Tony and Laura Lewry

Rain hampered our bricklaying one afternoon so we hid in the Wendy house!!

we put together some steels for the foundations and columns then we poured the foundations then we built some walls then we built some more walls (90 square meters) then we put some steels in for the first beams check out the shanty platform!! and just wait until I post some pictures of the scaffolding we are using. Building a supporting wall is a whole load of work!! Laura is working too but I haven't taken any photos of what she is doing!!! but I assure you she has been working!!

A Blind snake, it only tried to bite me when I touched it!! about 60cm long. just looked on line and found out that it is in fact a worm lizard!!

Acai is a lovely fruit that makes an even lovelier desert which involves milk powder, condensed milk, granola, bananas, and frozen acai berrys!! On a bad day, the thought of it truly carrys us through!! The postal strike here has finished so we can receive post!!! thanx Heath!!!!

Brazil is 35 times bigger than the UK!!! source, the all knowing Mike Simons

Today we met our Portuguese teacher, she seems nice, although she's very flamboyant expressing her self, which is useful as she speaks no English.

we are going to a churascaria which involves eating as much bbqed meat as we can!!!

This is the trench we have been working on for the supporting wall. When it is finished the wall will be almost 60m long and 3m high!!! This is the trench the termites dug in the back of my wardrobe before they started to make a home out of all my clothes!!! I hate them!!!

This is one of the street kids we were with the other week. Most of them are inhaling glue out of plastic bottles like this. They, as a result, are pretty subdued. They love to colour and to play Dominoes, but they do cheat!! I have to block out the eyes of the kids to protect their identity.

This week we saw a large toad, a sleepy frog and a sloth!!! Good week!!!

As I'm sitting working on the computer Lola the dog is eating the mosquitoes that are circling my feet!!! she's a good dog!!