

After a relatively comfortable overnight bus ride, we arrived in Arequipa on Tuesday morning. Arequipa is a city from the colonial period surrounded by three volcanoes: Misti...
After our Paracas tour, we headed to Ica/Huacachina, an oasis in the middle of the desert. The highlight was the sandboarding tour (see photos). It took some courage to slide...
We took the bus from Lima and headed south for about 3.5 hours to a small town on the Pacific coast called Paracas. We spent our Easter weekend there. We took a boat trip to the...
It's been over a week now since I had to say goodbye to Brazil and these amazing people who have become very dear to me in the past 7 weeks. With a laughing and a crying eye, I...
Guess where I was last weekend 😍 #riodejaneiro #wuuupwuuup. This city is simply gigantic! I could never have imagined that Rio is so beautiful. The city automatically...
It's been a while since my last post. That's mainly because I didn't have much to report, as I do the same thing almost every day. However, last weekend I was at Foz do Iguaçu,...
This week we tried to bring our countries of origin closer to the children (under the motto of 'interculturality'). This includes eating habits, music, different cities and...
I have been in Brazil for 3 weeks now - that means halfway! I have experienced so much and made so many experiences here. It feels like I've been here for months. Since I...
Today we had our first day at the Dom Orione educational center, a facility similar to an after-school program in Germany. Here, mainly children from disadvantaged backgrounds...
12th day: a lot has happened in the last two days. We were supposed to start working on Monday. However, the entire public transportation declared a 24-hour strike, so we...
Day 9+10: The last two days were the most beautiful ones I have spent here so far. Yesterday afternoon, we set off in a fully packed car to a house by the sea, where André's...
Hello! There isn't much to report today, as I spent the first half of the day just relaxing. Of course, after breakfast, I unpacked my things - it's a great feeling to finally...
Today marks exactly one week since I arrived in Floripa. And it took just as long for me to finally find a host family. But before heading to my new place, after a painful night...
Today I finally moved! However, not directly to my new host family, but first to Henara, a staff member of AIESEC, because I couldn't stay with Maike's family anymore. But since...
Today, after breakfast (which was actually in the afternoon), we went to Praia Mulho, a beautiful beach on the east side of the island. Since we live in the continental part of...
Today was a relaxing day. Since we came home late yesterday and it was pouring rain all day, we decided to have a Netflix day and cooking night after exploring the huge...
Slowly but surely I'm getting used to Brazilian times - which means that you don't get up before 10 am; rushing is an unknown word, breakfast is at 12. If it says we leave at 1...
Update on Day 1: At 3 o'clock in the morning German time, I finally arrived at my host family's house. At first, it consisted of two students. One of them welcomed me, but only...
After 18 hours and 16 minutes, I finally landed in Florianópolis. At the same time, another German girl arrived, with whom I was supposed to spend the day. Contrary to my...