27th of March Update

Hi everyone. I have had a great week since my last update and am now currently sitting in a internet cafe off the main road in aldeia, only a walks distance away from where we are staying.

The day after my last update we went to the local presbyterian church in aldeia. There is no formal service in the morning and therefore the service was at 6pm. When we got there we were very well welcomed and the service was very lively and great fun. Whilst we there, a 19 year old boy was standing next to the pastor and translating his words to english when he required it. We were introduced to the church by the pastor. As soon as the service was over we met the 19 year old boy called Daniel and we were soon invited to the chinese resturant that his father owned. In there amazing generousity they paid for our meal, which is a great reflection of the generous culture of Brazil. We had great food and conversation and the other boys had a long talk abut football. Due to the obvious interest in football that the other boys in our team had, we were asked to play football on the friday with the church which was a great oppportunity to meet new people and build relationships, and also improve my football playing.

We started work again on monday, the girls continuing the clearing and the boys digging trenches for a small wall. After 4 days of work at the house, we were asked to help a couple of latin link long term striders to paint a clear out a building they planned to use for childrens work. this was a nice break from our usual surrounds because it was near the large city of Recife, and it was great for more team bonding. As soon as we got off the bus on our way back to Aldeia, me and the other boys went off to play in the football match with people our age from the church. There were may teams of six and we played with Daniel, the english speaking boy from church. it was great to play a different way than in England, with such things as no slide tackles and all the brazilians would pass alot more than we did. Today we had a well needed lie in and im am now looking forward to my time ahead in brazil. We hope to play football agian today.

Thank you for reading



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