GODISSSS!!

Ohh you can’t imagine how much I miss candy, Swedish candy or any candy! Here they have nothing! Absolutely nothing at all! Just colas…. (don’t know if that’s the name for “kola” in English, I’m sure it’s not). Anyway, here is noooooo candy!!! My mum just send one of my books that I use to write down what I learned from my Portuguese classes and it costed 250 kr which is as much as 24 euros or something like that so I can clearly not afford to ask my mum to send some candy too… Poor me!!

My favorite candy in the middle! Sura cola nappar! This one I’m going to buy before I leave the airport in Gothenburg when I arrive there!

Anyway it feels a little better when I saw the new taste of Marabou chocolate, it doesn't feel that tempting anymore, if you know what I mean...

SHIT – The taste you never forget

SWEEEEEDEN!!!!

Ohhh I’m so happy! Jair got his visa and we are finally going back to Sweden! Don’t get me wrong… I really love it here, but I really miss Sweden because of what happened here. I’m also happy because I have felt like our life has been on hold since we met. We haven’t been able to plan anything because we didn’t know when we were going to live in the same country! Now Jair has his visa in Sweden and both of us can work or study and build a life there! I’m so excited!! And even better, Jair’s excited about getting back, he has finally stopped worrying about all the snow and how cold the Swedish sea is!!!

Jair with his Swedish visa!

It was really hard to find a flight ticket for both of us on the same flight. I had to book from two different travel agencies in Sweden; Travelpartner and Doodle. A 24-hours-trip is not that nice to do alone, especially not if you have something to celebrate and the wine is for free! ;) Sweden you better get ready for the crazy couple on the 14^th of June!

3,5 weeks later...

Now it has been 3.5 weeks since the accident and I already feel better! My teeth are almost back to normal, it’s only the dentist that can see the difference by looking at the X-ray. One of my front teeth is “yttepyttelite” very little more down than usual! The difference is almost impossible to see, so I feel very happy!

Me in the morning without make-up before going surfing at a beautiful autumn day in Brazil

Me in the water – Screeaaaaming!! And showing of my teeth… haha!!

I'm sure none of u can see any difference :)

Jair

I have the most beautiful, wonderful and caring boyfriend in the world. When I got beaten up during the carnival, I told you about it in my last post, my wonderful fiancé Jair took care of me every day! I got really scared to be alone and Jair didn’t leave for one second except from when he had to go to the pharmacy to buy more painkillers for me. Sometimes I insisted to come to the supermarket when he was going to buy food for me. Then Jair put me in a wheelchair that was available at the supermarket because I had really bad stomachache of all the stress of visiting 6 different hospitals in a period of 5 days.

I hated the braces I had and I was scared to death about my teeth because it was impossible to see if the teeth were alright or not when I had that braces. Everyone kept on telling me things like “Emma you will be beautiful again”, but I didn’t know what to believe and was really sad. Then the music went on, Jair put on the song “Beautiful” with Akon, I love that song and I love it even more now. He really knows how to cheer me up! He is a wonderful boyfriend, I’m so lucky to be with him and I’m happy that I found my man so early in life!

During these three weeks Jair has done everything for me. Whatever I want to eat, he buys it, cook it and come to my room with it. When I one stay at home all day to rest he stays, he actually stayed at home almost two weeks with me! He really took care of me!



Baby I don’t know what I would do without you!

You’re my life I can’t live without you!

I love you!

Beaten up!

During the carnival here, there is a lot of fights, a lot... Me and Jair had the misfortune to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, so some people tried to rob us. Jair got beaten with a piece of wood but at least he's strong enough to defend himself from getting beaten up. I wasn't a guy hit me so hard at my mouth that two of my frontteeth almost came out and I got stiches around my mouth and in my head. I don't remember a single thing from what happened at that's making me crazy.

