When we arrived in Manous we had to wait for about five hours for all the others. I passed the time by throwing a bouncy ball at the wall. When everybody arrived we went to Presidente Figueiredo.
At that first city we visited something called cachoeira which is like a natural pool. There was one with a diving dock which everyone doing flips off it. There is a video of me trying to do a flip but failing. There was another which was pretty fast moving so we were able to slide for about 10 - 20 meters. The other one was kind of deep into the forest so we had to hike there, and we also passed through a cave made of sand. The cave had some big ass spiders and bats to. At the pool there was a waterfall were you could shower but it was falling very heavly. The hotel had a pool table just like all hotels, but it was missing a ball and you had to pay 50 cents to play.
After Presidente Figueiredo we went to Manaus. In Manaus we stayed in a 5 star hotel, but it didn't have all the formal people there because it is the Amazon. This hotel had pool tables that were about $5000 each and it was free to play. In Manaus we went to a couple zoos and saw a jaguar. We saw a show about the mythical story of the bull, and there was some very pretty dancers there. The zoos had a lot of animals we didn't see in the forest because there were people screaming everytime they saw a spider. Our hotel also had a zoo and a nice pool.
We then spent 4 nights on a boat, and it was the best part of the trip. We slept in hammocks which was awesome because I sleep better in a hammock than in a bed. On the first day we walked on a bridge thing and saw a couple monkeys and birds. Underneith the bridge the water was pretty deep but in dry season our guides said that is just dirt there. We visited a indian village and participated in a ritual with them. We did a hike in the forest one day which was fun. There was two guys had stayed 3 days in the forest and they said they were going to stay another 3 days. On this hike we walked with water up to our chest and and some sort of insect. The insect was delicious. We also tried to climb a tree, but everybody in our group failed. The guys who staying in the forest did it easily. We also swam with wild dolphins which was awesome. We went fishing for piranha, but my boat only cought 4. Later that night we went looking for gators and found two little guys to take pictures with. We visited two other communities and played soccer with one of them. On the last night we had a party/bbq (the two are about the same thing), and then went home.
I would like to say thank you to all of our guides and Terra Brasil.
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I went to a wedding, and it was the first time I wore a dress shirt here. There was a cerimony just like in Canada. After the cerimony the was a party and super. I walked around talking to all the people I knew and then I had some super. After eating my host brother and I went to the birthday party of our friend Ana. It was a good party and the was lots of people. I left somewhat early because I was almost collapsed with exhaustion.
The next day we returned to the same place as the wedding party for lunch. There was a lot of people there too. After lunch everybody came to watch the big championship game between Ituano and Santos. Most of the people there cheered for Ituano just to make the Santos fans mad (Ituano has very few fans here).
During the Easter holidays we spent most of the time at the cabin of our friend Adriano. We watched São Paulo win 3-0 with Boto Fogo. On Sunday the pub had a great show of rock which I went to. It was nice to find out more about brazilian rock. My cellphone now has a lot of brazilian music.
On Saturday we had a capoeira practice with people from other cities, because a lot of people came to Guaracai to visit family during the holidays. It was nice to see all the people there, and the capoeira with all the different people was high quality.
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On Aprils Fools day our main guide, one of the monitors, two of my friends, and I pulled a prank. Since we are not allowed to drink on Rotary trips we decided to make it look like my friend and I was drunk, on drugs and smoking. They bought one beer and poured it all over my hair and clothes, and then I layed down on the bathroom floor with my pilsner blanket pretending to be passed out. I also had the beer bottle on the side and a smoke in my fingers.
We then waited for the other monitor and the rotary champerone. When they came my friend was on the top of the bed dancing a famous dance in Brazil called leppo leppo. My other friend was curled up with a blanket looking scared and saying that he told us not to drink. The rotary person then found me and stomped on my foot while calling us all idiots and saying we were all going to miss the best part of the trip. Later when she found out it was a prank she called us sons of bitches.
I also forgot they left me behind in a museum in Curitiba.
At the talent show Kevin (Tawain and Canada), Martin (Mexico), Jesse (USA), and I did capoeira. Jesse and I were the only ones who train regularly in our cities. Jessie trains 5 days a week, which is a lot more than me.
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This will contain a blog post about a Terra Brasil Trip I went on.
The current version of that post is at https://kodybrazil.blogspot.com/2014/04/south-american-adventure.html
I haven't written for awhile so there is going to be a lot of stuff that I am going to forget.
There was a going away party for Antonio and Bruna, and it doubled as a birthday party for Maykon. Lots of interact went, and there was lots of meat on the BBQ so it was a good time.
Interact club of Valparariso had a party of ice cream. I ate 10 cups, but my friend said I should have ate 15. I agree with him, but my performance level was down. There was also a lot of dancing at this party.
During carnaval my friend Andre had his birthday party. It was a great party with a lot of brigadeiro and a cake. There was also a lot of interact at this party too. Later we all walked to the town square to participate in carnaval. There was a lot of people at carnaval, but my friends all said that carnaval Guaracai is weak.
I went to the town square every night that weekend. There was a lot of dancing and loud music. There was always some people from Interact or Rotaract. One night the mexican who lives in Mirandopolis was there too.
There was a couple other birthdays, but they were for young kids. Thier kid birthday parties are about 10 times bigger than our kid parties, and they have more adults than kids. The entire family goes to the party, and there is usually a big buffet line. I would estimate about 100 or 150 people are at these parties.
My host dad and I watched the team Canada win the gold medal, and we cheered by wearing our Montreal Canadian jerseys.
I got my foriegn identification card last week. It only took about 5 months to be proccessed.
On March 19 I will be going on the South American Adventure and after that I will be going on the Amazon tour. It should a good month.
This blog is a re-post from the following link:https://kodybrazil.blogspot.com/2014/03/lots-of-stuff.html