Porto Alegre (transfer to uruguay)

Really sloppy..........!!!

day 34 -36: 27 -29 november 2008


Really stupid of me to lost my creditcard.. escpecially because mastercard is the best way to pay in Argentina. now i need to look for ATM that accept maestro. here in brasil both mastercard and maestro is widely accepted, so not much to worry about. I lost it because of my own stupidity.. put the card somewhere in my bag and couldnt found it anymore.. i guessed it fell off and hid somewhere. turned the bag inside out and upside down but nothing. and i just realized at the day i go to Porto alegre. nothing to whined about it anymore, cancelled the card and wait for new one. but i still have alot of american dollars as back - up so i´m good right now.

Another experience to add in the list of reminders. just need to be more careful now.
besides all of the missery I also have some good experience to share. I was waiting in the bus terminal for my bus to porto alegre. and when next to me was a girl carrying a rucksack. always curious for the story of other travellers. just asked her where she was going. turned out that she lived here in brasil for 2 years. she was from origin Spaniard from valencia but lives in france (really complicated). although she speaks english, we have talked with mix of spanish and portuguese.. talked about my experience of travelling here in Brasil mostly (i turned out to be a chatter hehe), so self - centered of me. really nice to be able to talked with some strangers. although i´m always careful with the one i want to talk to. After when i was boarding in to the bus got caught up in a conversation with a girl from new-Zealand. She also wanted to go to uruguay and travelling for in total 3 months and have seen Peru, bolivia, chile and argentina.

when we arrived in porto alegre. i went directly to buy ticket to uruguay. she also but she departed directly in the same day at 20.00 (28 november). In the terminal of Porto Alegre there were alot of people carrying rucksacks. and so we met another travellers. one Englishman and the other one was Irish (but lived in States for 13 years now). four of us decided to take a quick look of the city of Porto Alegre. but we ended up in a small cafe and had some beers till 15.00. a local postman was really kind to bought us the beer, if the postman didn´t paid for the beers it was a alcohol free day. after that we went to look for a internet cafe. but we got splitted up and we lost the new zealand girl. because the internet was expensive we decided to visit the cathedrale metropolitana. Really beautiful structure. Asked for some redemption and we went back to the praça to get more beers, bad wine and good caipirinha (it´s my last day here in Brasil). I think you all know how the british people appreciate alcohol ;). we need to run back to the bus terminal because the Englishman needed to get his bus on time. and again i lost something.. it was luckily my copy of passport. i plastificated it so, kinda worried but not that much actually. better lost a copy than the real one. Another amazing day here in brasil..

the city of porto alegre

Porto alegre is a mix of old colonial buildings and modern skycrappers. thats all actually. sorry i didn´t saw too much of the city, i saw alot of shopping malls and markets at the streets. otherwise i spent actually one day wasted (if you know what i mean) here in porto alegre. but gain alot of knowledge of NGO and UN woks so every day is another day fill with new people and another perspectives of the life in general. taking baby steps and sometimes leap forward to become a better person. hey i´m almost a year older didn´t i.

obrigado Brasil, Hola Uruguay

abrazo

Ch