UPDATE

Oi Tu De Bem? (Hi How are You)
Well we are back in Rio for the day before embarking on an 18 hour bus ride north to Porto Seguro.
I was disappointed that the Favela work fell through here :( but am still in contact with the people and hope to get it when we come back through Rio in September. 
The new plan is to get into it pronto when we reach Baha and Salvador in a couple of weeks.
We had a blissful few days in Paraty and I have been offered work there in a hostel for the summer (Oct - Jan) which is kinda exciting but I haven't gotten close to deciding!
It is expensive in Brazil and I'm finding it a bit stressful at the moment, especially when we have so far to travel between places! This is definitely a place that needs a few months to really explore (and LOTS of money!)
I am homesick today for the first time - i miss my friends/family but I have to keep sucking it up, because I'm in BRAZIL
Last nite was a testing time - we caught the bus from Paraty to Rio and arrived after 11 pm to a chaotic bus station with hundreds of people lining up for taxis...we decided to skip the queue and managed to flag one down (only 1/2 an hour wait thankfully) and high tailed it (at break neck speed thru lightening, thunder and torrential rains) to our hostel where the wonderful people here remembered us and had dinner ready! so great!
The others are asleep and I'm booking us for the next few days!
I will update as soon as we arrive in Porto Seguro :) xx