Hildegunn: No place like "home"!

lørdag 17. mars 2012

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.