Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Bah, Che!

Dear students,

It´s 20:26 in the capital of the Pampas Gauchos and I assume you´re at the branch having some fun with Marcus. I´ve just got back to Porto Alegre, after a two-day trip to Torres, where I sort of took part of in a hot-air balooning international championship. (Well, at least I DID ride in a pick-up truck spitting flames into the sky (that´s the one they use to inflate the ballons) and honking like mad in the middle of the night. Yes. The teams do that after calling off the day, all 50 of them in a mad flamming pilgrimage).

I´m back to Porto Alegre then. The first thing I did was to rush to the Guaíba east margin just in time to see that world-famous (?) sunset. And after typing this I´m off to a pub. I´ll post a picture of the Guaiba at dusk as soon as I get back to Rio. See you next week them. Don´t forget to tell me what you´ve been up to this week in the comments ;-) Cheers!

1 comment:

Jonas Knopman said...

Hi Fabio,

Years and years and years ago, I was in Porto Alegre and went to visit a cousin of my mother who lived in the city. Over dinner she asked me when I was going to come back to Rio. I replied that I'd go on the next day because I wanted to make the boat trip in Guaiba. She looked at her husband and both smiled, then she said: "You can go today. There is nothing to see in Guaiba worthing the extra night". KKKKKKK
See you on Wednesday,
Jonas