Tony and Laura Lewry

Last night we went out for Pizza with some friends, a local restaurant had a deal £4 for pizza, pasta and salad buffet!! i was feeling like a real student!! But on the way 3 police cars came past and surrounded a bus just by were we where standing. As we watched, the heavily armed police piled out of the cars, and headed onto the bus. They firmly removed 3 young men from the bus and took them away. Now this really is student life!!!

One of many thousands of lizards which scamper around the base!!

The street visit went well this week. I was giving first aid. There was a man who had maggots in his wound. Needless to say it did gross me out a little, but it is an age old method of healing wounds ( although  I'm not sure he realised this.) Which leads me onto a request: if anyone reading this (or you know of anyone) who has any advice on extreme first aid, please ask them to email me! I have a few questions, ( yes, one does concern maggots) that I would really appreciate help with!

I have to admit that I was a little nervous last Monday afternoon. It was my first time in a Brazilian Favela. We were going to search for Chris, to see how he was getting on, if he had made it to school yet, and to let him know there are still people who care for him. When we first arrived I was a little surprised the area looked a lot like the one we live in here, called Santa Monica, which was one of the worst Favelas in Recife 10 years ago, but now is more of a "community". The area we arrived in was even more developed than our community, houses were painted and tiled, they had pavements and there was no litter on the floor. But we turned down a side road, parked  up and entered a maze of shanty houses that were little more than a metre apart. People sitting in their doorways watching us go past. It felt very claustrophobic. I felt like an intruder, so obviously not from this part of the country. People sit on their doorsteps doing things together, it feels like you a

I grew some aubergines!!

For my birthday, in December, some friends gave me a chili bush, which comes in very useful when the food here needs a bit of spicing up!!!

 For my work duties on Saturday we started work on this one room shack,  preparing it for a family to move into.  This week we laid a concrete floor and started the septic tank.