Week N°3

Well, well how time has flown.....already my last week in Rio and wishing I had more time. I just looked at my itinerary and realized my flight back to Geneva will be leaving on Thursday 15th and back in Geneva on the Friday.....merda and all this time I thought I was leaving on Friday....:o(

As I mentioned before about taking matters into my own hands...today I went by myself to the paint shop and and managed to buy all the paint and painting materials I need....it was quite a funny experience as the guys in the shop could see I was struggling a bit with the language, so I had to use a lot of actions with my hands....they were having a great laugh and me too.....I'm telling you cannot beat the Brazilians for service, the guys in the shop were so helpful...at one stage the was no fixer or white paint left and the guy kindly called up another shop in the vicinity, et voila, two minutes later a guy comes in from the other shop with fixer and paint in hand, all for me....I was well impressed and ever so grateful :o) with a 'muito obrigada' and off I went with all my paint...

So the project for the kids will happen afterall but unfortunately my time is limited....as I leave on Thursday.....so I will put in some overtime over the next three days, but I have also made the other volunteers promise me that they will finish the work I started when I'm gone....

Well I say I have three days left for the painting project, well, its actually only two, because Wednesday is a goodbye treat for the kids, the volunteers will take the children to the beach for the day, I look foward to that myself. I will have to do a shop to buy food for a picnic too.....I will tell them all tomorrow where they will go, they will be over the moon...;O)

Today was another delousing session, one of the girls who had been denying she had lice, well we dicovered today that her hair was infested, and the worse thing is she has the most beautiful long and naturally curly hair....we've used vinegar, special shampoos on her, but in vain.....I think the buggers are immune to everything....grrrr:<