First days in Fortaleza

I´m sitting in a small internet café near my hostel waiting until the rain stops. Of course I forgot to bring the unbrella like an idiot since it has been mostly raining since I came here. There have been some sunny moments however and sunday was absolutely wonderful. I went to this very nice beach with the woman who owns the hostel I´m staying at with her friend with her baby and brother. Drinking beer, eating crabs and drinking coconut water was amazing. I swam in the warm sea and had a fantastic time. On saturday I went out with the woman, her name is Caritas, and her friend. I tasted a rather funky drink, beer and red wine mixed together and then loads of caipirinhas which were to my surprise cheaper than beer. We went to this one night club where I met another friend of hers who is an english techer in a University and asked me to come to his class on tuesday and talk to the students. So yesterday he picked me up and I went with him to class and was a "teacher" for one hour. It was totally awesome. The guy said I am a natural born teacher haha. In between all this I´ve been walking around trying to get by with my limited portugese and everything takes 10 times longer when you cannot talk with the people. For exaple, trying to get a simple phone card to call europe took me 3 days until finally I ran into this friendly guy in the supermarket who luckily for me had lived in New Zealand for a while and he took me all over the place to get me this silly car which worked out in the end and I could finally call Luis. He is coming tonight and I can´t wait!
It has really been so fun to be here and most of the people I meet are very kind and friendly, offering me things and asking nothing in return. But I suppose it´s not going to be the same everywhere. This is a big country andFortaleza is actually small city compared to other ones, even though it has around 2,5 million inhabitants.
This has been a great start and I have all the rest of the continent to explore!

Finally there - BRAZIL

Well well, lovely people. I´m here at last in S-America. I arrived to Fortaleza last night, without any clue what to expect. And to make it a little bit more exciting I didn´t book a place to sleep and didn´t have any info on the city since I had to leave my lovely south america guide book in Germany when I had my flight to Portugal. It was too heavy to take with me. So I landed and was a bit freaked out to see all those people with medical masks and big posters about the pig flu. But understandable that they do it on the airport, because I haven´t seen anybody wearing that in the city. So I got through and found this tourist info spot and tried to ask for a hostel. The woman didn´t speak a word of english of course so I tried my limited portugese which I had gotten from staying in Portugal for almost 3 weeks. The woman wasn´t very helpful but this random guy who supposedly works in the airport booked a place for me and showed me the taxi. I arrived at the hotel and was totally dead. Today it has been raining like crazy and I´ve been around a bit getting soaking wet. I checked out another hostel that belongs to a woman I found on Couchsurfing and she invited me to lunch and to meet her friends. So later I will meet up with them but in the mean time I´ll recover from my icecold shower, yeah yeah welcome to Brazil.

I have to say, although I only intended to stay in portugal for a few days and ended up staying there for almost 3 weeks I most certanly do not regret it. I had a great time and had the chance to learn a bit of portugese, I swear my portugese is probably better than my dutch. But Luis is still finishing some stuff over there and he will join me next week.

So this is the start and I will tell you all about my ways around this continent.

We'll be coming! We'll be coming! We'll be coming too Braziil!!

Nuna er timi minn i Amsterdam loksins lidinn undir lok. Eg er buin ad pakka aleigunni ofan i hlussu bakpokann og er tilbuin ad labba af stad. Buin ad skila lyklunum af ibudinni, haett i vinnunni og buin ad kvedja flesta. I kvold er seinasta kvoldid mitt her i thessari frabaeru borg. A morgun rulla eg af stad til Thyskalands med vinkonu minni thar sem vid munum hanga i heimabae hennar fram a sunnudag thegar eg flyg til portugal til ad joina vin minn sem mun fljuga med mer til Brazeliu.
Nu byrjar aevintyrid loksins aftur eftir dagoda bid. Eg er buin ad vera i amsterdam nuna 9 manudi og lidur sma eins og thegar eg kom heim fra Kanada. Ad thvi leyti ad eg hef myndad mer nytt lif i nyju landi og mun nuna yfirgefa thad. Fara i burtu fra ollu og ollum sem eg er farin ad thykja ohemju vaent um. En allt gott tekur enda og eg hef nad ad kveda thessa borg med stael thegar eg thrammadi ut um allar jardir i allan gaerdag og kvold fagnandi Queens day, thjodhatidar degi hollendinga. A thessum degi er borgin oll morandi i trylltum fullum appelsinugulklaeddum rugludollum sem er drullu sama um allt. Folk gerir hluti sem vanalega myndu ekki gerast. Sama med mig. Sennilega var thetta einn besti dagur i mjog langan tima. Eg a eftir ad sakna Amsterdam alveg gifurlega en nun er komid ad sudur ameriku ad njota kolbilada islendingsins sem laetur ekkert stoppa sig.

We'll be coming, we'll be coming, we'll be comiiing down the road!!