My Travels: Belo Horizonte - Visiting the lovely Julia

Sooooo. After my week in Balneario Cambriou, i got a lift with Gustavo's friends back to Curitiba about 2 hours by car. Then from there, Gustavo and I went back to his grandparents apartment where he lives. They have the top 2 floors of a apartment block, and the views of Curitiba were amazing.

Later that night, just before the mid of night, i boarded the bus to Belo Horizonte.

Maybe 7 hours later i arrived. And Julia picked me up. Julia was for the past year on exchange with the Rotary Club of Chirnside Park in Australia. She also went to Mt Lilydale.

I'm sorry, it really frustrates me why some photos won't rotate, but you can tilt your head, right?

This photo is taken at a fresh produce market similar to the one i visited in Sao Paulo. Except this one had many stores selling protein shakes, and a pet animal section where all the birds looked diseased and the cats and dogs and any other sad looking animals were the kind of animals you wish you could buy all of them, just to save them from the horrific place, but theres not enough time to consider this because the isle smells so bad, that you just wanna leave.

with friends

Even before brazil, I knew these shots were so typical. The kind of Photo where everyone gathers in. Making it sometimes impossible to get a photo of just 3 people.

but here we did - this is Maria, she was also in Germany at one point on exchange. So we spoke German together, she also hosted one of the Aussies from 9810.

This was a private party that we went to, was out on a farm. You payed 30 Reals and an organised bus picked everyone up in the city, and we drove about 1 hour to the farm. Then it took everyone home. the music was 60's, 70's, and 80's themed, oh and alcohol included. And was much fun. Also i met many people who went to Australia on Exchange. Doing Exchange here is very common, when applying for Jobs or Uni, they look whether you have had international experiences.

On the Sunday, we went for lunch with the Family, and their friends. The restaurant was at an equestrian farm , there was no one riding this day, but there was horses there. This soup is typical Brazilian, made from beans, very salty and very delicious.

This little boy was so adorable, trying to feed the horse.

many

different

and

beautiful

coloured

Flowers

made me think of

Granny

We were meant to go for a walk in the National Park area, but it was monday, and mondays are the only days its shut.

so we went nearby and drank coconut water, and looked out onto the view of Belo

The man cut them open

that

we could eat the insides,

with a spoons made from the coco itself

carried the remains back to..

the people we got them from.. and payed

Then we walked back into town

This is the hill that was behind us when we sat.

We walked and got acai - which has a accent on the c but i don't know how to do that on this keyboard - is a typical brazilian fruit, this is a common thing to eat, its very sweet, refreshing and delicious.

Julia showed me where she attended High School and most of primary. A beautiful old building, right amongst all the other buildings and roads, but feels so far away from everything, with a layout like this.

This is Marista Village (Marista is the name of the school)

The village is the first 3 years in Primary school. And what it is, is a mini Village. Each classroom represents a different building found within each town, things like the post office, town hall, bank, library, police station anything found within your typical town, even a farm. It was the coolest thing, like a fairytale. a kids dream