Esta doente!

Foz and his hareem of very young ladies!

Us boys in the burger bar getting our photo taken for their wall of fame. They think we play pro football for Americano. Lost in translation!

On friday, the whole base went to a church in a town just outside of Rio somewhere, about 45 mins away. The brasileiros, and i think ywamers in general love over-officiating everything, so the weekend was sold as a 'conference'. We got there late friday night to discover that our beds were non-existent, and that we had a choice - tiles or chairs. We went for chairs.
Some random brazilian guy decided to keep us awake by playing mission impossible on his mobile phone. thanks for that mate. Got up at like 6.30 and had a cold shower on the saturday, and waited around a little before goin to a 'meeting' and then went to some school round the corner to entertain some kids (well, that was our purpose anyways). The school system is very much less formal than in england. There must have been about 20 of us and we were able to waltz in to a school and invade their assembly and P.E. lesson which was cool. Played some overly competitve football before headin back for lunch. We weren't able to leave the football before we had given our e-mail addresses to everyone there, so theres gonna be a lot of denials going on next time I log on to msn!!! Went back to the church for a quick bite before repeating the exercise again in the afternoon at the same school with different kids.
The rest of the 'conference' was spent eating more of those x tudo burgers that kevo posted about, absolutely canny. And meeting loads of Brazilians. On Sunday night we were swamped by kids with all three of us receiving more attention than we´ve had all year. It seems easier to communicate with the kids as there on similar wave lengths as ourselves! Good weekend overall.
The bus ride back home was quality. The brasilians love their music and dancing so we were riding the bus with half the people standin up in the aisle dancing while a couple of people in the back banged (not sure what the past tense is for bang, bung would be too much of a pun in this corrupt country!!) on drums. Pretty quality, although not if you wanted to get some sleep at midnight!