Hey favorite people,
I have a new nemesis. My apartment has an ant problem. I like to eat cereal in the morning for breakfast... apparently the ants (formigas) do too. Saturday, I came home to find my kitchen table covered in ants, running to and from my box of Kellogg's Honey Nutos. To give you a better mental image, my table is round and made of clear glass. I could see the ants crawling over both sides of the table along the path to the cereal box. They made the table almost opaque, and it was utterly disgusting. It was a new, unopened box of cereal too! I had to throw the whole thing away.. all R$7.60 of it! I was so annoyed... I went and got my insect killing spray and sent the whole colony to their graves... I'll be keeping my cereal in the fridge from now on- safe from greedy insects who don't respect my breakfast needs. Seriously...
On a lighter note, I went to Búzios again this weekend. I was expecting this weekend to be lame, because all my friends from work were offshore, at school, or home for the weekend. I went to lunch with a coworker (Mario) and friend (Katia) of my housemate (Gabi- offshore), and bumped into another friend (Alex) who was eating with his friend (Edgar). (By the way, if you can follow that, I'm very impressed) The five of us had lunch together and decided to get out of Macaé on Sunday. We went for the day on Sunday, and we spent the whole day at this one tiny little beach called Ferradurinha (little horseshoe). There was this outcropping of rock that blocked most of the waves from getting to the beach. Imagine that the sand is at one end of the horseshoe, there is a cliff at the other end, the curved part is opposite both, and the rocks make the indented portion. The water looks like a horseshoe :) Occasionally, a big wave would crash over the rocks and create excitement for everyone climbing and taking photos. It was wonderfully beautiful. We rented kayaks for R$5 per person for 40 minutes (what a steal!) and paddled out around the rocks to where we could see the open ocean and nearby beaches. All around were these mountains islands that protrude from the water. The sky was crystal clear, the ocean was a deep blue, and I REALLY didn't want to come back to work today :)
One of the cool things about Schlumberger is that people come from all over the world. I think I've mentioned that before, but all five of us were from different countries. Alex- Nicaragua, Edgar- Venezuela, Mario-Bolivia, Katia-Brazil, and me-USA. It was great.. I was speaking Spanish a lot, which was not good for my Portuguese, but you gotta do what you gotta do. The guys kept comparing vocabulary. Spanish varies a lot from country to country, so normal words in one country are explicit in another. It cracked me up that they were so entertained by it.
Oh, based on the responses to my last email, I wanted to send out a disclaimer: I'm being very careful when interacting with guys down here, I promise! I am not involved, nor interested in anyone here. Yes, I'm pasty white and redheaded, and that is considered exotic and beautiful here, but I'm not letting it go to my head :-P
I'll continue to keep you up to date on all the lastest events in my Brazilian world...
Um beijo e um abraço,
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