Vinterdvalan är slut! Nu bär det av till KRETA!

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Nu har jag äntligen kommit ur min vinterdvala! Jag ber verkligen om ursäkt för det! Hoppas att jag mina kärare läsare kommer tillbaka! Jag har jobbat extremt mycket det sista så jag har inte orkat annat än att ligga på soffan när jag har kommit hem ända sedan i februari.

För att kompensera all övertid som jag har jobbat så har jag bokat en välförtjänt resa till Grekland faktiskt! Närmare bestämt Kreta!!!! *Längtar* Jag åker faktiskt redan nästa vecka!!

Sen nöjde jag mig ju inte bara med 1 vecka i Kreta i sommar, utan vi har även bokat 8 dagar i Portugal och 10 dagar i Italien i augusti! Det blir direkt från Portugal till Italien, så det blir nästan Europa runt i sommar hehe!!

Sen har jag tagit ledigt för 4 veckor i Brasilien december - januari! Underbart!!!! 

Ägg och farofa!!! Mums!!

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Dt är verkligen jättegott! Dt kunde jag aldrig tro! Farofa är ett slags mjöl gjort på Maniok (en slags rotfrukt). Brasilianarna använder dt för att göra maten torrare. Dom är nämligen inte så förtjusta i mat me mkt sås. Är dt sås så häller dom på mjölet så att dt ska bli riktigt torrt!!

Jag har aldrig varit nåt stort fan av farofa, men ägg o farofa är faktiskt riktigt gott!!! Förresten, farofan är egenimporterad från Brasilien!!!

Klädkod: Brasilien

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Fick tipset av mormor att ett program som heter Klädkod på svt visades på TV i torsdags och dom ägnade ett helt program om Brasilien!! Skithäftigt!!!

Programmet handlar om allt från dom minimala bikinisarna till de stora afrikansk inspirerade kläderna som används i Salvador!! Riktigt intressant program!! Dt finns tillgängligt på svt play till och med den 11 februari! Titta på det!! Det är bara 30 minuter! För att komma direkt till videon Klick här!

Mitt 2011

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Sista dagen på år 2011. Kan knappt fatta att tiden går så fort. Men det går fort när man har roligt!

Mitt 2011 har varit underbart! Det började i januari (som för alla andra)... I slutet på december 2010 sa jag upp mig från mitt gamla jobb och följde me min fästman till Brasilien. Han hade varit i Sverige i 6 månader, men hans turistvisum var slut. Han var tvungen att åka tillbaka o söka uppehållstillstånd i Sverige. Det skulle ta 9 månader. 9 månader! Vi tyckte det var 9 månader för länge att vara ifrån varandra. Eftersom jag både jobbade heltid och pluggade heltid bestämde vi att jag skulle följa me till Brasilien och bara plugga i 6 månader. Jair fick sitt uppehållstillstånd i mars. Det tog inte ens 4 månader!

I Brasilien pluggade jag 5 distanskurser samtidigt på en hastighet av 150 % vilket motsvarar 60 timmar i veckan! (Kan nämna att jag för tillfället är ganska skoltrött!)

Min bror var också me i Brasilien. Vi bodde allihopa i Jairs hus me hans familj i favelan (kåkstad). Jairs mamma tvättade allt för hand så min familj o Jairs bror i Portugal sparade pengar o köpte en tvättmaskin till henne! Nu behöver hon aldrig mer tvätta för hand! Jairs mamma fick också ett strykjärn i födelsedagspresent. Nu slipper hon värma ett järnstrykjärn över elden för att stryka kläder!

I mars var jag me om en olycka. Eller ett rån rättare sagt. Två av mina tänder blev nästan utslagna och jag fick sy i mungipan o i huvudet. Munnen läker väldigt snabbt, så efter tre veckor var jag utseendemässigt helt återställd. Det va ju såklart inte så kul, men jag återhämtade mej ganska snabbt ändå. Vi stannade kvar i Brasilien till juni.

I juni var vi tillbaka i Sverige. Vårt plan landade mitt i natten. Dagen därpå gick jag på en jobbintervju och fick jobbet! Jag började jobba direkt. Sen flyttade vi till gbg i september. Jair började Svenska För Invandrare. Jag fick ett nytt jobb. Jair fick jobb som diskare. Sen fick han ett till jobb som städare.

Vårt liv i Sverige har verkligen fått sig en rivstart! Efter bara ett halvår här, börjar Jair känna sig riktigt hemma! 2012 kommer bli ett bra år!

Guys, use condoms - see the best commercial - EVER!

The best commercial for condoms I ever seen! It's even so good that you feel sorry for the dick when he's walking all sad and all the pussies run away to escape from him!! Haha!!

By the way, the commercial is Brazilian!

Comer a vontade - Eat as much as you want

Brazil has a lot of restaurant which offer something that is lika a buffé, but you sit at your table and the waiter bring the food for your table. The best with this kind of restaurants is that you can eat as much as you want!!! Two days ago, me and Jair went to one of this restaurants which served 8 different cooked shrimps! The food was amazing!! 

Unfortunately for me I think I got food-poisoned... The last night my stomach started to hurt, but it can be something I ate yesterday too, probably more likely... :(

Travel facts!

Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, probably Olinda too is crazy during the carnival! I can just say BE CAREFUL! Don’t be even close to the “pipoca”. The pipoca is the people that are standing “outside” party looking when the trucks pass by. This people don’t have enough money to buy a T-shirt and join the party so they participate by looking at the carnival. In the pipoca there is always people that are there for get some money by robbing tourists (even Brazilians!)! As I said before DON’T go close to the pipoca! By the way, it’s called Pipoca (popcorn) because look like popcorn from the side because they are jumping up and down on the same spot!

