timetable

sry guys, I don't know why things are being posted twice all the time... But these computers are really slow so I don't wanna wast time deleting them...
My Mum asked for a more chronological overview of my travells:
-1week Connectivity Sao Paulo (15.-22. July 2006)
-2weeks Workcamp Sao Paulo (we built a huge playground for a nearby favela), we stayed in hostfamilies
-I spent some time with a friend of my hostparents' in the mountains in a place called Cuna -a 3 hours-drive from Sao Paulo
-I met Ivan(German), Gawan(German) and Bruno(Brazilian) in a quite touristic fishing-village called Parati; we spent some great time in a place called Trindade (stunning beaches+great rainforest), too. Bruno had to go back to Sao Paulo
-we spent one night in a completly unknown place (a tiny fishing village no tourist has ever set a foot in ) camping on the beach (it was pretty scary!!!!). At six in the morning we were taken out by this really nice fisher-men and the whole advanture turned out to be GREAT!!!!! We stayed on the water until 2pm, caught something like 15kilos of shrimps, we were cooked for and had a lot of fun bathing in the middle of the Atlantic.
-Just in time we got to Angra dos Reis to take the ferry to Ilha Grande. A fantastic island with a lot of rainforest. We went on some quite exhausting hike and were compensated with a fantastic view! The next day the two guys went scooba-diving and I went on another very exhausting hike passing some very beautiful beaches (palm-trees all over, white sand, blue water etc) and finally got to what they call the nicest beach of Brazil: Lopes Mendes!
-After two nights we left Ilha Grande for Rio Dejanero! A great city!!!!! Uncountable kilometers of white beaches. Palm-trees, nice people, huge buildings, fun night-life! The three of us stayed with Ivan's aunt. We went horse-riding (I got a terrible slow horse :( ) and did loads of stuff. Gotta speed up, sry!
-by bus we went to Campo Grande (22h, this is where my throut started hurting...); we spent 2nights in Campo Grande (we were 6people now: Andrea and Iduna two girls I had made friends with during the Connectivity-Conference and Ron(23, Israeli) I met at the bus terminal in Rio)
-we went on a trip to the Pantanal (3nights, several Safaris, horse riding -it was a dream!!!!, piranha-fishing!!!! fun nights sitting around the fire, playing cards...)
-by Ivan, Ron and me got to Corumba. I went to the hospital for the first time (my arm and my hand had started hurting like hell in the pantanal)
-by train we got to Santa Cruz (we met some more people) this is in the middle of Bolivia already, 2. time hospital
-by bus Ivan, Christian(20, German, Connectivity) and me got to Samaipata, a place in the mountains, 3.time hospital
Im taking uncountable tablets, I got so many shots I'm not able to count them any more. I really hope it will all be over soon!!!!
our plan is to
-to take the bus to Sucre tonight.
-to visit Potosi after (4ooom)
-to go on a 3-5 day long safari in the Salar de Uyuni starting in Uyuni
-go to north of Chile
-go back to Bolivia: La Paz
-Peru (Cusco etc)
-Ecuador
Kallari, thats for sure but maybe Columbia and Central America at some point?
Mom: I had a look at the map -you also went to North of Chile, Oruo etc do you remember? Is it worth going? Some Bolivian guy told me we shouldn't as it was boring and stuff...
gotta go, xxx yours Solveigh

