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Stella Van Der Klugt, holandesa de nascimento, brasileira por escolha e amor, psicanalista de profissão, artista de alma. Os quadros que pinta tem o azul-índigo do céu de verão, as músicas que escuta à luz de suas perfumadas velas são noturnas e suaves como o saxofone que ela estuda, com a voz de Ella Fitzgerald. Suas maiores paixões além da música e da pintura, são televisão e o Guga. Mas o que ela gosta MESMO é de estar cercada de gente amiga. Amiga como Stella é de quem se aproxima dela.(por Assunção Medeiros)
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On the 23 rd , of december,we left for Palm Springs to spend Xmas with Claire's aunt and uncle Maria and Eddy. Eddy is a Swiss Chef and dinner was fantastic and so was breakfast, Maria has special attention to details and everything has a xmas theme to it .
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. We left Claire's house and took the (10)freeway untill the (215)freeway went accros the Badlands and joined the (10)freeway again until Palm Springs in Coachella Valley, a valley between Indio hills at the east and San Jacinto Mountains at the west . The valley goes to the Salton Sea, a salt water lake, wich is a proof that once the sea advanced into the valley
Eddy and Maria took us to eat ribs, at Babe's BBQ.
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Our first night, after all those ribbs and special home made ale, we went to visit The Living Desert Zoo& Gardens Palm Springs, with Claire and with Eddy. This was my room: 
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The next day 24dec. we had lunch at a little place on El Paseo the Rodeio Drive of Palm Springs, when the sun was setting we headed back to Rancho Mirage. Palm Springs is a place where people retire, with more than 100 golf courses everything is built for leisure, relax, and a good time. And if you belong to Eddy and Maria's group of friends... you can always enjoy great cooking.
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. Waiting for the guests we had our private xmas toast.
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The next morning, breakfast and gifts. 
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Yoga toes.
The family picture, and the self portrait with my new white robe.
I read an artical ,Gloria Steinem wrote about teh democratic elections in the United States . The two candidates Clinton and Obama and their chances!
Very important and interesting
.WOMEN ARE NEVER FRONT RUNNERS
Click on the title to read the article
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Ja estou de volta, estou trabalhando, e cansada com a difrerênça horária de 6 horas a menos de LA, mas quero fazer meu diário de viagem. Não é tanto para os leitores mas como lembrança da viagem para mim mesma. Desta vez vai ser em Inglês ja que minha anfitriã,Claire, quer entender também; tentarei fazer bi-lingüe.
The flight from Sao Paulo to Panama promised to be boring, but then again when you don't expect anything, whatever happens is fun. To Panama we flu over the Amazon and that was a surprise, I had no idea of the size of the river. It is huge! Now I don't believe you can see the china wall from the moon... if you can't see the Amazon, which is much bigger, how is it possible to see a tiny wal?
O Vôo de Sao Paulo para Panamá prometia ser chato,por outro lado quando não se espera coisa alguma qualquer coisa que aconteça pode ser divertido. Para chegar até o Panamá voamos por cima do Rio Amazonas e foi surpreendente. Eu não tinha idéia do tamanho , é gigantesco! Ora , eu não acredito que se possa ver o muro da China da lua, mas se isto for possível o Rio amazonas então , que é bem maior...?
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The second part of the trip 2 girls sat next to me and were making an 'around the world' trip, one was from Austria and the other one from Hungaria, they had lot's of stories to tell and they sounded like having a lot of fun. Here is their web site:http://www.backpackermaedels.blogspot.com/
A segubnda parte da viagen 2 garotas sentaram ao meu lado e me contaram que estavam fazendo uma viagem de volta ao mundo uma era da Austria a outra da Hungria tinham um monte de história para contar , vejam no site acima.
The plane had an hour delay and we had to wait 1 hour to get our suit cases... poor Claire standing outside, at very cold, LAX : waiting for me..
A viagem teve uma hora de atraso na saida, e tivemos que esperar por mais de uma hora pelas malas...coitada da Claire esperando la fora no frio de LAX .
"Cool Claire"
But finally I came out and we went to Claire's place where I would be home for 19 days. Claire lives in a very nice house, at Toluca lake at the very beginning of the Valley. It is a nice neighbourhood, with little houses and gardens and nice side walks, the neighbourhood has a 60's look to it , Claire tels me storys about when she was little, going on her bike, to eat hotdogs at the same hotdog place we went after a walk.
Claire vive num bairro chamado Toluca Lake super sossegado um povoado no meio do buchicho de Los Angeles, o ambiente é o mesmo dos anos 60 Claire me levou numa lanchonete de Hotdogs que era a mesma que ela frequentava de bicicleta , quando criança
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Here in São Paulo nothing stays the same, the city is constantly changing. When I mooved here 15 years ago I was surrounded by little houses with little family businesses, now my neighbours are 3 hotels and sofisticated french restaurants. and it is impossible to drive here, it takes 20 minutes to go around the block. So seeing how the "American dream" can come true and exists for a lot of people, gives me hope and reduces a bit of my growing skepticism.
Aqui em São Paulo nada fica igual, tudo muda. Quando me mudei paracá 15 anos atrás eu estava rodeada de casinhas com pequenas negócios familiares, agora meus vizinhos são 3 hoteis e restaurantes sofisticados, além do mais é imposível dirigir por aqui leva 20 minutos para dar a volta ao quarteirão. Então , vendo que o sonho americano pode ser possível para muitas pessoas, me da certa esperançae reduz minha crescente descrença no futuro.
But back to my trip.
Our first assignment was to meet with Solange who lives at Marina del Rey, a beautifull place, I had a package for Solange and wanted to get that done before I started with other site seeing. Solange lives at Marina del Rey and represents several Brasilian artists. After lunch we headed for the Santa Monica Pier 10 minutes away from Marina del Rey.
Nosso primeiro compromisso foi encontrar com Solange que vive na lindíssima Marina del Rey, eu trouxe um pacote paea ela e queria resolver estas pendências antes de começar a "passear". Solange vive em Marina del rey e trabalha representando vários artistas Brasileiros. Depois do almoço fomos até o Snata Monica Pier, que fica 10 minutos dali.
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Nachos.WOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!
The first day we went shopping, and that is always fun specialy when sale were up to 70% reductions! At night we visited Candy Cane Lane And then we went with her friends Kim and John who co-own a boat, that sits in theire street, with Lary, to Long Beach to see little Venice and the houses with the xmas lights.
No primeitro dia fomos as compras o que é sempre divertido e especialmente quando as liquidações chegam até 70% de desconto! A noite fomos até Candy Lane para ver as casas ilumunadas. Depois fomos com Kim e John que dividem uma lanch com Larry, que fica estacionada na frente da casa deles, até Long Beach para ver o que chamam de pequena Veneza com as casas també todas iluminadas.
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.Candy Cane Lane, virtual trip
So now to Kim and John, Claire's wonderfull friends who invited me for a tour os "little Venice" at the Long Beach's marinas. It was freezing cold on the water but Kim distributed comforters to all of us and we brought a couple of bottles of champagne so it was special, fun beautifull , with the sunset behind the Catalina Island, unforgetable!
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. Sunset at Long Beach California.
After joining with friends Larry and his "entourage" , we toured the canals drinking champagne and throwing candy at every other boat and ended at the Crab Pot restaurant.
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After some champagne , the Crab Pot seemes like a medieval restaurant where the food was thrown on the table and the instruments used to eat were a hammer , a piece of wood and lots of paper towels, so hammering away and after lots of sucking we ate almost half a dozen of king crabs from Alaska!!