JA
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12:49:57 pm on February 26, 2007 |
It’s Monday, back to “normal” life in Rio. Carnaval week-end is over and man, it is everything they say it is.
It all started with the whole city shutting down. No more businesses opened. Everything came to a halt. Then it was a myriad of street parties. Each block probably had a party going on. The streets were so filled with people, I kept wondering where they had appeared from.
The heat also decided to increase in intensity which made it ideal to spend the restful moments at the beach enjoying the water.
Then disaster struck again… I took a bus ride to the “Jesus Statue” that lasted exactly 45 mins. It was in an air conditioned bus that was probably set at 15 degrees. Outside it was over 35 so the drop and increase in temperature did not please my body. That left me with a nasty cold that has lasted a week so far. I guess that I am pretty sensitive to temperatures. The cold I have is kind of weird… i am always exhausted and the only thing I feel like doing is just eat and sleep.
But, in sickness and health, I am here to have fun and the cold is slowing me down but not stopping me. I still did go hang out with some friends on the week-end and on Sunday night, I was taken to a nightclub in the North Zone (a so-called dangerous zone but I saw nothing to warrant that reputation).It was a party where they play “Black Music” which in Brazil means RnB, Hip-Hop, Funk, Soul and any other type of music that’s from African-American origin. It was a crazy party. I had my camera but like I say, I will become the next Pope and I need to make it hard for dirt diggers to find anything to wreck my street cred. I did meet a couple of people and I received such a warm welcome that I was overwhelmed. Everyone wanted to introduce me to their friends and with my inexistent Portuguese and their limited English, the conversations were a little bit comical.
I can’t believe that it’s been almost two months I have been in Brazil and I have yet to explore the country. It’s crazy insane here and I love it. I just have to keep up cos sometimes I just get overwhelmed with the much going ons here.
This week should be nuts too especially as I’ll get to go to a football match. Just for the kicks of it, I want to wear the French jersey and see the reaction of the people 🙂
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