Speechless

Oh what can I even say about the past week. Class ended on Friday, yay, I have a whole week of summer vacation! Well Friday was also the start of Carnaval, well the official start anyway. People have started celebrating last week and decorations went up all around town two weeks ago, but still. So Thursday, we had a night out at a local bar where we have made friends. They have live bands every night and I really love going and dancing. Friday we had class then went to the beach, climbed rocks and went out that night to a costume party! It was very exhausting. Well I had no costumes, so I wore black pants and my long black shirt. Well Jonathan was dressed up as Beckham, so I lost the pants and was Posh! It was pretty hilarious. I even wore heels (which I hide under the couch ten minutes into the night). Saturday is apparently the day where all the guys dress like women. So we went to Centro and watched tons of men in dresses parade around and dance. It was great. Then we (Sam, Karly, and I) met up with Rodrigo and Jonathan and of course they were in dresses and took us to another part of Centro where there was the largest block party I have ever been to. Hundreds of people, in every direction from me and all the men were wearing a dress. It was a little overwhelming, to say the least, especially when it started pouring down rain. That night however was the night that we danced in the parade. That deserves it own blog, lets just say we watched the sun rise on our bus ride home, where Karly, Sam, and I got our bathing suits, ate breakfast and went to the beach. We ate lunch got ice cream, then met up with the boys and went to a friend’s house near the beach, she had a pool. We hung out at the pool, ate dinner, then went out, it was all very exhausting, there was a group of like 8 of us so we danced the night away. I also learned that no sleep makes everything in the world hilarious! I made it home around 3 and slept soooo well. Monday and Tuesday I laid low and watched movies and ate brigadeos (the greatest desert south of the equator)(other than white chocolate pizza with strawberries). I introduced Karly to The goonies, the greatest movie ever (I brought it with me) and all was well. All in all Carnaval is extremely exciting and the single most exhausting week of my life! I am very glad and sad it is over.




In the Photos: 1. Our friend at Chopp De Gus, 2. the block party (that was only in one direction, i had that many people in every direction), 3. rock climbing at the beach (the water was cold so...), 4. Us dancing the night away at DiVinos, 5. The queen of Carnaval after trying to teach us the samba, 6. Us attempting to samba during class from a hilarious video