Greetings from Masana, Phakama SA...
Just checking in because i am two weeks late.... but who can blame me? I am amazed at Brazil. It is filled with beautiful men (chuckle chukle), women and children, the laughter, the smiles, the art, the culture; it has all come together in one beautiful mosiac I take home with me behind my eyelids so that each time i close my eyes there it is!
On arriving in Sao Paulo my first thought was shoooooo heat wave! But i had little time to let the weather sink in as we dashed from check in point to check in point, a little similar to when we left South Africa running about and missing our first flight to joburg... but with a little charm and sass that Lerato and i carry around in a little bag, we managed to hustle a flight... BUT yes, back to Brazil...
I have LOVED it, in hindsight it was not always easy being here but as these two weeks draw to an end i dont think God placed me here for kicks and giggles.... the big word on the tip of my tongue about this project has been ´stretching´i have grown far and wide...but not just because of the amazing bahian food... mostly because i was challenged to use every part of me to express myself and to make sure people understood, and also to understand people, to be at a place where the most important thingis not how I feel, but how WE feel. I look at all of us and see us as different paintings on exhibition (the final performance), with no words to communicate just facial expressions and indents from a paint brush... all of us waiting for someone to describe what the artist really meant by painting the artwork (which in this case it was patrick!) but all of us relying on who we are as artworks (different, beautiful, strange, indulgent, quirky, absurd) to get the message across: no matter how different we are, we are still the same... hahaha the same difference!
I would love to go into detail... which I will, I promise... but not now... now i have less than 24 hours of Salvador left and I want to slurp it all in until i´m full of it... and i´ll share some with you i promise! Unfortunately, i won´t be able to share the most amazing cooldrink with you (drum roll please): GUARANA!! OW!!!! it is too amazing.... ok toodles noodles... chat to you across the atlantic! all my love
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Finallll Dayyy..!!
so this final day has just been thrown upon us! i type from fabios most amazing parents house! with two bathrooms!!! yes 2!! any ways as you all no me and regis are flying home today!! after 14-16 days of intense heat!! which i got burnied!! lool.......well its been enjoyable a really wicked and good experiance, the people we have met and the process has jus been fantastic!!! myyyyy goooddd!!
this is from me jakeeeyyy!!!
this experiance for me has been by far the most amazing and experiance of my life! along side ctw its not every day you get told your going to brazil!! and to have lived the life i have a jus to escape for 2 weeks!!! i absoloutley loved it ! but on the contrary i have missed england..!! i have missed my lifestyle !! but have also enjoyed living the hectic lifestyle of coming to brazil and working for 2 straight weeks!!... yesterday was by far the most emotional day! due to it being the last day many people were crying and the tears were flowing issssoooooo!! lol not from me though i wasnt crying i jus had two big flies who flew into my eyes whilst they were open!! loool.. but it was emotional plenty of pictures were taken and memories made! indentations on peoples hearts and memories!!!! including me! i jus dont what to say really im sure i can evaluate more when i see all you guys!!! but on here it just seems like im rambling on and on!! but i shall now depart and past you to regis!!! casue we are going shopping now!! :)
hi everyone speaking from my heart and in middle of tears my man jake and i had a really good time here in brazil. unfortunately it is time to say good bye to this magic land. i will tell you more details when i´ll get back to reality and dry my unllimited tears.
this is from me jakeeeyyy!!!
this experiance for me has been by far the most amazing and experiance of my life! along side ctw its not every day you get told your going to brazil!! and to have lived the life i have a jus to escape for 2 weeks!!! i absoloutley loved it ! but on the contrary i have missed england..!! i have missed my lifestyle !! but have also enjoyed living the hectic lifestyle of coming to brazil and working for 2 straight weeks!!... yesterday was by far the most emotional day! due to it being the last day many people were crying and the tears were flowing issssoooooo!! lol not from me though i wasnt crying i jus had two big flies who flew into my eyes whilst they were open!! loool.. but it was emotional plenty of pictures were taken and memories made! indentations on peoples hearts and memories!!!! including me! i jus dont what to say really im sure i can evaluate more when i see all you guys!!! but on here it just seems like im rambling on and on!! but i shall now depart and past you to regis!!! casue we are going shopping now!! :)
hi everyone speaking from my heart and in middle of tears my man jake and i had a really good time here in brazil. unfortunately it is time to say good bye to this magic land. i will tell you more details when i´ll get back to reality and dry my unllimited tears.
Monday, 8 December 2008
A Week In A Few Paragraphs!!
helllloooooooo, every one a massive hello from me and regis!! sorry it has taken so long to do this!! i lost the details lol sorry guys!! well me and regis landed safely in brazil and was greeted by a hoard of singers and dancers and also the very very humid air!! we arrived at the hotel and then went shopping with a guy we met called patrick, a translator! whilst fabio sat in the hotel doing work :( we bought some clothes to make us look like locals ! and then we met the peopel from south africa the are realllllly nice ! really funny and caring!!! we will elloborate more at a later stage then we ermmmm went to sleep lool, the next day was spent virtually swiming, shopping, and sleeping!!! the work then started on the third day, meeting all of our fellows actors from novos novos and some over groups i cannot recall the news sorry! the process and has been quite different but a really enjoyable experiance so far!! really loving it me and regis..!!! we have pictures but not great pictures lool we havnt really had a chance to take any pictures becasue the schedule is really demanding and there is only one break! in the day lool working under the blistering sun !! is hard work! whilst you guys jus freeze loool... dont worry im sure there is some spare sun going for sale! right now we are exactly a week into our schedule and work has been really productive and our theatre piece is coming together really well!! tommoro ill be monday and it will begin the intence rehearsal period for monday and tuesday as wednesday we perform and the thursday..... really excited!!! as i type regis is tidying the hotel room lool yes regis is tidying!! lool...... but he is finished now and wants to come and type his piece lool.........
