in itacaré treffen, chapada diamantina und dann auch schon giulias letztes ziel Salvador. Alles liebe, caro*

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Buon giorno tutti!

I’ultimo tempo a rio è stato bello. Natale, ilha grande e poi per capodanno è arrivata giulia da milano. con un casino, che quasi l’hanno fatto andare a Salvador perchè c’era un’altra persona con lo stesso nome, poi l’hanno fatto andare a brasilia e alla fine meno male è arrivata tardi, pero è arrivata alle 23.45 a copacabana e incredibilmente abbiamo festeggiato mezzanotte con i miei amici e i fuochi d’artifici emozionanti insieme! Dopo alcuni giorni di giri turistici, anche il deltaplano da são conrado abbaimo fatto (fotos sul flickr) e una notte del addio ce ne siamo andati via da rio con la mia amica marta e cesar siamo partiti per ouro preto, minas gerais, 8 ore al nord di rio, dove cesar ci ha fatto vedere la sua cittá carinissima mineralia nelle montagne. Poi dopo altre 20 ore di pullman siamo arrivate a bahia. Qui, ad arraial d’ajuda, sud di porto seguo, si è trasferita una amica milanese dalla giulia col marito e la figlia. Meraviglia!! Noi ora ci godiamo il rumparadiso. hanno la casa bellissima, amace, gardino, natura pura, i suoni dei animali, il angelo piccolo e il coinquilino temporale dalla rio-favela rocinha. Cioé, è una cosa meravigliosa qui, questa casa, tutto fatto con amore, mi fa battere il mio cuore del designer interior piu alto e mi fa sempre piu sicura in quello che voglio fare! E poi, sempre incredibile da vedere come mi sono ributtata dopo un giorno parlando solamente italiano in quel mondo. Cioé il mio cervello mi sfotte! Il portugese mi sembra giá lontano!! Passeremo questi giorni qui, faremo un salto a trancoso e caraiva e poi saliamo ad itacaré dove incontriamo un’altra amica dalla giulia. Dopo chapada diamantina e poi giá ultima stazione per giulia, Salvador. Un bacio grande, carolin*

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Hello out there,

the last time in rio was very nice. Christmas, ilha grande, at new years eve my friend giulia from milan arrived – after a big chaos. First she almost got into a flight to Salvador because there was another person with the same name, then they made her going to brasilia and then, finally she arrived late, but she arrived in rio. we met with my friends at 23.45 at copacabana to see the impressive fireworks all togehter. Incredibile! After showing giulia a bit around in rio, doing delta gliding in são conrado from pedra bontia (see flickr), and the last samba goodbye night we left rio. With my friend marta and cesar we went to ouro preto, minas gerais, 8 hours north of rio. Cesar showed us his beautiful mine city in the mountains. Then we took a 20 hours ride to bahia. We are in the house of a italian friend of giulia, who moved with her husband and daughter to the paradise arrail d’ajuda, south of porto seguro. This house is so beautiful, made everything with so much love that my interior-designer heart is beating high and i’m always more secure in what i will do! … the garden with all the animals sounds, hamacs, the small blond angle and the temporary flatmate from rio-favela rocinha. and then, it’s so incredibile to see that after just one day speaking only italian i’m thrown in this other world, my brain plays tricks on my. The portugese seems so far!! Hellooo!? We will pass the next days here, making trips to trancoso and caraiva and then heading up to itacaré where we meet another friend of giulia. Hiking in chapada diamantina and then giulias last station Salvador! Take care, cheers carolina*

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hola gente, creo que para ustedes no tiene problema ler el potuges verdad? Gracias! Besitos carolina*