timetable

sry guys, I don't know why things are being posted twice all the time... But these computers are really slow so I don't wanna wast time deleting them...
My Mum asked for a more chronological overview of my travells:
-1week Connectivity Sao Paulo (15.-22. July 2006)
-2weeks Workcamp Sao Paulo (we built a huge playground for a nearby favela), we stayed in hostfamilies
-I spent some time with a friend of my hostparents' in the mountains in a place called Cuna -a 3 hours-drive from Sao Paulo
-I met Ivan(German), Gawan(German) and Bruno(Brazilian) in a quite touristic fishing-village called Parati; we spent some great time in a place called Trindade (stunning beaches+great rainforest), too. Bruno had to go back to Sao Paulo
-we spent one night in a completly unknown place (a tiny fishing village no tourist has ever set a foot in ) camping on the beach (it was pretty scary!!!!). At six in the morning we were taken out by this really nice fisher-men and the whole advanture turned out to be GREAT!!!!! We stayed on the water until 2pm, caught something like 15kilos of shrimps, we were cooked for and had a lot of fun bathing in the middle of the Atlantic.
-Just in time we got to Angra dos Reis to take the ferry to Ilha Grande. A fantastic island with a lot of rainforest. We went on some quite exhausting hike and were compensated with a fantastic view! The next day the two guys went scooba-diving and I went on another very exhausting hike passing some very beautiful beaches (palm-trees all over, white sand, blue water etc) and finally got to what they call the nicest beach of Brazil: Lopes Mendes!
-After two nights we left Ilha Grande for Rio Dejanero! A great city!!!!! Uncountable kilometers of white beaches. Palm-trees, nice people, huge buildings, fun night-life! The three of us stayed with Ivan's aunt. We went horse-riding (I got a terrible slow horse :( ) and did loads of stuff. Gotta speed up, sry!
-by bus we went to Campo Grande (22h, this is where my throut started hurting...); we spent 2nights in Campo Grande (we were 6people now: Andrea and Iduna two girls I had made friends with during the Connectivity-Conference and Ron(23, Israeli) I met at the bus terminal in Rio)
-we went on a trip to the Pantanal (3nights, several Safaris, horse riding -it was a dream!!!!, piranha-fishing!!!! fun nights sitting around the fire, playing cards...)
-by Ivan, Ron and me got to Corumba. I went to the hospital for the first time (my arm and my hand had started hurting like hell in the pantanal)
-by train we got to Santa Cruz (we met some more people), 2. time hospital
-by bus Ivan, Christian(20, German, Connectivity) and me got to Samaipata, 3.time hospital
Im taking uncountable tablets, I got so many shots I'm not able to count them any more. I really hope it will all be over soon!!!!
our plan is to
-to take the bus to Sucre tonight.
-to visit Potosi after
-to go on a 3-5 day long safari in the Salar de Uyuni starting in Uyuni
-go to north of Chile
-go back to Bolivia: La Paz
-Peru (Cusco etc)
-Ecuador
Kallari, thats for sure but maybe Columbia and Central America at some point?
Mom: I had a look at the map -you also went to North of Chile, Oruo etc do you remember? Is it worth going? Some Bolivian guy told me we shouldn't as it was boring and stuff...
gotta go, xxx yours Solveigh

Fischerdorf Parati

this is where I met Ivan(the one I'm still with -we are on our way to La Paz, he´s German, 20 yrs old), Gawan (also German, 21 he came with us to the Pantanal but didn't cross the border to Bolivia) and Bruno (17, a very nice Brazilian guy we met at the Connectivity).

Parati is this very nice fishing-village, nice little streets and a huge historic center. It is a pity that it is so flooded with tourists -the houses are either Pousadas, souvenir-shops, or restaurants. At this time the small town was particularily crowded as it was the anual literatur-fair.

We stayed at a very nice camp-site right next to some very very nice beach..

One fun thing was to hire a fishing-boat (3 girls from Korea(!!!) joined us which made it cheaper) and visit some of the nice little islands (some of the pictures I posted were taken there....)

Moreover, we visited this really nice place called Trindade where there are very nice beaches with huge waves and stuff. It was there that we went to the rainforest with nothing on us but our bathing-stuff. We had great fun having a nice picknick and swimming in the river with some more Brazilian people. We stayed in Trindade for the whole day. Going swimming in the dark and making our way back through the dark forest -gloeworms playing their tricks on us ,p -quite an advanture but nothing in comparison to what was there to come the next day...

