Another long long day

It's been quite a rough week.

SO so busy in the office, half the hassle is just calling clients to let them know we are busy and not able to help them any time soon. Supprising how many say.. "okay, thanks.."

It didn't help that I've had a cold for some of it which always makes me feel a little overloaded and wanting to curl up and sleep.

Still, the week has ended and the weekend starts here. Sadly the plan for tonight is to collapse infront of the TV with a DVD and an early night. How exciting!

So to make this boring post a little better..

I boarded the plane in London, I was excited as this was a new type of job for me, it was last minute and it was to a new country! YAY.. This was 4 - 5 years ago when I was still learning.

The flight was to Sau Paulo in Brazil. I was a little nervous about the place, but eager to give it a try. The flight was around 12 hours I think.. but that passed quite fast. Landing I was found by a guy who works for my company and he "fast tracked" me through customs with a wave of my passport. The que was HUGE and I got some serious dirty looks, but I was being lead away...

I never got to see any of Sau Paulo in the end as I was immediately thrown onto a domestic flight to Belem via Brazillia. It was at this time I realised.. English is NOT spoken in Brazil! I never thought about it before.. I had travelled to spain before, many times infact.. so I tried talking Spanish.. Well that worked.. kinda.. but people were fairly quick with me! I had no idea why.. but just accepted it.

Flying into Brazillia it was very odd. the capital city. it seemed small and all to neat. The roads were all grass and tree lined and more, they were all in very straight squares. I was a little wierded out and was glad when we took off again to Belem. Here was more exciting.. an old city on the banks of the Amazon river and the Atlantic ocean.

I was greeted by a guy with a deep sun tan and a baseball cap. He had a big smile on his face and I knew thing were going to go well. I was taken to the Hilton hotel in the centre of town and given a room. I collapsed.. It was a very long day.. I knew I needed to go early the next day.

So the next stage was to get up early and head out to the airstrip again. This was a little more interesting. The drive through town was very exciting in my people carrier. No one spoke engish again.. but I was okay with it. The first leg of today was getting into an old propeller plane that held maybe 14 people. This was also amazing.. the view out the window was teriffic, I could see amazonican rain forrest as far as the eye could see. I remember smiling and wondering how I got to be here doing this as a job.

Anyway, we landed in a small airstrip in the middle of the rain forrest. There were maybe 4 - 5 wooden houses around the strip but NOTHING else but forrest and noises. We disembarked and went to one of the houses were we were fed some lunch as we waited for our helicopeter. I looked around the area amazed at the place....

To be continued..