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Oi lindos,

o ultimo tempo no rio gostei muito. Natal, ilha grande, revellion chegou minha amiga giulia de milão – depois uma salada de avions … primeiro ela quase estava no avion para Salvador porque tive outra pessoa com o mesmo nome, depois mandaram ela para brasilia e depois menos mal chegou no rio. tarde mas chegou! nos encontramos as 23.45 em copa e a gente estava juntos com amigos para ver aquele fogo de artificio lindissmo! Incrível! damos as ultimas voltas por rio, fomos fazer asa delta de pedra bonita em são conrado (fotos no flickr), rolou a ultima noite sambinha de 4ta feira pra mim e deixamos rio. fomos pra ouro preto com minha amiga marta e cesar, o qual mostrou pra gente sua cidade linda. Agora estamos em arraial d’ajuda aonde mora uma amiga de giulia com marido e a filha. E´ uma maravilha aqui. Essa casa e tudo feito com amor! Vendo tudo esso meu coracão bate mas rapidinho e eu sei mais e mais que disegno interior e movéis e o meu!! Um jardim, redes, a angelinha loira, um rapaz de rocinha que mora um tempinho aqui, plantas e o barulho dos animais – paradiso! O meu cerebro me engana. Incrível, ja depois um dia falando exclusivamente italiano me parece muito longe o portuges. grrr! Vamos ficar ums dias aqui, passar pra trancoso e caraíva e vamos pra itacaré, chapada diamantina e a ultima estacão para giulia, Salvador. Um beijo*carolina

ilha grande

finally i was on ilha grande for three days. i passed it with julia and jan-simon (from the berlin capoeira group). julia knows the island well so she showed us some hikes to diffrent beaches.

ilha grande is just a bit south of rio so you can reach it by bus and ship in about 4 hours.

it’s a famous tourist place and everyone calls it the paradise

very interesting was Dois Rios. it’s a tiny village with an old prision which was closed in 1994.

all the houses there belong to the government. so now the houses are abandoned and are becoming beautiful and scary ruins. nowadays there is a research centre from the uerj (universidade do estado do rio de janeiro), so just people who are working there are living in Dois Rios (population: 50). there is one bus from the military police who brings the kids to the main village Abraão to school. this and a truck for collecting and stuff like that refuse are the only vehicles on the island.

it’s so diffrent there. you pass the lonely streets, some birds flying around, grass is high around the lonesome obelisk in the middle of the square. a ruin, and next to it a house with a young woman on the veranda smoking a sigarette. then the old prison also sorrounded with high grass, trash, fishbones left by the birds, 2 barkling dogs …

looking towards the sea you see this paradise beach with its sparkling turquese water …

www.ilhagrande.com.br/pages/br_historia_06.html

http://ilhagrande.org/Presidio-Ilha-Grande

where is the sun – my bamboo works

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hallo ihr eingeschneiten!

manno man. das ist ja echt krass was das klima dieses jahr wieder so treibt …! :-O ich hoffe ihr werdet wenigestens einen schönen winter haben. mit sonne anstatt schneeregen und matsch – brr!
hier regnet es sehr viel in letzter zeit und die stadt steht dann still. also nicht ganz natürlich. man mußt sich schon richtig in den hintern treten um dann was auf die reihe zu bekommen. hier “depende tudo da chuva” .. hängt dann alles vom regen ab – was man oder ob man was unternimmt oder in die schule geht …
naja, heute lässt sich die sonne mal wieder blicken und die nächste woche soll auch halbwegs besser werden. ich sollte mal wieder in die gänge kommen weil ich schon total lätschig geworden bin diese woche die tage gehts auf “ilha grande”, eine wohl paradisische insel südlich von rio.
das semester geht jetzt noch genau einen monat. wie es aussieht werde ich es mit einem projekt, wobei es um bambus geht, beenden. (werde mal gleich noch 2 bildchen im blog oder auf flickr hochladen) zu mehr hat es hier leider nicht gereicht. der satz “claro, vamos fazer …!”, ja klar, das machen wir…” wird hier einfach willkürlich ausgesprochen. nun braucht man seine zeit um zu verstehen bei wem es dann was bedeutet, wer kommt wenn er es sagt und wer es auch einhält was er sagt, also versuche ich nun zum x-ten mal noch was auf die reihe zu bekommen in der letzten zeit. man ist ja leider immer von jemandem abhängig wenn man etwas produktives machen will. so viel zur arbeit.
meine begeisterung gilt zur zeit mehr dem samba. ich werde jetzt auch ein paar pandeiro stunden nehmen. das ist einfach so toll wie hier fast jeder irgend ein instrument spielen kann. und wenn es nur triangel, das raschelnde sandei oder sonst was ist und zu der `roda de samba´ seinen beitrag leisten kann. ich hoffe dass ich meine eher gering gehaltenen musikalischen fähigkeiten, die ich vor zehn jahren ruhen lassen habe wieder etwas beleben kann und mit mehr als nur dem capoeira toque hier weggehe. neulich abends war ich bei fernando und tais, ein befreundetes päärchen, und dann wurde echt alle 2 minuten ein anderes musikinstrument(chen) aus dem nebenzimmer geholt und jemand in die hand gedrückt. das ist echt toll! und trotz dessen das schlagzeug unberührt blieb klopfte der porteiro irgendwann an die tür. also nicht immer meckern in deutschland wenn sich dann beschwert wird!