Fischerdorf Parati

this is where I met Ivan(the one I'm still with -we are on our way to La Paz, he´s German, 20 yrs old), Gawan (also German, 21 he came with us to the Pantanal but didn't cross the border to Bolivia) and Bruno (17, a very nice Brazilian guy we met at the Connectivity).

Parati is this very nice fishing-village, nice little streets and a huge historic center. It is a pity that it is so flooded with tourists -the houses are either Pousadas, souvenir-shops, or restaurants. At this time the small town was particularily crowded as it was the anual literatur-fair.

We stayed at a very nice camp-site right next to some very very nice beach..

One fun thing was to hire a fishing-boat (3 girls from Korea(!!!) joined us which made it cheaper) and visit some of the nice little islands (some of the pictures I posted were taken there....)

Moreover, we visited this really nice place called Trindade where there are very nice beaches with huge waves and stuff. It was there that we went to the rainforest with nothing on us but our bathing-stuff. We had great fun having a nice picknick and swimming in the river with some more Brazilian people. We stayed in Trindade for the whole day. Going swimming in the dark and making our way back through the dark forest -gloeworms playing their tricks on us ,p -quite an advanture but nothing in comparison to what was there to come the next day...

Cunha

So gings also mit dem Pkw durch die Berge. Meine neue Gastgeberin Marina -eine Medizin-Professorin erzählte mir viel interessantes über die sog. "toten Städte" die einst von Goldsuchern auf ihrem Weg vom Inland zur Küste belebt wurden, dann aber mit dem Bau der Eisenbahn in Vergessenheit gerieten. Das Land ist übersäht mit überdimensionalgrossen Maulwurfshügeln -ein schlechtes Zeichen: Hier ist der Boden sauer und unfruchtbar.

Ich werde nun nicht viel von meiner Begeisterung erzählen, die ich empfand, als ich bei Marina in Cunha, einem kleinen Ort in den Bergen ankam. Ich war überwältigt. Alles war so anstrengend gewesen. Vor allem hatte mich die Unsicherheit, wohin es mich wohl verschlagen würde etc. doch sehr auf die Folter gespannt. Die Begeisterung, die ich bei unserer Ankunft (bei schönstem Abendsonnenschein) in diesem Paradies (ein riesiger Garten gehörte zu den zwei Häusern auf dem wunderbaren Grundstück) im ersten Moment empfand mag vergleichbar gewesen sein mit jener Überwältigung, die wir (wahrscheinlich alle) empfanden, als wir damals in Sardinien so unverhofft diesen Traum vorfanden...

Ich fand mich also in den Bergen. Habe ich schon davon erzählt, dass es in Brasilien diese kleinen VW-Käfer noch zu Hauf gibt? Cunha war voll davon. Ausserdem fühlte ich mich in den "Wilden Westen" versetzt, weil so viele Männer in Cowboy-Hüten, Jeans und Stiefeln rumliefen... Die Pferde waren auch hier (wie scheinbar überall hier in Brasilien und Bolivien) klapperdürr. Va fanden sich Maultiere... Ausserdem ist der Ort bekannt für seine Keramik-Produktion. Allerdings ist er überhaupt nicht touristisch. Es handelt sich einfach um einen wunderbaren kleinen Ort irgendwo in den Bergen, zu dem kaum eine Strasse führt...

Ein Abendteuer bestand dann auch darin, mit so einem Mann nach Parati (dem inzwischen mehr als touristischen Fischerdorf am Meer zu fahren). 2h dauerte die Fahrt, die uns die 50km Berg auf Berg ab ans Meer führte. Zum grossen Teil führte uns der Weg durch den Jungel -es war das erste Regenwald-Erlebnis für mich. Wunderbare Ausblicke. Schotterpissten -die Strasse löste sich einfach in Erde auf. Und -nicht zu vergessen- das viele Portugiesisch, das ich wärend dieser Fahrten lernen durfte!!!

Habe ich schon erzählt, dass sich die Menschen in Brasilien gerne mit erhobenem Daumen grüssen?

