It is day 10 of our trip and things are beginning to wind down.  The effects of being away from family and not really having any rest are beginning to show.  Today wasn't all that exciting.  We did visit an orphanage for about an hour, but then went and had lunch at a nursing home.  We were expecting to be working more with the poor in the flavellas.  We are hoping tomorrow is more hands on.  It feels like a month since we left.  One thing I have to say is that Brazilian hospitality cannot be beat.  Every restaraunt we go to insists on giving us ungodly amounts of red meat.  And we aren't staying at the Hilton, but when you ask for coffee (or cafe as they say in Portuguese) they literally bring it out on a silver platter.  However, laundry costs an arm and a leg.  To get one shirt washed it costs about $3.  So right now my shorts and underwear are hanging outside our bathroom window drying off after I washed them in the sink. 

It is about 1:00am right now and I am still wide awake because I have had about 4 cups of the strongest coffee in the world.  Brazilian coffee is incredibly intense... and good.  I am an addict now.  The only way I can describe it is as if you added 2 cups of raw coffee grounds to a teaspoon of water and heated it up in the microwave. 

More tomorrow....

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