es gibt noch so ein paar sachen die noch auf der rio liste stehen, z.b. paragleiten, zuckerhut hochklettern, wenn es noch ein schönes wochenende gibt vielleicht das mit dem tauchen nochmal in angriff nehmen (beim letzten versuch ging das boot zuvor kaputt ), und dann geht es ja schon dem rioende zu. über weihnachten bis silvester reise ich vielleicht eine woche, und am 31.12. kommt giulia aus mailand hier an, mit der ich dann im neuen jahr richtung bahia ziehe …

so viel a mol, haltet die eingefrorenen öhrchen steif und und die einfahrt frei*hasta luego vom caro

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ciao gicacchiati!

mamammia, che cosa che l’inverno sta facendo lassú quest’ anno! :-O vi auguro almeno un inverno bello, con tanta sole e poca pioggia!
qui sta piovendo tanto nelle ultime settimane. la cittá poi sta ferma. cioé non tutta pero e tutto un po lento poi, bisogna darsi un golpe nel culo per farcela di fare delle cose. qui poi dipende tutto dalla pioggia – cosa si fa o se si fa qc. o se si va a scuola …
beh, oggi almeno è uscito il sole e anche la settimana prossima deve migliorare. devo proprio muovermi perché questa settimana sono diventata troppo pigra. questi giorni andró a ilha grande quale si trova un po al sud di rio.
il semestre dura ancora un mese. sembra che usciró con un projetto che tratta di bambú (dopo carico delle foto sul blog o sul flickr). purtroppo non c’è l’ho fatto di fare piú cose. la frase “claro, vamos fazer …!” è usato troppo qui. ci vuole un tempo per conoscere cosa significa quando qualcuno dice una cosa o chi anche fa che dice.
allora mo proveró altra volta a farcela di lavorare un po in questo ultimo mese. ma purtroppo sempre si dipende da qualcuno.

cosa mi spinge di piú in questo periodo è la samba. voglio frequentare anche alcuni lezioni di pandeiro. è bellissimo come quasi tutti qui sanno tocare un istrumento. anche se è solo il triangolo, il uovo con sabbia o qualsiasi cosa che fa parta dalla `roda di samba´. spero di ritrovare alcuni piccolissimi talenti che ho lasciato andare diec´anni fa e tornare a casa con piú che del toque del capoeira.
l’altra sera in casa di fernando e tais hanno tirato fuori veramente ogni due minuti un’ altro instrumento dalla stanza accanto e fatti girare a tutti. è belissimo
ci sono ancora delle cose che voglio fare qui, come p.e. paragliting, subire a piedi il pao de azucar, e se c’è ancora un bel fine settimana ancora provare ad andare a fare subaqueo (l’ ultima volta si è rotto il barco poco prima ) e poi giá sta terminando il periodo qui … tra natale e capodanno vorrei viaggare un po e poi il 31.12. arriva giulia di milano e si viaggia verso bahia per i primi giorni del anno nuovo.