Habe auf dieser Reise schon so viele interessante und vor allem inspirierende Menschen getroffen -Marina ist eine von ihnen. Ich bin überzeugt, dass das mit einer der wertvollsten Aspekte am Reisen ist!

Von Sao Paulo in die Berge

Wow, weitlaeufige Berglandschaften. Kahl. Man kann sich sehr gut vorstellen, wie diese Bergwueste einst bewaldet und dann von Kaffee-Koenigen beherrscht waren. Heute wird viel Eukalyptus angebaut (noch nie hatte ich Eukalyptus-Baeume gesehen), Monukulturen. Eukalyptus w´chst schnell und l´sst sich zu Papier verarbeiten. Nat´rlich haben diese Monukulturen viel schlechtes, aber immerhin sehen sie besser aus als die Kahlen Bergr´cken.

Kann leider mal wieder nicht mehr schreiben... xxx

more pictures

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I really hope to find some more time to write more about my advantures. I surely had a GREAT time travelling up the beautiful Brazilian coastline with Ivan and Gawan. Marvellous beaches (the kind of beaches you would only know from the travelling agencies with great waves, white sand and palm trees), THE ATLANTIC RAINFOREST, we slept on the beach for one night (sry mom, I managed to do all the things you told me not to do in about 5 days -exploring the rainforest wearing nothing but a bikini and stuff -naa, don't worry, I think it was o.k.), a fisherman took us out to fish at six at the morning returning at 2 in the afternoon -best thing ever!!! He cooked for us, we caught loads of fish, we went swimming in the middle of the sea... wow!!!). All these things (Ilha Grande and all the things we planned to do) and on top of everything: Rio -I do know now what it is that this city owns it fame to.

notes leaving Sao Paulo

today i left Sao Paulo. should I put down some things everyone who has been to this place will have noticed?

-the helicopters -apparently, Sao Paulo has the second largest helicopter-traffic in the world. It is the rich and/or important people that don't have time to cue up in the traffic...
-the colourful trees especially the bright yellow and bright pink ones! But also the violet (ehm, the other kind of pink, I mean) and the blue ones. Today, I spent some time reading about Brazil. It seems that I am lucky as theses trees only bloom in Aug/Sept.
-people walking on the streets -something I hadn't been able to understand until a Brazilian friend pointed out to me that there are no sidewalks -let alone bridges for pedestrians to cross the streets (not even the main roads...)
-the fires lit along the streets by the people that live under the bridges (I already told you, after sunset it gets pitchdark and icecold)
-no heating-systems as temperatures are never lower than bearable.
-the funny showers where the water is heated up by some spinning something just before it pours down onto your body (the ones that didn't work at the Connectivity-Accomodation ;p)
-the bins for the toilet-paper
-the Brazilian way of driving (within the two weeks of our workcamp two cars were crushed)
-the fences and walls around the houses and the iron bars in front of the windows
-the security men in their telephonebox-like huts and those on bikes opening the gate of your house for your at night.
-the many dogs behind every fence
-the favelas grouping around huge Hilton-,Samsung- and Siemens-skyscrapers
-the men pulling huge wooden carriages with waste alongside the streets.
-the excellent juices, the coconuts, the red popcorn, the corn, the calorie-intensive foodstuffs sold along the streets.

Rundmail/Links und INFOS!!!

Liebe Klassenkameraden,

Es ist so unglaublich schade, dass ihr nicht zur Tagung nach Sao Paulo gekommen seid! Dass sie eine geniale M[glichkeit geboten h’tte als Freunde zusammen zu wachsen, v[llig neue Welten zu erfahren, v[llig neue und interessante Menschen kennen zu lernen, Wege zu [ffnen und v.a. Ort der Energie, des Lernens und der Anregung gewesen w’re, erscheint fast nebens[chlich, wenn man bedenkt, wie sehr ihr diese Woche geliebt h[ttet!