I'm so happy that they have public hospitals in Brazil, if they didn't have that I'm sure that I would have lost a lot of blood and my two teeth too. Because it's really hard to find hospitals that use garanty for payments from European insurance companies. Thanks to the public hospital I was treated very fast and I got to keep my teeth as they called a public dentist that secured my teeth just an hour later by putting braces. The braces very the most ugly I ever seen and as I closed my mouth they had to put glue two times. The braces very so big so I had problems to close my mouth completely! The glue got also colored very easy so if I ate açai my teeth got completely purple and if I ate carrots my teeth got completely orange! I'm happy that that brace is out now, it was horrible!

Travel Tips!

Don’t wear nice big earrings in the blocos or in crowded areas during the carnival. There are girls there that just pull them right out from your ear if they like what they see, which leave you with TWO earlobes on each side of your head instead of ONE! During the carnival I always use earrings that snap of very easily if someone try to pull them out of my ear.

No playground - the street becomes a playground

The kids don’t have a playground anywhere close to where we live, but they are so smart. They use something Jair told me is from the wardrobe as some kind of sledge to go down on the road. Some kids go back home with a big hole on their shorts because their asses is bigger than the sledge that they sit down on! 

Don't miss!

When you are in Brazil don’t miss out to try the super fruit açai! It is a little fruit that looks like blueberry that grows on açai palm in Amazonas. Açai is very healthy and very popular in diet products nowadays. The berry has more than 1000 times the antioxidant levels of red grapes besides having a lot of omega-3, 6 and 9 oils and it is caffeine free!

It’s really hard and expensive to get it outside of Brazil and it is almost impossible get it fresh if you don’t live in Amazonas. After harvesting the berry you should consume it or freeze it down before 24 hours because it starts to lose its important nutrients otherwise.

Best way to eat açai is by making pure, jucie or smoothie from it. It’s delicious to eat it like pure, tastes like ice-cream. I’m enjoying my açai at a local café close to where I live almost every day before going to the beach. It’s really good for breakfast as it keeps you full during the day.

Sweet sunday - crowded on the beach

Sunday is the day when the most Brazilians go to the beach. The most Brazilians are free on Sundays and work the other 6 days of the week. So on Sundays Janine (Jair’s sister) use to join us to the beach! It’s so much fun this time here in Brazil because now I speak Portuguese and can talk to Janine and the rest of Jair’s family.

Brazilian sea monster fish!

The other day the fisherman from our favela came home with a monster that was 50 kilos! I think I would die the same second as I saw this fish in the water! It’s soooo big! It was even heavy to just try to push up the head! I wonder how it tastes like…

Carnival survey

Carnival is near so don't miss my survey! It's right here in my blog to the right. Check it out! Where is the best carnival? The Brazilians except from the cariocas (from Rio de Janeiro) and the people from Olinda keep on telling me that Salvador is the best. I want to have your opinion!

Travel tips!

If a random guy passes you on the street and shouts out “Gostosa” you should act like you got offended. Gostosa means Sexy or Delicious in Portuguese, but it’s much stronger! The only one that is allowed to call you that is your boyfriend, nobody else!

A taste of beach

I love to be able to go to the beach in the morning and feel the sand between my toes and be able to stay on the beach all day and not go home before the tide force me to leave when the water swallow my canga that I'm lying on. That doesn't even bother me because even though the sun is going down my canga will be dry in within 20 minutes. That's the beach life...

When my love's kiss taste like salt and leave a few grains of sand in my mouth that I'm crushing between my teeth some minutes later and that doesn't disturb me because every kiss is like that. Then I know that I'm living the beach life...

When you lose the time perspective and forget which day it is or what you did yesterday, because today is almost the same as yesterday was and tomorrow is going to be the same as today.

Time goes faster, I wish I could just stop it for a while...

I have to save this moment in my memory. I will save it.

I'm going to save it for a rainy day...

The beautiful sunset from our garden one of my first days here in Brazil. I really love the beachlife and I wish that I could stay here for good!

 Emil beach-boy

Jair before he cut his hair, now he's so handsome

Travel Tips!

Don’t walk around with a big map in your hands if you aren’t in a typical tourist area. In some areas should walk with confidence like you know exactly where you are even if you have no idea!

If you need help go inside a store or a restaurant to ask instead of trying figure where you are on the map!