state mi bene!
un bacio*carolina la bambina

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hello world,

what’s up there? in the most parts out there is deep winter :-O i hope you will pass it well!
here it is raining since a while, what really sucks because the city stands still then. well it moves though, but slowly … and i have to me in the ass that i do something because “all depends on the rain” here what you do, or if you do something. or if cou go to school. so its possible to get lazy fast – what i did this week. and it doesn’t feel well so today it was finally a sunny day and i am in a good mood to do things tomorrow. this week should get better so finally we’ll make it to go to `ilha grande´, which is a bit south of rio.
the semester is one more month. it seems like i will finish it with just one project, which will be about bambus (will upload somepics on the blog or flickr). more i didn’t make. the sentence “claro, vamos fazer”, “yes, we do that” is used too much here, so you need a time to figure out who makes what he says or what does it mean when who says it – or you never figure out. so its hard to work productively. i try it now again for the last time to get things done, the problem is that you are depending always on somebody … and that takes time …
my enthusiasm in these period applies to the samba. i’ll take some pandeiro lessons. that’s so cool here that almost everybody is able to play an instrument. and if it’s just trianlge, or the sandy egg or just anything that makes part of the `roda de samba´. i hope i can wake up my small musical talents i’ve let gone ten years ago and turn back to germany with more than the capoeira toque. one of these evenings i was at fernandos and tais´ home and every two minutes they took out another intrument of that litte room and pushed it in someones hand. that’s so nice!
there are some things left on the to do list here like paragliding, climbing up the sugarloaf and if there will be another nice weekend try again to go diving (last time the boat broke some hours before ), and then the end of the rio time will come soon. christmas till new years eve i might travel. then at the 31.12. giulia from milan is arriving and we will heading north … bahia …

take care,
cheers*carolina

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hooola amix,

eieiei, que etsá pasando por allí .. españa com menos grados .. br.
aqui tambien el tempo no está muy bien. está lluviendo mucho. y esta ciudad está parada púes es dificil hacer algo porque las ganas estan en bajo … todo “depende da la lluvia”, que si hace, si se hace algo, si se va en la escuala … bien, ahora va megliorar y esta semana quiero ir en ilha grande, que está un pocho sud de rio.
el semestre dura un mes más. parece que vou salir con un proyecto que fala de bambú (vou cargar fotos en el blog o flickr) una pena que no salió más, pero no lo hize. la frase “claro, vamos fazer …!” si usa aqui en todo momento y se tiene que entender quien hace tambien que habla y quien quiere decir que con esto …
entonces voy a probar para ultima vez ahora trabajar por este ultimo tiempo. peró el problema es que si depende siempre de algiuen …
mio amor en este periodo es dedicado al samba. vou tambien tomar unas clases de pandeiro. es belisimo como aqui casi todos saben tocar un istrumento. tambien si es solamente algo pequeño.
despúes de unas cosas que todavia quero hacer aqui ya va terminar este periodo aqui. creo que navidad hasta año nuevo voy a viajar un pochito y voy voltar por aqui porque giulia desde milan va llegar el 31.12. e vamos vianjando hacía el norte a bahia ….

cuidense!
un beso grande*carolina

Latinamerica travels

Parati – Baia di Mamaguá

oí!

die neuen fotos sind vom wochenende, wo ich mit alice (sie war letztes jahr in potsdam) und freunden von ihr 3 tage in einem einsamen haus in der buch von mamanguá in der nähe von parati war. (ca. 4 sdt südlich von rio)

dann haben wir noch einen tag im haus von alice’s vater bei angra verbracht, mit dem wir dann noch ne runde segeln waren. fotos kommen heute.

um euch mal insgesamt eine orientierung zu geben habe ich ein paar karten vorbereitet.

tschüssle*küssle

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the new fotos are from the weekend, where i was with alice (she was in my school last year) and friends of her in a lonely house in the bay of mamanguá closed to parati. (about 4 h south of rio)

then we passed also a day in her father’s house on the sea closed to angra, where we went sailing the afternoon. these photos will be uploaded tomorrow.

i prepared some maps to give you an oriantation. bye*