Ich mache mir schon ein bischen Vorw[rfe, aber ich nehme an, dass ich selbst nicht [berzeugt genug war, um [berzeugender zu wirken…

Nevertheless, inzwischen habe ich viel dazu gelernt, habe nach 10Tagen Tagung und fast 2Wochen Workcamp mehr als ich mir je erhofft habe [ber mich und die Welt erfahren und verstanden. Habe das Gef]hl schnell wie lange nicht mehr [lter und erwachsen zu werden.

M[chte nun, 100% [berzeugt von dem, was hier passiert, weiter im Netzwerk bleiben. M[chte gerne im November/Dezember nach S[d Afrika., um dort eine Idem-Base (“Identity through Initiative”-Organisatoren der Tagung) aktiv mit aufzubauen, mich um die Vorbereitung und Durchf[hrung von Workcamps in Cape Town zu k[mmern und vieles mehr (mal sehen, ob das was wird ;p).

Ich w[rde euch gerne alle einladen, euch selbst ein Bild zu machen, oder sogar selbst aktiv zu werden. Ich habe euch, glaube ich, schon oft von den Tagungen in der Schweiz vorgeschw[rmt. Sie sind alle toll! Jedes Mal trifft man auf neue, interessante und va engagierte Menschen, die einem unendlich viele Anregungen geben k[nnen! F{r mich pers[nlich ist [berigends auch das Thema Anthroposophie von sehr grossem Interesse –solche reicht in alle erdenklichen Bereiche hinein und ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass auch nur irgendwer sie g’nzlich abtun k[nnte.

Zuerst: http://www.idem-network.org/ -die Organisation, die bem[ht ist, Jugendliche auf der ganzen Welt zu verbinden und solche dabei zu unterst[tzen sich durch eigene Initiative selbst zu verwirklichen.

Dann ist da die Jugend Sektion am Goetheanum, die ebenfalls viele Tagungen und anderes organisiert (z.B. das Internationale Jugend-Kunstfestival im letzten Sommer): http://www.youthsection.org/

Die Homepage des Goetheanums (=das Herz der Anthroposophie in der Schweiz nicht weit von Basel): http://www.goetheanum.org/. Hier findet alles M[gliche statt: Tagungen zu den verschiedensten Themen, Kurse, Theater, Auff[hrungen, Vortr[ge, Lehrg’nge etc. Hier kann man auch interessante Studieng[nge belegen (z.B. das Individualstudium –man widmet sich [ber einen l[ngeren Zeitraum einer ganz pers[nlichen Frage und wird dabei begleitet).

Habe hier auch eine Liste von bevorstehenden Events zusammen gestellt. Vielleicht interssieren sie ja den ein oder anderen von euch. K[nnte ich euch auch darum bitten, anderen (ich bin sicher ihr kennt alle Leute und Jugendliche, die sich f[r dergleichen begeistern k[nnen!) von Idem und den M[glichkeiten zu berichten?! Ihr k[nnt auch gerne einfach diese Liste weiterleiten. Ich f[nde es einfach toll und richtig, wenn m[glichst viele junge Leute von diesen M[glichkeiten w[ssten, um sie unter Umst[nden auch zu nutzen. Zu vielem habe ich detailiertere Informationen und kann auf jeden Fall jeden an die richtige Adresse weitervermitteln! Jeder kann mich gerne kontaktieren! (Soborling@hotmail.com).

Die kommenden Tagungen:
Im September 2006: eine Tagung am Goetheanum in der Schweiz. Ein Zukunftkongress. Teil des Mottos ist, glaube ich, “Grundeinkommen f[r Europa”.

Im Mai 2007: eine Idem-Tagung in M[hlheim (Gr[sse an Cilly ;p). Wieder geht es um Soziales: “In was f[r einer Gesellschaft m[chten wir leben?”

Im Sommer 2007: eine Tagung der Jugendsektion am Goetheanum. Das Schlagwort wird “Mittendrin”oder [hnlich lauten.

