Olá!
I’m here to write what has happened during my first week in Rato. This week was quite exciting as a lot of things were going on!
After I finished the first post on the blog Nuno gave me a task to make a map with the important places of Sesimbra. In that way I got more familiar with the area, and it was useful, because Nuno said he was going to take us there on the weekend. After it on Wednesday and Friday Martyna and I helped Nuno to make a class in teaching Portuguese for Muslim people. And it was a very unusual experience, because before I had a very limited contact with Muslim people (especially women), but I was always interested in this culture and their way of living and seeing things. It was also very helpful for me, because we were learning numbers and how to use them, which is extremely necessary in an everyday life.
We also had two classes of Portuguese with a teacher. The teacher is amazing, so I really hope I will start to understand some Portuguese as soon as possible. Now we gonna have even 3 classes a week, so I believe that’s possible to learn a language in 9 months with such amount of classes.
Besides it, João taught me how to edit videos in Camtasia and I even almost finished my first video with a Portuguese song “Um Contra O Outro”.
On Friday there was a Chocolate Festival taking place in Corrois, so Martyna and I decided to go. It was very unexpected to get to know that “chocolate” festival will have more meat than chocolate. But still we tried a lot of interesting local food and drinks there, like ginjinha in a chocolate cup, hidromel etc.
On Sunday Nuno took us to Cabo Espichel and Sesimbra Castle. The views were extremely awesome as you can see from the pictures. We had a lot of positive emotions from that trip!
After it on Monday Martyna and I decided to go to explore Lisbon. We went to Panorâmico de Monsanto to see a beautiful abandoned restaurant, which has a lot of street art in it and a beautiful view on Lisbon, it also looks a little post-apocalyptic. Then we went to Museu Coleção Berardo. This museum was very big and besides permanent exhibition, it also has interesting temporary exhibitions, so we spent a lot of time there looking mostly at the pieces of modern art, which sometimes can be quite strange, but still very intriguing.
