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Well, i guess it might be a good idea for em to write another
report before i go one my one month trip to northeastern Brasil.
In my last report I left off just after my week long
trip to Pantanal/Bonito, so here I go.
After the Pantanal trip I finished my last two weeks of
school and had finally made it to summer vaction!!, yup, no school to
mid febuary. Shortly after school was my 17 birthday. One the day of
my birthday I went to the large mall and had lunch in a nice
restaurant with some friends, then when we returned home I walked into
the back yard was at shock when I saw all my friends, waiting for
me!!! From then one it was nothing but partying and swimming.
Just a week after my b-day I took a short trip with about 14 other
exchange students to Guarda do Embau. It is a Beach located about 40
km south of florinopolis. I must say this beach was one of the most
beautiful beaches ive seen in the world. The beach was located right
at the mouth of a river so the water wasn’t crystal clear, but what
was amazing was how the river ran right behind the beach, forcing you
to take a boat or a swim to even get to the beach. On another small
beach, this beach turned out to be the more popular, there was plenty
of room for beach soccer, which me a Mexican exhcnage and a german
exhcnage and our Rotarian chaperone played against brasilians, and won
every single game!! After playing soccer in the heat, we ran up to a
small bar right on the beach (which was actually a little boat house
some years ago), and colded off with some pastel (braislian food) and
refreashments. Well for how beautiful the area was I really wanted to
stay long but the trip was only 3 days…well actually five but it take
like 15 hours to drive there.
After returning from the trip things went back to normal, except
for the fact that I don’t have school. So my days have been full of
friends, capoeira, and futebol. From December 15-17 was the 2nd
encontro internacional de Capoeira, in other words capoeriaistas from
all of the world…literally, Spain, USA, Austria, England, Portugal
along with other places in Brasil came to my city and held rodas
throughout the city, a roda is a circle of people with people playing
instruments for capoeira and two people fighting in the middle. They
were held in the downtown shopping district, right off the main street
(its not called main street), and in an amphtheater. I was able to
fight in all the rodas, and in the final one I received my first belt
for capoeira!!,
As another week went by, it was getting closer to x-mas time but
man it didn’t feel like it, not only was it getting really hot but the
only building with really beautiful x-mas decorations burnt down, not
joking, the people most of but 1000$ into the decorations and they
didn’t last to even2 weeks before x-mas. Well finally when it was the
23rd my host mom finally dicided to but out the x-mas tree,
so I wne tinto my room and grabbed a little ornimant my mom in America
gave me for my x-mas tree here, it was a melted snowman and it said
florida snowman.. btu man was I thinking it should have said florida/brasilian,
cause I don’t think this heat is going away any time soon.
Well the day of x-mas eve came and my host mom said nobody would be
coming over till 7pm, so I go out with friends for the day, as times
rolling by I finally realized it was already 8pm so I rushed home and
to my thought nobady was there, the first person didn’t come till
about 10 15pm. I must say though once all the family members were here
it was a fun ngiht, right at midnight we all held hand sand the said a
prayer and after everyone hugged everyone, that took awhile
considering there was about 40 people over. Then we opened gifts, I
recived a pillow with a brasilian flag on it and a cup for caparinhas….(no
comment on what that is). The party finally ended at around 4am, well
that’s when the last person left, so with my fashion I went to bed at
around 6am.
On x-mas day I was woken up at around 2pm by the sounds of little
kids running through the house and jumping into the pool. So I walked
out of my room and saw everyone had returned for another party, which
was cool cause I could go swimming!!,
Well that about sums up this last month and a half, don’t want to
bore u anymore with my bad writing skills and what not so..
Hope everyone is doing great!!
All of January I will be headed to the northeastern parts of brasil,
so after that I will have another lengthy report ahahah,
Abraços e beijos
Boa sorte para tudos
Bjorn Syse |
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