Und zeitgleich: eine Tagung in {berlingen, bei der es, glaube ich, um das Thema Schule und Bildung geht.

Die definitiven Workcamps:
Ostern 2007: Tansania and Rum[nien

Sommer 2007: S[d Afrika (Johannesburg und Cape Town)

Ausserdem:
Das Initiative Development Training von Idem. Ein Training, das 5Wochenenden verteilt auf ein halbes Jahr umfasst, bei dem es darum geht, Jugendliche mit Initiativen zusammen zu f[hren und sie auf die Realisierung ihrer Pl[ne und Ideen vorzubereiten. Die n[chste Einheit wird am 15.September 2006 beginnen. Eine internationale wird im Anschluss, also im April 2007 beginnend, folgen.


Inzwischen habe ich zahlreiche Projekt-Adressen in aller Welt gesammelt und weiss von Leuten, die auf jeden Fall weiter wissen. Solltet ihr also Fragen haben, oder jemand kennen, der Fragen hat, helfe ich gerne weiter!

Eine andere interessante Organisation ist [brigends http://www.steinschleuder-ev.de/ auch diese organisiert j[hrliche Workcamps u.a. in Tansania.

Ausserdem wurde ich gebeten, euch mitzuteilen, dass Idem-Schweden noch dringend engagierte Menschen aus aller Welt sucht, um sich an einem internationalem Projekt in der N[he von Stockholm zu beteiligen. Es handelt sich um eine biologisch-dynamische Farm ([brigends immer sehr interessant und lehrreich!!!). F[r Unterkunft und Verpflegung ist wohl wie immer gesorgt. Hierbei handelt sich es, glaube ich, um ein langzeit-Projekt, bei dem, nehme ich an, Helfer immer willkommen sind. Hat vielleicht jemand Lust, Engagement an solcher Stelle mit einer Erkundung der skandinavischen L[nder zu verbinden? Tragt die Information bitte weiter!!!
Vielleicht sollte ich es erst einmal dabei belassen. Hoffentlich habe ich ab- und zu Zeit diese Informationen zu aktualisieren! Aktuelles [ber das, was ich gerade mache solltet ihr auch immer auf meinem Blog http://www.solveighinlatinamerica.blogspot.com/ finden. Hoffentlich habe ich bald die M[glichkeit, wenigstens einige der vielen Fotos, die ich gemacht habe hochzuladen!!!

Mich interessiert nat[rlich brennend, was ihr macht: was sind eure Pl[ne, Vorstellungen, Visionen…???!! Was machen die, die jetzt mit mir Abitur gemacht haben???

Auch und [brigends: solltet ihr auf interessante Projekte stossen, bittet leitet die Adrssen an mich weiter, so dass ich sie an andere interessierte weiter leiten kann!!!

Ich hoffe sehr von euch zu h[ren, bis ganz ganz bald,
viele liebe Gr[sse aus Sao Paulo, Eure Solveigh

ps: hier noch mein Lieblings-Link: www.hospitalityclub.org

Favela

Our playground is finished!!!!!!!! It is amazing!!!! Huge items for the children to play with -they`ll love it!!!

What I wanted to tell you about is our visit to the Favela we built the playground for. I think we only went because I didn`t stop enquiering about it. Monika, a very nice maybe 10-year-old girl whose mother had been cooking for us during the last two weeks took us.

I am convinced this visit was unique. No one would ever go there on his own. No tourist guide or guide book would ever take you there.

It`s funny. When I think about how to describe it I can only think of the descrptions everyone would have in his head anyway: huts like pidgion-wholes one next to the other, on top of one another, behind one another, huts inside huts. The houses would be made of everything. Trying clothes on lines (sry, I`m missing vocabulary...) wherever you look. Rubbish all over the place. Many dogs, many children and many men that one should imagine to be working in the streets. Cables that provide the people with illegal electricity and stranded kites caught in the cables.

