I've even helped James on a few occasions. Before we left Porto Vehlo we gave Graca 30 reais to give to Mario for electricity. I have to say communication problems are universal. Mario asked Adulcimar to ask us to chip in and Adulcimar, in turn, asked Graca to speak to us. When James spoke to Mario he insisted that we not pay him, so we had to give the money to Graca, to give to Adulcimar to give to Mario.
Interestingly things are cheaper here in the resort.
In Porto Vehlo things were priced at 1 or 2 reais. Cents were only used on things with higher prices than that. Here things are priced less than one real, sometimes considerably. Here we have seen it for as little as 30 cents. Food is cheaper here in general.