Tudo bem?
Oie, a quick update from Vila Velha. God I'm loving this place... So far I have been fed like a God, big lucious lunches, drinking coco gelado (cold coconut water, served in the coconut with a straw) and my new favourite Guarana, a soft drink made from real guarana from the amazon.
Click the photo for a slideshow of the first few days, then click on individual photo's for a brief description.
So far I am meeting lots of people through the church and school; I better explain. Uziel is a pastor who work for the ministry in boston but was sent to Brasil as a missionary. He and Daiane are both originally from Brasil, the southern part but moved to Boston 5 orso years ago. Here Uziel was a truck driver, and eventually stopped driving himself and he owned three large trucks, doing deliveries from coast to coast. It was always Uziel's intention to become a pastor, his father is a pastor too, and so he gave up his trucking business and was sent out by the ministerío de boston to Vitória. He and Daiane therefore moved here 1 year and 2 months ago, (they got married in Boston). Here in Vila Velha, Uziel set up an evangelical church, in an old warehouse. The other half serves as a school where they run several classes; such as english, spanish, electricity, computer management etc. Funds are very limited and Uziel has built everything himself. Just using office panels to block-off little classrooms, and many things like the chairs are donations. I was pretty impressed when I was first shown it, and there is an overwhelming sense of 'doing good for others' with the little they have here. They teach English and several computer classes for various programmes, on computers that are more than just old.
Anyway, it's great to be close to the school because there are constantly people coming and going, and they are all very interested in me, and it's good for my portuguese. Just about everyone has invited me to come eat at their place, and everytime it eat new things and do new things. The other night I had a type of soup made from mandioca and it had the following in it: frango (chicken), queijo (cheese), milho (corn). Taste good doc. Then we played dominoes for a good two hours me and Uziel against our host and his son. You'll see it in the slideshow.
Tchau for now!
Click the photo for a slideshow of the first few days, then click on individual photo's for a brief description.
So far I am meeting lots of people through the church and school; I better explain. Uziel is a pastor who work for the ministry in boston but was sent to Brasil as a missionary. He and Daiane are both originally from Brasil, the southern part but moved to Boston 5 orso years ago. Here Uziel was a truck driver, and eventually stopped driving himself and he owned three large trucks, doing deliveries from coast to coast. It was always Uziel's intention to become a pastor, his father is a pastor too, and so he gave up his trucking business and was sent out by the ministerío de boston to Vitória. He and Daiane therefore moved here 1 year and 2 months ago, (they got married in Boston). Here in Vila Velha, Uziel set up an evangelical church, in an old warehouse. The other half serves as a school where they run several classes; such as english, spanish, electricity, computer management etc. Funds are very limited and Uziel has built everything himself. Just using office panels to block-off little classrooms, and many things like the chairs are donations. I was pretty impressed when I was first shown it, and there is an overwhelming sense of 'doing good for others' with the little they have here. They teach English and several computer classes for various programmes, on computers that are more than just old.
Anyway, it's great to be close to the school because there are constantly people coming and going, and they are all very interested in me, and it's good for my portuguese. Just about everyone has invited me to come eat at their place, and everytime it eat new things and do new things. The other night I had a type of soup made from mandioca and it had the following in it: frango (chicken), queijo (cheese), milho (corn). Taste good doc. Then we played dominoes for a good two hours me and Uziel against our host and his son. You'll see it in the slideshow.
Tchau for now!
