Day 13
By Stefan and Silvie, After a short sleep, we felt it was necessary to sleep as long as possible. Except for one group, who still had to do some measurements. However, that group was the lucky one, because the showers were still hot. When [...]
Day 12
By Riccardo and Joshua, After many days of getting up early, we have a day that we finally could stay an hour longer in bed. A city tour was planned. First stop, Pinacoteca do estado / parque de luz. In the museum an exhibition [...]
Day 11
By Gerton & Wies. The alarm rang also this time early for making sure we could leave the hostel at 8 o'clock. As real Dutch the still sleepy group arrived at headquarters of Sustentech before the meeting time. We were directed to a small eight [...]
Day 10
By Hanneke and Babette Due to privacy, the names in this article are censored. This article is based on a true story and actual events. Thursday the 19th of May started with a game of Mariokart inside the hostel at 00:00am, whilst drinking a [...]
Day 9
By Stijn and Wouter K During sunset all participants are resting peacefully on one ear. So the hostel was peaceful and quiet. At 8:05 hell breaks loose. Alarms are ringing the bedrooms. Bags are stuffed with dirty laundry, toiletries and other necessary attributes needed [...]
Day 8
By Kay and Giel The day started with a nice breakfast, including the Brazilian fruit Papaya, at the hostel. After the breakfast everybody walked to jeeps for a long tour. The first stop of the jeep tour was at the fort of Paraty, a [...]
Day 7
By: Daan & Lara While the Caipirinha taste was still in our mouths from the evening before, the group had an early (6 am) breakfast to get the bus to Paraty. The ride to the busstation was done by taxi. In order to fit [...]
Day 6
By Tom and Lennert It’s nine o’clock in the morning, everyone is enjoying breakfast. But it’s not the bread and eggs that get the attention, it’s this one heroic young man on his way to immortality. Despite his recent acquirement of a driving license, [...]
Day 5
By Silke and Michiel, After a short night we started the favela with one man down. The tour was trough the favela “Rocinha” with 75,000 inhabitants located at the west side of Rio de Janeiro. The favela is famous for its criminality, in which [...]
Day 4
By Wouter & Robert Today on the program “surprise activity” although, because of the rainy weather forecast the day before everyone could chose to join. The surprise activity of today is a boat trip to the island Ilha de Paquetta. On this island there [...]
