Week 1: Comsumed two cows, ten chickens (including their hearts), a pig, rice and beans, and half an tonne of salt.
Started the project and found we entertained the crowds with making ceramic flowers!
Then we got to experience the ulimate of activites "Brazilian Pottery Evening Classes". Session one Raku- with our favourite guest Gustav the teenage son of the rich lady with too much money and loads of time! Time filled to replace the empty space left by a cheating husband going to drive through motels for cheap sex! Anyway Gustav was the translator, a computer type, with a moustache to rival mine (steve not Carol's), he made the night a little more fun.

Week 2: Consuming more Salt and meat, we are wondering where they get it from? there seems to be alot of dogs barking at night?
On the first weekend we went to Ouro Preto, a old colonial mining town. We went down the gold mine of King Chico who freed the black slaves and built a church, which was one of 11 churches in Ouro Preto which we felt was a bit excessive as the town was smaller then Macclesfield (somewhere up north for those who live in London!) The mine was a little unsafe with no real changes done for say 100 years so not very good for four people from the UK all wearing flip flops! Neither was the town suitable for flip flops with every street being on some harsh gradient or another.

Anyway we had a great weekend away from the co-operative and some time to oursleves (well with the students) it is very beautiful.
Carol befriends the two dogs next door with chicken cheese cake pie thing that we wouldn't/can't eat, but found they still didn't like her after feeding them!

An example of the food served to us by the Students, Fine Dining! The dogs wouldn't even eat this shmuck.

Missao (the project oragnisers) gave us a Afternoon Tea to say goodbye and thank you for our time here, they put on a band who did covers of english tunes but in Portuguese, with tea and cakes. The cakes went down well but the Tea was not a favourite, but no Yorskhire Tea that's where they went wrong!
The project ends and the students leave, but we are staying on the rap things up with the co-operative as ceramics takes too long to get through ideas! Lets be honest I need to be here for the year to get things right!