Valida é Obrigatório

The Brazilians said at around 11pm that they would come and pick me up in half an hour to go down to a local fair. At 12.30am... giving up and starting to get make-up off for the night, the door bell rang and I was expected to be ready and pleased to see them.

Aside from the concert stage and the firework sesh it was pretty much a small-scale Goose Fair with stalls, food vans and a couple of rides. I had a huge burger.. it had a burger, carrots, mushrooms, lettuce, ham and chips inside it.

The whole thing didn't shut down until 2am and then I was walked back to my flat..... where the Brazilian gang, (15 of them and then me), said that we were actually going into town, (yes at 2am), for a few beers. Now, as you know it takes a lot to get me out in Nottingham, so when i crawled in at 7 in the morning, after having consumed a reasonable amount of beer and hanging in a room full of chain smokers who expected you to be a master of every traditional Brazilian dance (and if you had no idea you were frowned upon), I thought it best I go straight to bed :S

Day 3 - Getting up at 2pm was nice, although quite necessary, and I had a nice meal with Charlotte after waving her mum off at the airport. Charlotte then came back to mine as she can't move into hers until Wednesday and after struggling with the internet for a few hours it was definitely time for bed.

Day 4 - We had a major to do list. Go and get breakfast at the cafe? Successful! Except for the poor Portuguese attempts and them not understanding 'normal' when I was asked what tea I wanted. Apparently, to them that's green tea. Negro. Chá negro in future. I asked for milk.. I didn't get any.. it's because I'm English.

Go into town and get passport photos? Check! Not your average photo machine, no, just an old man with a camera who gives you a comb and a sink to get ready before sitting you down and directing you in different positions. Really never took a passport photo that seriously before and for €5 for 6 photos.. bargain!
Go into university and register? Done. Very nice people at uni. Nice building but quite old. Got my timetables and I seem to start at 8.30am almost everyday. (But finish at 10am ;))

Go shopping? Yes! NorteShopping. I cracked out an "Onde está o NorteShopping?" Before a very nice man practically laughed and said "It's that way." Very big place filled with everything English that you could ever need. Oh. But we had chinese for tea. Yet to do something typically Portuguese...

However, finishing everything on our to do list resulted in mass blisters on feet and sweating of epic proportions. If that wasn't enough the lights suddenly went in the flat. Flicking all switches available, we decided to find neighbours to help. We listened through a door and heard lots of people and so we knocked.. but no one came. As we went down the stairs the door banged... we came back but it was shut... we went down  again and it happened again.. this repeated itself until we found nice neighbours who pointed out that us 4 girls (all in pyjamas) had failed to flick the one switch we'd needed to. We settled back down to our laptops and the neighbours we had first tried were now playing knock-a-door-run with us. Great.