summer in the big apple NYC and BKLYN

3 and 4 = the new 18!!!!

me and my bff kimaya

the last few days of activities

mama was teaching me the moves she is learning in belly dancing class...i think i am also going to take some classes...ohhh boy mama is worried i will become even more addicted to posing...and vain!!

yes, i like to pose...i poooooooose all the time...

at tia Sandra's bday party...mama said she turned 20.5 years old (x 2) just like mama will be soon...


me and the old-young childhood friends

...this is my friend Miguel...at his house in Cidade Velha. he is not even 2 and the bravest kid i have seen...fearless...i was behaving like a city girl...mama said she needs to take me into the countryside more often...

i'm too fresh for my mask

I went HIKING

in search of waterfalls !!! i hiked up and down a valley in cidade velha....i am a natural...

Mama in Fogo Island...

Yeah..mama decided to go say hello to the volcano and de-stress a bit...

view from the hotel's garden...can you see mama's toes?

mama said she had an amazing dinner at Tortuga B&B...

appetizer>> smoked meat with fresh figs, swordfish with coconut, shark carpaccio, goat cheese and hot pepper jam....ohhhh ammmmaaazing mama says...sound disgusting to me!

On my way to NEW YORK

With Tia Kesha
I was soooooooo hHHHyyyyYYpPpppeEEErRRrr .... clapping and screaming inside the plane. Tia Kesha told me I could not scream inside the plane and I asked her: " WHY can't I scream inside the plane? WHY?"...

We were stuck on the tarmac for a long time (something about some guy who thinks he is a big shot traveling with us...the prime mister whatever)...so while we were waiting around I kept on asking: "are we moving ?" and Tia Kesha kept on answering no, that we are still on the ground and I was quick with my favorite word of the month "WHY?"

as soon as we got in the air, i asked "are we not moving?" and she said that we were moving and I off course asked "WHY?"

I am glad Tia kesha went with me on the plane. I took good care of her and played and played with her, otherwise she would have had to sleep, how boring!!!!

June 2010

Hi!

Mama in EGYPT (no, she did not take me!!!)

mama looooves camels...she tried to buy one to bring to Cabo Verde

mama and pyramid...need we say more?!?!?!?

tia Andreia and Mama with Pyramid

mama inside the tomb in the pyramid

mama on the Nile (but hopefully > not in denial :-)

African Urbanism Colloquium Cairo 2010

Mama working...

amazing!!! at the temple at Edfu

mama bought me a bedouin tent so i cna feel like a queen!