Weekend

A Ju veio nos visitar este final de semana. Buscamos ela na rodo no finalzinho da tarde de sexta. Foi otimo ter ela em casa! Ela, com toda aquela energia positiva que ela tem, assoprou uma baforada de ar fresco para dentro da nossa familia, deixando o clima bem mais alegre e leve :) Thanks sis!

Acordamos sabado bem cedinho e fomos com o Lucas, de bike, para a Schin. Esse passeio de bikeé muito lindo, como adoro! Some parts of the way on the bike, some under... But at the end we got there and it was well worth it!

Ju and Lucas, having a break after the cycle.


Schin is nice for many reasons, one of them is the fact that one can jump from the very top of it into the little pool down below. Here am I, also having a rest and meditating on the possibility of jumping or not. I remember not needing to think about it so much in the past, before I knew it I was enjoying, and making good use of gravity force. However, things seem to be changing a little, I must be getting old;)


Ju

The water was a bit cold at first, but nice after staying in it for a while. Spring!

Lucas e Ju

When we got home it was already lunch time. Dad had made a delicious Mullet with tropical fruits, mmm...

After lunch I found this spider on our doorstep. It was already dead, maybe because it fell from its web. Does anyone know what kind of spider this is?


In the evening we went to see The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy by William Shakespeare, performed by class 8 from Aitiara. Aitiara is the local school where I studied from kindergarten to 9. The school is surrounded by nature/forest. Aitiara - "nest of light" in Tupi-Guarani - is a school that offers Waldorf education with art, joy and beauty. Waldorf education is a pedagogy based upon the educational philisophy of the Philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy.
Aitiara was founded in 1984 by the pioneers and farmers of the Demétria farm, so that their kids could have a good education. The school quickly attracted many other people from Botucatu and nearby cities, giving rise to the Neighbourhood Demétria. The school was one of the reasons why my family and myself ended up moving to Brazil, but that's another story...

I know some of the kids from class 8 since they were very little, and for me it was nice to see how grown up they got and how good they are at what they do.

It rained saturday night all night long, which made the nights sleep a lot more comfortable, making it bearable to sleep under a sheet. Sunday morning this huge strange looking mushroom was in our garden (I think it grew overnight). The golden/brown stuff on it is a substance similar to resin, a bit hard and sticky. I had never seen something like that!