Carnival is crazy, DON’T carry your camera if you can’t afford to lose it (only in the camarote). DON’T have pockets on you shorts, even if you’re not carrying anything it’s not very pleasant when you have someone’s hands around your private parts. If you’re a girl DO use shorts in the bloco, otherwise you will for sure have some people’s hands between your legs during the time in the bloco, not so nice! DON’T bring your passport or other documents if you don’t need too (there is a law for Brazilians to bring but nobody do – I don’t know the law about this for tourists but wouldn’t bring my passport anywhere during carnival). During the six days of carnival 1100 documents was found! So I just wonder how many was lost totally????

Don't miss!

When you are in Bahia there are some dishes that you simply can’t miss out on! In Bahia there are some dishes that only do exist in Bahia. The food have African influence from the times when Africans where slaves for the Portuguese here in Brazil. One of these dishes is Moqueca!

I strongly recommend Moqueca de Camarão which is Moqueca made with shrimps, coconut milk, azeite de dênde (which is some kind of red oil which comes from a palm tree) and pimenta (which is chili in portuguese). Moqueca can also be made with fish instead, then it’s called Moqueca de Peixe. MMmmmm… it’s soooo good!

I know I haven't been writing for a while...

I know that I haven't been writing for a while... very bad because I don't intend to stop writing, not even after leaving Brazil (which is in just three weeks by the way).
But blogger have to take the whole blame for this! It's boring to blog without pictures and until now I haven't been able to upload any picture and that SUCKS! I had to log on to Picasa webalbum and upload my pictures there and than pass them for my blog!

That makes me just wanna do this:

YES! Bloco Carnival 2011

We were only planning to do two things during the carnival so weren’t really planning to go to Bloco Yes! Anyway we decided to go but Emil didn’t have more money for buying a T-shirt so all our friends cut of a piece from their T-shirt to make one for Emil. Emil didn’t believe that it was going to work but Leo convinced him! A woman in a store put the T-shirt together, but you could see that it was fake long way… Anyway Emil managed to stay inside without get thrown out for the whole time and he only paid R$10 which is 40 kr or 4 euro for a T-shirt that we paid R$250 (1000 kr or 100 euro) awesome!!! The funniest was that after the bloco finished and we were heading back to the bar someone stole Emil’s totally fake T-shirt! How can that happen!?!

Emil and Jair

Emil, jag and Jair

Me and my littlebrother (who is sooo big now)

Jair and me

HEJ NORGE!

Norweigan girls

Leo and Emil

Leo is Brazilian but more white than Emil!!!

Jair, me and Thomas

Thomas and Jair

 Me and the two blonde Swedish police girls!

Carnival!

Camarote Skol 2011

Today I was thinking of finally write about the carnival! I really wanted to do it before but I haven’t felt like I was ready to talk about the carnival because of what happened. But know I feel better. I had really fun during the carnival, the four days that I had the time to experience.

Camarote Skol was by far the best! We had open bar, free make-up, free decorating of the clothes for girls, free beer-glass, free hand-cuffs ;) they handed out a lot of other things to put in your hair also. It was awesome and so much fun! I wished we could do that every day!

We went with Jair’s awesome Italian friends Roberto Faga, Elso di Marco, Massimiliano and his girl! We had so much fun!!!!

Massimiliano and his girl

Jair and me

One thing happened there that was a little bit scary but it’s normal if you’re me… I faint sometimes and I’m actually happy that Jair got to see that because now he knows that I’m not dyeing or something like that if it happens again he will know that there is no problem. I felt a little bit funny after one sip of my glass, like I couldn’t breathe probably so I asked Jair to stay one second with me before leaving with the others. Then it happened I was hugging Jair and just passed out and started to shake a little bit (according to the people who witness the whole thing). Just a short while after I felt someone holding my back, like in a dream and I woke up. I saw that Jair was still standing up with me hugging me and there were a lot of people around us. A guard was there and I was sure that I was going to tell me to go home, but he was just there to check on me and I felt fine, I felt like it never happened. Everyone told me, to drink water, but I didn’t faint because I was thirsty of course not haha! And I felt better than ever, like I just had a powernap! No more dizzy nothing! So we continued the party and stayed until the place closed at 5 am. 

Jair's wonderful Italian friends that we are planning to visit in august this year!

Jair and Roberto

Little brother Emil with a sixth-sense, at the same second as I fainted he walked up the stairs and found Jair holding me - magic connection

Elso, Jair and Roberto - belengooooo

Family!!!

Bloco passing-by, but there was actually more find to be in the camarote than in the bloco! There is much more things to do in the Camarote and much more safer!

My very own free stylist!

Jair and Roberto

Bloco truck passing by, you can see the little bar there cool!!

Mmm... I love beeer!

Travel tips!

A few Brazilians speak English so make sure to learn simple phrases as “Quanto custa?” which means “How much?”  and how to count in Portuguese that’s always useful when you want to buy something. But be aware that people might try to trick you. 3 três, 6 seis and 10 dez  is pronounced like “trays”, “says” and “days” so the sound is very similar. The salesmen on the beach may tell you that the price is seis and you hand him dez because you don’t have any change, but he just walks calmly away instead of giving you the change back. When you tell him that the price was seis, he just shakes his head and tells you dez! This happened to me, but I stood up for myself so I got my money back! NOBODY trick me!

Jairs new surfboard!

Jairs new surfboard, half Swedish flag and half Brazilian flag, so coooool!

Me with our surfboards, the most beautiful in Barra!

I love Jair's new board, in actually felt flattered that he wanted to make half Swedish flag. Now we just have to find a nice place to surf at in Sweden because the boards are coming with us!