From Regis!
yakawa london, regis AKA regis here, telling how good my trip in brazil in few words won't be easy but i will try my best. well, so far i have been enjoying myself in the little routine between the theatre, the hotel,the restaurant,and of course the beach. well here people are lovely especially the girls. they are banging!!!! there are so many of them that you don't know where to look. so far i may have more than 10 lovers at the same time, me a simple frenchy londoner wauu!!because of my wonderful spanish skills ii is really easy for me to communicate with others in portuguese(more or less).my work with the young brasilians as always started with a big smile from me the first contacts were easy and on a day i learn the basic survival frases such as: que linda(what a beauty), obrigado(thank you) and of course eu te ammo(i love you).ok, here comes the profesional side now, i first had to work with one of the local facilitators which is lulu(mi amor). she is specialiced in movement thru her choreography career. her and i were meant to be together,lol!!,since the first reunion we had a special chemistry the language was not a problem she does speak a bit of english and me portugese so and if it is too uncomprehensible we used our body to express our idea. thanks too god she is funny just like me and also open, simply lovely. personaly after this few days spent here in brasil i feel pretty special and lucky, to all of you guys, thank you very much for every thing and i am sure jake and i will come back with a lot to share, but not my women lool!!! allright now its jake' turn to express his deep(Alfa) feelings
From Jake
yooooo to all you lovely people!!! just wanna start with a a massive thanks to all you guys for understanding the situation and i hope you are all well..!!!well since iv got here iv had nothing but fun fun fun i havnt seen one female i dont like!! tru talks!!! lol im not a smooth a regis but i got me a chika! lol since iv been here i have really enjoyed the process and the people i have met as with regis this lulu has made a lasting impression on me !!! as well as the other facilitators!! it is really funny becasue most of the girls the only english the kno is i love you so thats all they say loooool and our names! me and regis are really loving all the attention we are getting lol my god we sound big headed! we have taught the locals some of our london traits! and they have taught us!!! ( pegada ) wen we get back we will be sure to teach you all!!! the weather along with the beautyfull sun and sexy senoritas!!! it is all jus bliss i feel really lucky to have been put forward for this project and i will be sure to give it my all! well right now i am feelign tired so i am going to hit my bed i cant wait to get my hands on her!! lool good bye people and we love you all!!! xx
From Regis!
yakawa london, regis AKA regis here, telling how good my trip in brazil in few words won't be easy but i will try my best. well, so far i have been enjoying myself in the little routine between the theatre, the hotel,the restaurant,and of course the beach. well here people are lovely especially the girls. they are banging!!!! there are so many of them that you don't know where to look. so far i may have more than 10 lovers at the same time, me a simple frenchy londoner wauu!!because of my wonderful spanish skills ii is really easy for me to communicate with others in portuguese(more or less).my work with the young brasilians as always started with a big smile from me the first contacts were easy and on a day i learn the basic survival frases such as: que linda(what a beauty), obrigado(thank you) and of course eu te ammo(i love you).ok, here comes the profesional side now, i first had to work with one of the local facilitators which is lulu(mi amor). she is specialiced in movement thru her choreography career. her and i were meant to be together,lol!!,since the first reunion we had a special chemistry the language was not a problem she does speak a bit of english and me portugese so and if it is too uncomprehensible we used our body to express our idea. thanks too god she is funny just like me and also open, simply lovely. personaly after this few days spent here in brasil i feel pretty special and lucky, to all of you guys, thank you very much for every thing and i am sure jake and i will come back with a lot to share, but not my women lool!!! allright now its jake' turn to express his deep(Alfa) feelings
From Jake
yooooo to all you lovely people!!! just wanna start with a a massive thanks to all you guys for understanding the situation and i hope you are all well..!!!well since iv got here iv had nothing but fun fun fun i havnt seen one female i dont like!! tru talks!!! lol im not a smooth a regis but i got me a chika! lol since iv been here i have really enjoyed the process and the people i have met as with regis this lulu has made a lasting impression on me !!! as well as the other facilitators!! it is really funny becasue most of the girls the only english the kno is i love you so thats all they say loooool and our names! me and regis are really loving all the attention we are getting lol my god we sound big headed! we have taught the locals some of our london traits! and they have taught us!!! ( pegada ) wen we get back we will be sure to teach you all!!! the weather along with the beautyfull sun and sexy senoritas!!! it is all jus bliss i feel really lucky to have been put forward for this project and i will be sure to give it my all! well right now i am feelign tired so i am going to hit my bed i cant wait to get my hands on her!! lool good bye people and we love you all!!! xx
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
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