on my own, ish
a little nerve wrecking as today I was off filming with Adalmir without Samora for translations, Samora has more stuff to sort out and clearly has a lot of other work to do, not sure what is it is or if it is AQCC related…
that aside adalmir and I did just fine, we filmed Marcia [...]
aqua, vida… and a bucket
as I had said in a previous post it has been raining and with water comes life, it is amazing how many insects come alive when it rains… strangely though they all seem to have a life span of about 12 hours so by morning all the insects attracted by the lights are on the [...]
break rank, go go go!
after a couple of days of not getting anything done Samora and I have decided to break rank and just go straight to the areas for interviews, we should go via AQCC and pick up the guys but there is always a distraction… I think they want Samora to spend more time on the office [...]
carnival prep & block parties
the ritual (likely most of brasil the same) for carnival around here is to buy a t-shirt (heavily sponsored) and join a bloco, basically you pay $100 and you get to drink is a designated area for free on everyday of carnival from 2-8pm. apparently the drill between 8-10pm is most people go home and [...]
wear a smile at least
not sure I want to talk about today, a very frustrating day today, we had organised what I had hoped as an easy schedule of work… no one turned up for hours then we rearranged, rearranged again and then went home late with nothing for dinner and sleep.
what is more it has started to rain [...]
raining
not a lot happening today, just working through some of the footage and logging it all, one of the more tedious parts of the work but it makes you keep your footage down on pain of the lengthy reviews!
didn’t make it to the community today either which was quite nice, the driving is killing me [...]
adventurous filming
when Samora was in Mozambique he had all his bags stolen, part of our daily rituals include piecing his ‘life’ back together, I sense his frustration, getting anything done here takes time and getting things back on track is taking longer than hoped. today was the bank and by some crazy twist of fait his [...]
hard disk (agadeesk)
it has taken a while but we finally have a solution… I had been trying to do things the European way instead of the local way and that didn’t get me very far.
as I learnt from my pre trip training Brasil has massive import duties on many goods, just in the same way we do, [...]
down tut farm in Vietnam, ooargh!
today was a long journey to one of the farms that Samora has been working with, I belive they are also one of the most successful. getting there required going down the worst road so far, I thought they couldn’t get any worse but I was wrong, read the polo update for elaboration.
we got plenty [...]
polo update
I’m not really sure how this car is still going, fair play to VW I have to say, and no I’m not kissing arse!
if any of you (at work) have been on the Touareg off-road driving day then you know what they are capable off, the polo however seems to be not far behind. I [...]