we're on the road again

ola pessoas bonitos!
tis i Ashai =D
well we have now managed to pull ourselves out of the strong clutches of Capao and Capinas,it was hard! right now we're in Lencois,but are getting a coach back to Salvador this evening to say hello to the lovely Nega Maluca family again.we'll only be there for one night though then back to Arembepe!!! yaaaay =D

Capinas was lovely lovely,it felt like we could have easily been there much longer.there's so much to learn.the poeple there were all brilliant,and helped us so much with speaking,especially the kids,and also the Brazilian Steve(im not quite sure which steve,but he remeinded us of lots of them....mostly steve jones who used to be with Dawn,sunni and rubi..)he lent us a huge english portuguese dictionary and a learn Portuguese in ten mins a day book,which was so helpful.

a day in Capinas....well we got up at around 7-7.30am,i had a lovely stretch and bounce around outside our little chalet every morning,then we head to the cozinha communidade(communal kitchen) for breakfast.all the meals are written on a rota and you put your name down next to one if you want to do the cooking,and when its all ready a konch or horn is blown.breakfast would be something like cooked plantain,cooked potatos,cuscus,or this sweet custardy stuff made from banana and..something! after breakfast(cafe da manha) we would then have our trabalha(work) which mostly,for us,was working with the herbs;either in the garden or in the casa do urvas.heheh we spent a whoçe morning working with Salvia,stripping it down and drying it!took us a while to realise what we were actually doing.

trabalha was only done in the morning as it got too hot to work much in the afternoon,so after lunch(normally something vegetably with rice) our time was ours. we spent a lot of our after noon time with the girlies,swimming and making stuff. we had a particularly briliant afternoon with our fantastic friend Awka and the younger of the girls,Sarah,down by the rio.we all went for a swim in the nu,and then det off to find a sunny rock to dry off on.there we found these bits of old pottery that went like paint when you rubbed them with water,so spent the next half an hour drawing patterns all over eachother and then got dragged off by Sarah to play hopscotch,where every one parked their cars no less! so there we all four were,playing hopscotch in the carpark,naked and all painted like indians =D we only got caught by a couple of people..heheh!

on our last night in Capinas me and beautiful nut meg cooked the dinner,and had great fun doing it! we made the Now soup(or a variation of),bread with herbs and sesame,a massive pot of Chai and bananas baked with chocolate =D tws lovely indeed,and very popular.

it was very sad leaving Capinas and Capao last night,but we got to say good bye to most of our friends(didnt find Ran though) and also found a few who are also headong to Arembepe,which is exciting,as we now have a new crazy,rasta-ery posi for that funny little hippy village=D

much love to you all,thinking of you ALL loads
xxxxxx