Guriri 3/1/1986 Friday
It’s 21:52 and we only got here at 19:40. In the morning we got in a bus and went to Praia Da Costa, in Vila Velha, just to check it out. I met Marcinha, from Caseb, there… We checked out of the hotel at 14:00 and got the bus at 15:30, the bus stopped everywhere to pick people up, when we got to S Mateus the guy supposed to pick us up didn’t even know we were arriving today. Gloria’s brother is a paediatrician and when my mum called he wasn’t home, so the maid called him at the hospital and he came to get us. The thing was he didn’t know us, so he had to ask lots of women if they were Francesca. He said he nearly got slapped a couple of times. When he got to me my mum was calling him again, so he asked me if I was Francesca, and I said I wasn’t. because, well, I’m not. He looked sorry for himself, so I said ‘but I am her daughter, will that do?’
So he took us to Guriri and Gloria introduced us to everyone, there are two girls the same age as me but we barely spoke. There are two houses here, we are staying at the house at the back. There are about 10 of us staying here