I cannot decide if I like the people or the food in Brasil better...

...I think I only give up my love for food here because I had one lunch today that was just okay. I have a feeling that tomorrow I will go on continuing to love the food here!! But seriously, I cannot get over how amazing the people here are. For example, last night we were going home from hanging out with a bunch of @ers. Because it was dark we all piled in Philipao's car (yea not easy for 6 people to fit in a small Brazilian car. We were headed home (me, Japa (I think that is his nicname is short for Japanese... but that is just a theory) and Guilherme) when Philipao decided that we had to go to Praca de Papa (Pope Park). This is a park with the most beautiful view of the city for when the pope comes to BH (said Bay-Ahgah). He decided that we had to go tonight, because I will probably go again, but just in case, it was not right for me to not get to see this view. It is true. Doing something like that always gets put off because it is so easy to go, but then you never do and you really miss out. ANYWAYS, so we went to Pope Park. My word. It was brilliantly amazing. I love looking at the city from the hills as it is. Andre (Colombian who I work with) makes fun of me as it is because I gasp at how pretty BH is every time we pass this one spot in the favela where you can see the city. The view last night put it all to shame. It was so incredibly beautiful to look out and see so many twinkling lights spanning out over these huge mountains. The sight of it could inspire poetry from me.. and we all know I do not do poetry. I cannot say enough times how beautiful it was! BH is a really large city, but I stay in one little area most of my time and the only time I leave is go to work and that is just spacing out on a bus for an hour. From so high up, you could really see how enormous the city really is. I felt like such a small dot on the globe. If one city could be so big, what am I in the big scheme of things...? We wont go there for now though...

Last night was amazing, nights like that when I cannot get my camera to work to capture the beauty, it is when I really really hope I never lose that memory for the rest of my life. I cannot decide what I liked more though, the view, or the 3 @ friends all working to show me the city, to get my camera working, to keep me from getting frostbite, etc... Yea, I love Brasil!

Oh! Speaking of awesome @ friends... I almost forgot my afternoon! Sunday afternoon me, G (my host who will be G from now on because his name is too long and takes too much thought to spell right), V (trainee from Finland), Victor (Romania), and Jin (China) and I all went and played around the city some. We went and walked around the big park here for a bit. It was really pretty... a bit trashy but nice. It reminded me a bit of the lake at peidmont park but trashy. Like the water was nasty and you held your purse close, etc. Oh! funny: there were amusement rides in the park too! It still struck me as very interesting because in its basic structure, it is like an american park, but when you look closely, it is tropical and wonderful!

Okay I will return to blogging in a moment after yelling at facebook for a few moments. Thank you for your time.