Intro to Mascha's Blog...

Dear Mascha (and future readers of Mascha's blog),

So Mascha, when you read this you'll be in Brazil!!!

Hope you will use this to let us know all the things that happen while you're there!

I told Mascha I'd make this blog site for her as a good bye present so she can use it to keep us up to date on everything that's happening there! A few hours ago I went to the airport to see her off together with her mother. I think Mascha was a bit nervous about the bus station in Rio since she had heard that it isn't all that safe... (thanks for that Gabi ;) haha, no it's good that she's aware of things like people who want to steel your bags!).

We said our goodbyes on this first sunny and warmish day of spring and she slowly disappeared into the abbiss of the inner airport with her 9 kg hand luggage...

Off to catch a flight to Paris, then to Rio where she takes the bus at the dreaded bus station and gets off again in Juiz de Fora, where her host family will be meeting her.

I'm sure that when she reads this she'll still have all her things and have settled into her new home a bit already.

Mascha, I wish you the best of luck, and hope you will make some wonderful friends, learn a lot about the language and culture of that special country you're in and have a BLAST!

Enjoy it before it's too late and you're back in this grey, flat country!

-xxx- Bryley



p.s. all future posts will be done by Mascha herself...