Day off! So we went to the gold mines (mined by Slaves for the British, Germans and Portuguese). It was surprisingly fun to find myself amongst a group of tourists- there are so many of us here now. But it was thoroughly entertaining, and really mostly quite lame (which made for great comedy), except for the scary cart ride 120 meters down into the mine which was wicked! The people in the front seat (Ali and Marcus) had nothing to hold them in, or to hold onto and the ride was really quite vertical. It would also be easy to bump your head if you didn't duck when sensible. So much for health and safety. In the cart you can see (right to left) Marcus, Ali, Me, Xss, Chris, Paddy, and then the family who willingly agreed to bring us! Brazilians are very nice, and the couple who brought us work sometimes at New Destiny. I think they enjoyed the novelty of walking around with loads of gringos. However interestingly whenever a local came over to try to convince us to go to his restaurant or museum, the dad in this family was always easily sucked in. We would just say no and walk off whilst he spoke for 20 minutes with each one and believed word for word what was said. Below is a picture of Chris and Ali in front of ´The second largest Iron Ore Museum IN THE WORLD` as informed by a guide.
We are leaving the farm on Wednesday and i am sad. Sad to be leaving the new friends i have made; sad to be going into the unknown again (despite it being so much fun when we went to Salvador only a few weeks ago); sad because i have just recently been managing to find the place where i fit in, and now i am losing it again: If you meet me today, you will find out exactly what a Brazilian LE Geek looks like, and i like it.
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