However, it was different than these well-known descriptions. Somehow it was incredible. I cannot describe this as I only have the words I`ve already put down. It was however different. Being in there. From the outside you have no idea what is hidden behind the normal-looking wall. You enter through a tiny path now broader than the door of a house and you find yourself in another world. One you do not know from any movie, one you would never have been faced with before. No books would have ever described this atmosphere or whatever it is one can not describe...

The moment we entered we were all silent, our heads bent like criminals (only eventually lifting them, not sure whether to greet people or to better pretent not to be there). The sun was shining warmly. Eventually we came to a place where there where many (adult) peple and very loud happy music playing.

We were even able to enter two houses. (one was the one of the cook and one was the one of her doughter`s friend). For these I had, however, never had any descrption in my head. Maybe because it is too far from anything you can imagine. When you think about Favela there is a lot to think about before wondering what the houses might look like from the inside. You would already have moved on to the overal questions of equality and social justice and injustice, the role of the state, human rights and so on...

Well, what does the inside look like? I can not tell you. Our girl`s family was better off than the other one. Although the family had long ago lost their father (only 30% of the families have a father). Two floors, two TV`s, two beds for 4 people each, I think; I was reminded of the house we got to see in Zambia. Many (kitch)pictures of Lady Mary on the walls. An about 16-year-old brother was there, watching his younger brothers and sisters. In a way the place was cosy. But to perceive it that way is horribly wrong. Maybe -even though you wouldn`t be reminded of that while there/ I`m only thinking of this now- you would get most closely to what it is like when you think of the tree-huts we used to build and to play in when we were small. I am sure, every single piece of furniture has a long story to tell. There is no way of imagining where these might possibly come from. The windows would be rectangular holes in the walls made of carton and thin wooden walls. What you see is more huts, some banana-plants maybe, some skyscrapers in the distance.

It`s weird. You heard me using the word "cosy", "the sun was shining", "music". On this day one might have imagined the people to form a huge community living closely with each other, forming a family were everyone is his neighbours` friend... Maybe one should try and imagine the whole place when it is raining (and you find the rubbish being washed down the streets together with all the mudd) or when it is so f****** cold as it gets for example during every night. Maybe one should go on and enquire more closely about what one would have started wondering about when looking for anything like a bathroom inside the houses. There was a terrible looking canal running through the Favela with mountains of plastic bottles and waste on it.

What do you think? If you feel as helpless about these questions now as you have ever felt than you feel the same way as I do. If we have no answeres does this mean that we should not be concerned with the question?

Waldorfschule

mhhh... This morning I got to see another Waldorfschool from the inside. A very priviledged one though. Very nice buildings!!! Many of them conforming to the "Steiner-Architecture" if you know what I mean. The school is huge. Apparently it is only one of 5 Waldorfschools in Sao Paulo.

The peopele are very nice. Chemestry and Physics were jsut the same as I presume they are everywhere.

Lustig, die auf die selbe Art und Weise lasierten Klassenr[ume, die selben Jahreszeitentische, die selbe Sixtinische Madonna etc zu sehen. Auch der traditionelle "ich schaue in die Welt" hat nat[rlich nicht gefehlt. Muss allerdings zugeben, dass ich weit davon entfehrnt bin, den auch nur irgendwie auswendig zu k[nnen ;p

(das einzige, das dann doch sehr ungewohnt anmutete waren die riesigen Bananenstauden (Baumhoch -Gr[sse an Andreas ;p), die Palmen, die in herrlichsten Farben bl[henden B[ume etc!!!)

Was ich hier auch das erste Mal erlebe, sind "Steiner-Hosen"und "Steiner-T-shirts", die die Sch[ler scheinbar tatsçhlich tragen! -Musste so lachen, als ich diese dunkelblaue Jogginghose mit "Steiner" (selbstverst[ndlich in "Steiner-Schrift") vertical am linken Bein runtergeschrieben gesehen habe ;)