March 2, 2011
Walked the
three blocks to work this morning and saw some green PARROTS flying about in
the trees overhead. This is a tropical place and it must be the rainy season
now, for it has rained ever since I arrived. My new umbrella is nice and big
but…it takes a lot of practice to manoeuvre the crowded sidewalk with a wide
umbrella. I think it is a learned skill, I didn’t acquire yet. A group of us
from the office went to lunch at a buffet restaurant. Yum, so many good and different
things there, I love the food here. Tonight I ate at the hotel restaurant,
language barriers is annoying sometimes. I ordered what I thought the waiter understood
was bread to go with the soup I ordered. Got a big plate of cheese, just what I
want to avoid. Oh well soup was good but enough for 3 people.
The
restaurant isn’t very busy so later on I went back and sat down there to surf the
web. My room has terrible internet wireless. I got a conference call from Susan and her
sister Louise. Three way call but costs nothing. Great to talk to them and my
buddy Frank at the bar didn’t mind one bit.
Marble is everywhere,
where we use wood they use marble. My table top in my room is marble, the window
sills, the door trim, all counter tops, floor tiles, you name it its marble.
The climate her is certainly a lot less humid than in Macae, (my clothes
actually are dry). It is also not as hot, the temperature is just right, my
feet still aren’t cold.
I get the
weekend off and also all the carnival time off. I’m on vacation till Wednesday
or Thursday. Then I go to visit a school near Sao Paulo. Now my schedule is
changed again, I get to go home the 12th as originally planned, we
finished everything here fast.
