A weekend meeting new people and going to new places, oba!!

This weekend was again, a long one here in Angola, which for us meant Joel not working and a break in our routine. Oba!!

On Sunday, we were invited for lunch by Bere, one of our new friends. She is one of the dear people who offered us her place on that confused very first day we arrived. It was a beautiful sunny day and she suggested us to take swimming stuff to spend sometime in the pool and so it was. So, off we went and had a great day. We also met 5 other friends she also invited and the chat was fun and full of good info for our new life here in Luanda.

As we are in Africa and as she in a complex of houses only, one could see some animals that chill out in the complex as true embellishments… such a novelty for me, I must add, and I loved the idea of using local resources for decoration rather than imported resources… how cool is that?

Again, a language story… in Brazilian Portuguese. this chicken is called “Galinha de Angola” or Angolan chicken, but here, in Angola, it’s called “Galinha do Mato” or bush chicken!

That reminded me of the time we visited gorgeous and fabulous Vietnam. There I learned that the war we refer to as “The Vietnam War” in Vietnam it’s called “The American War”! I love when in life, I bump into these situations of a very different point of view about the same thing.

Anyway, coming back to our wonderful weekend in Luanda. Early Monday morning saw us heading to beautiful Cape Ledo, situated about 2 hours South of Luanda. We were invited to go by 3 dear people, Bernardo a friend from Hong Kong who is visiting his sister and brother in law who live here in Luanda. The weather was again gorgeous, the chat was also good and it was specially awesome to hear fresh news from HK.

Carlota, a surfer dog??

It was Carlota’s first time ever at a beach. She has already been to a swimming pool, a dam and streams, but never to beaches. She loved it, reeeeaaally loved it and barked when one of us disappeared in the waves… may be worried she was missing one on her pack? So cute, I must confess. She was totally exhausted on Tuesday, oba, it gave me a break in keeping her not bored, LOL!!

And last but not least at all... guess what is Joana's hobby? Scrapbooking, of course! I could not believe when she told us how she loves to print and make albums ... wow, her words were to my soul like Beethoven is to my ears!!

Remember I mentioned this area is really windy?