Bando de louco!

Yesterday, I got to hear the sound and smell the sweat of 31 000 Brazilians jumping up and down cheering for my favorite football team; Corinthians. I got to see the tattos all over the backs of the faithful fans and learn a lot of "beutifull" words that I haven't learned from my Christian friends in ABUB. We stood behind the goal where all the screaming fans are, with their HOUGE flags that covers the whole crowd!! It was LEGEN.. wait for it..... DARY!



The beatifull enterence


Under the HOUGE poster! It was like a tunnel.

Also under the HOUGE poster!


The sight from our place


The football field obviously.

No place like "home"!

I have almost been travelling since 22th of december now. I've seen, learned and done a lot of things and gotten many friends from all over Brazil, that I most likely won't see again. It's both fun and sad on the same time. You really invest your time and energy in getting to know people for only a short period of time. Sharing stories, laughing and become friends for than to leave again. It was especially hard after a camp that lasted for 20 days and we all lived, ate, played and prayed together. Leaving was just a taste of how it will be, leaving Brazil 12th of april. But still, I wouldn't be without any of the people I've invested my time and energy in!

Goood friends from the three weeks camp!


Friends from a camp with my church


My host-family for three days! Peace

I've learned so much! Especially about my self, the amazing Brazilian hospitality, their love and interest for foreigners and the art of smalltalk! I've stayed in a lot of different houses, families and really been invited into their lives. I've gotten to know them, become friends with them, for so having to leave for a new place, with new people. Julianne and I started to get tired of the normal smalltalk and desided to make the best of it. To really use the art of smalltalk. We started to make up things about Norway to spice up the boring conversations and then faster getting to know people. The funny part was actually to see how much people believe.

Some of the things Brazilians believe:
- That we have polar bears in our garden.
- Norther'n light is like every night.
- We only take showers once a week because all the water i frozen and we have to melt the water before we use it.
- We don't have facebook, because we don't have internet in Norway.

But I also learned how much I love having time to really getting to know people. Having close friends and not only travelling around talking to different people every day. Having good friends and family to come back to. I spent one whole month away from Campinas and I really missed the place and people that I've become so found of. So now I'm just going to enjoy my last month here and my thoughts when I sit on the plain to Norway will be that I did everything I wanted and more.


My lovely Brazilian host-family, that's totally spoiling me.!


My dear friends in Campinas


Also my dear friends in Campinas watching to football games at the same time.


Left: Pedro (Steinar in Norwegian) my "dad" that always helps the lost Norwegian girls. Right: Me....


Me and my Brazilian sister, Raphaela, when I went skydiving.




The sticks are a sign of us playing snooker...


Normal day at Casa Douglas, playing Troco!
"Brazilians are niiiice"

Brazilian food

If you don't recognize me when I come back to Norway, it's because of the amazing food here! A mom that is spoiling me and serving me food all day long, the cheap resturants, and all the sugar and fat that Brazilians use to make their lovely tamptations. It have to be the best food in the world and it actually diserves a whole post! The Brazilians even make the Hot-Dog's taste like gourmet. The Hot-Dog's goes from this:


To this:



And for not to talk about the BBQ (Churrasco). If you ever travel to Brazil, you have to experience the Churrasco. You can eat as much meat as you want, and they have all types. Nobody eats anything else than meat, even though they have a whole buffet of other things.

And the sweets! My "mom" makes a cake every weekend, so I eat cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Their most used ingredience is condensed milk, they use it in everything. It's their secret ingredience that makes all sweets delicius. And I have found out that they sell it on the immigrant stores in norway! Yey!

Their pizza is also the best. I don't understand why everyone talks about the Italian pizza, when it exists Brazilian pizza! Ice-cream pizza, chocolate pizza, pizza churrasco etc..

But they all live on rice and beans in the daily life. Like my friend's mom says "you need rice and beans at least once a day!