Maids

Cleaned up some areas and hung up some Carnaval decorations Katia had from a previous year. At the end of the Carnaval, the participants take off all of their amazing glittery gear and form a massive pile. Whoever gets there first can have their pick. Usually the poor people are there, and sell pieces for $10R.

She is a ceramics artist, and spent over 7 years in Boston and Alabama attaining her Masters. Now she's a mom to 4 year old Katerina and Gabriela helps look after this massive house on the hill - more than 5 bedrooms, swimming pool, ceramics studio, patio and lots of beautiful exotic trees. The Jabuticaba - with fruits growing right off the trunk - eluded me for 6 months and found it. Mom had seen one in a picture and asked me to find it. I do what my mother wants. Always.

We go to a couch surfing event tonight and katia thinks I would do well to drive up on the motorbike. She thinks it's quite an accomplishment, and the ambassador appreciates motorbikes, so could be an ice breaker. Still very tired, but better. The normal waking up 3 or 5 times or more in the night checking my money belt and wondering whether the bike has been stolen. Naps are a must.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Mark Twain