We are enjoying the Brazilian 'winter', fresh and breezy at times and coolish at night, but sometimes it's 32 degrees in the daytime!!!!
The go-team who were with us have now left, so it's very quiet here. They were a real blessing to us, helping out with some major practical work, and bringing a youthful energy and enthusiasm to the childrens work here. We have also said goodbye to some volunteers, what is strange in all of this is the temporary-ness of relationships. It's really hard to continue to meet people and spend time with them and then to say goodbye, knowing you will never see them again on this earth. It's not good to not form relationships because of this, yet what kind of relationships are we really able to form? In the last 6.5 months we have met some wonderful people, and many of them are no longer here, we enjoyed the time we spent, but now there are even more people to miss. I don't want to become cold towards new people though, particularly the volunteers who come with such enthusiam to see 'missions' and may only be here for a few weeks.