We left on Thursday morning and arrived around lunchtime. Long hours on the first night were included (we stayed up until 5 o’clock in the morning once!) The second night we just stayed up till 1 o’clock. Not as bad as least.
I got to see Lucas, former classmate of mine from last year, staying there as well. He’s still as smiley and clingy as ever, though Paula says he has matured a lot. I still can’t get to his clingy habits. It’s strange.
I got to meet a friend of Cristina’s, Marcus. (He’s totally into the Final Fantasy series.) He’s the first guy friend of Cristina that I actually was able to come to like. He joked like any guy would, but he still was polite and more than that, not tense around me. Either that, or it was just me that wasn’t tense around someone new for once! He also didn't make a big deal of the fact that I'm not very talkative, which most people tend to make some joke out of or bug me about it. Funny that he seems to be a big fan of Evanescence, and even wore a shirt of the lead singer.
We walked a lot. The streets of the town are mostly made out of stone. I was kind of surprised at how far you could walk without really worrying about assaults or anything.
It has the cutest town square, too. It has around the first half of the square, vines of flowers hanging along these wooden planks of something. And of course, it has a church in the middle. Beyond the square is the beach, I think.
Last night was sort of wild. People at the square, or just people in general, if they had the chance, wouldn’t even be shy at all, to simply stare. You know when you heard from your parents that it isn’t polite to stare? Well, they forgot that advice. Or they never heard of it. Because they were completely like : “I don’t care if it’s obvious, I’m gonna stare!” Seriously. I didn’t no where to look at first. The floor?
Another wild thing was while we went to drop off some movies, somewhere down one of the streets, we passed by a bar or something. They all stared like idiots, the people sitting there, but I ignored it. Then, all of a sudden, after our group finally passes, the group of guys there start howling. Literally. I thought it was hilarious and yet crazy at the same time. Like… where was their pride?!
It was all fun in the end, though. But I still think some of the people there are kind of wild. Like this guy who was sort of a friend of Cristina’s from her school, had the nerve (I mean the N-E-R-V-E) to look down her V cut blouse and make a joke about something of her bra. O_o
Talk about crazy.
What else? We played videogames. Although even though I brought some of mine based on request, somehow nobody ended up playing them. Oh well. I also ended up bringing 2 games, among others, with no CD inside, hah.
Not much else I can say, I guess. Good thing I decided to talk about my trip now, instead of tomorrow—that’s when I would really never end up talking about it.
Unfortunately, most of the good pictures of all of us are stuck in Cristina’s camera, so I can only show you the very few pictures that I took in mine, which doesn’t show much.
Oh, we also walked on the beach once, around 4 o’clock. We rode on the back of the jeep, hehe. That was fun. Bummer I didn’t take my camera at that time, ‘cause the sunset was great, and because it was so windy, the sand made some awesome shapes and patterns across the ground. Think of northern lights but on the sand.
Peeps playing videogames.
Hangin' at the square. From left to right:Marcus, Lucas, Paula, Cristina. (Bad picture, I know...)
Paula is model material when she doesn't realize she's being taken pictures of.
Paula and Me.
Paula and Lucas.
Cristina, her little sister Daisy, and their new bikes.
At 4 o'clock we decided to go upstairs and get ready for bed, haha.
Me dad is here to pick us up.
(I found this one, of Cristina's pictures, on the internet just now! :D)
2 said miss mademoiselle:
I am so happy for you!
It sounds like you had a great time at...Paracaru (cool name). I am glad that you stayed up till 4 in the morning 'cause that means you had fun! It's always nice to stay up late with friends.
The videogames sound fun. :D Also, whee with the market! wow, the culture there...Brazil sounds full of culture, like how said there is of course a church in the center, interesting. And the way you described the people at the bar and stuff, reminded me of being in Germany, how people are more wild and free and not so reserved. It definitely is jarring at first and takes getting used to.
Marcus sounds very cool! Casual and not-tense, and go Evanescence! Amy Lee is the main vocalist for Evanescnece, she has a great voice. =3
I wish your pictures were brighter. But so glad there are pics! They all look like nice people. Everytime I see pictures it reminds me again that you are in Brazil, this country so different; everyone speaks Portuguest and whatnot and is dark skinned, they all look Mexican-ish. And you're the only white person. Not to make you feel weird, I'm sure since you've lived there for years you don't even notice and it doesn't really matter, I just noticed it because for me, it would be different. But I am glad you are so happy there and know all these cool people! :D
You should visit Paracaru again. It sounds like you had a great trip! Yay!
heehee, I have another comment I just thought of.
Reading thi spost and seeing your pics makes me remember how awesome it is to hang out with people - new and old friends.
It makes me miss college, lol. I almost can't wait to get back, just for the fact that I get to see friends there! I have friends here, but, they're all busy and stuff...*grouch*
=3 This was a really great post.
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