LETS GET EXHAUSTED #134
I left the house in BH at 4h15 am in the morning to go take two buses... During that night I had been half sleeping and half watching a hockey game... Slovakia against Russia... I think... I arrived at the airport at 6h20 am went on my plane and arrive in Fortaleza at 10h50 am (it was actually 11h50 in BH time...) It had been almost 9 hours since I had kind of slept and the day was just starting - once again I expected great moments to come!
I met Amanda and we went to a beach - it was great to be back in a city close to a beach! We had some coconut water - that we drink in the coconut itself - which makes it the heaviest drink in the world... Later this night, I was Amanda's victim to acompany her to go see a dance performance... Until then, I really trusted her, but this proved me wrong - I luckily slept for some parts of the show - it was just... too strange for me (and for her) to enjoy it...
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HOMMAGE A UN CHIEN #2
Capito (Amanda's dog) looks really cute on a photo but in real it is a whole different story - I tried to play with her the first day but now I do everything in my power to stay away from her - she jumps on me, bites me, she even hit me with her head once - Zidane's style!
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BEACH PARK or Huge Slides in a Small World
On Friday we went together to the water park called... Beach Park. Everytime we saw one slide (?) we had no other choice than using the super famous Caro's (Campos) WwoooaAAaooowW! It was great even though the water was kind of warm... The slides were just great! There was one called INSANO that is 41 meter high - the we wanted to keep for the end... Meanwhile, we tried some others - among which some were also really high... Before trying one, we tried to read the expression on the face of the people that had just tried it - but there was not much to read and we didn't really know why... It was only after we had tried it that we could understand why the people seemed to feel nothing - they were - just like us - traumatized! The things are super high and they go at some really high speeds!
We took a break - I had actually survived to the first sun attack in Ouro Preto - and it was trying to kill me for the second time... so I needed this break... Amanda and I shared different stories about the fact that we lived in a small world... So it was not a coincidence when - as we were walking - I recognized a face - and at the same time, this same girl recognized Amanda first and then me! It was just crazy - it was another student that had studied in the same language school - but who was not even from this city... and even if she had been... what would have been the odds to meet her? I was totally shocked - and probably made a face that would have given me the two points that I needed to get the same score than Andree in the final Quebec Sign Language exam!
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The SUN revenge in a HIPPIE city (with two identical syllabs)
On the Saturday morning, we left for a city called Jericoacoara! I love the name before getting there - but I also loved the city at first sight! Even the way to get there was really fun - shared between a bus and a Jardinheira - which was a kind of 4x4 bus with no window that drove us to the small citycenter... or city... actually, it is a city with just a center... so no city... just a center... and no suburbs...
I left the house in BH at 4h15 am in the morning to go take two buses... During that night I had been half sleeping and half watching a hockey game... Slovakia against Russia... I think... I arrived at the airport at 6h20 am went on my plane and arrive in Fortaleza at 10h50 am (it was actually 11h50 in BH time...) It had been almost 9 hours since I had kind of slept and the day was just starting - once again I expected great moments to come!
I met Amanda and we went to a beach - it was great to be back in a city close to a beach! We had some coconut water - that we drink in the coconut itself - which makes it the heaviest drink in the world... Later this night, I was Amanda's victim to acompany her to go see a dance performance... Until then, I really trusted her, but this proved me wrong - I luckily slept for some parts of the show - it was just... too strange for me (and for her) to enjoy it...
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HOMMAGE A UN CHIEN #2
Capito (Amanda's dog) looks really cute on a photo but in real it is a whole different story - I tried to play with her the first day but now I do everything in my power to stay away from her - she jumps on me, bites me, she even hit me with her head once - Zidane's style!
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BEACH PARK or Huge Slides in a Small World
On Friday we went together to the water park called... Beach Park. Everytime we saw one slide (?) we had no other choice than using the super famous Caro's (Campos) WwoooaAAaooowW! It was great even though the water was kind of warm... The slides were just great! There was one called INSANO that is 41 meter high - the we wanted to keep for the end... Meanwhile, we tried some others - among which some were also really high... Before trying one, we tried to read the expression on the face of the people that had just tried it - but there was not much to read and we didn't really know why... It was only after we had tried it that we could understand why the people seemed to feel nothing - they were - just like us - traumatized! The things are super high and they go at some really high speeds!
We took a break - I had actually survived to the first sun attack in Ouro Preto - and it was trying to kill me for the second time... so I needed this break... Amanda and I shared different stories about the fact that we lived in a small world... So it was not a coincidence when - as we were walking - I recognized a face - and at the same time, this same girl recognized Amanda first and then me! It was just crazy - it was another student that had studied in the same language school - but who was not even from this city... and even if she had been... what would have been the odds to meet her? I was totally shocked - and probably made a face that would have given me the two points that I needed to get the same score than Andree in the final Quebec Sign Language exam!
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The SUN revenge in a HIPPIE city (with two identical syllabs)
On the Saturday morning, we left for a city called Jericoacoara! I love the name before getting there - but I also loved the city at first sight! Even the way to get there was really fun - shared between a bus and a Jardinheira - which was a kind of 4x4 bus with no window that drove us to the small citycenter... or city... actually, it is a city with just a center... so no city... just a center... and no suburbs...
We arrived in the afternoon - rested for a while - went to get some food in a resto by the beach... The center by day was amazing - the ground naturally covered with sand - only young and beautiful people - some shops selling stuff for the beach and the sports that come with it and some cute little restaurants... No cars, only boggeys, horses, donkeys and dogs... and a lot of music coming from everywhere! After eating, we went in the water - in the waves waiting for the sunset...
We had been told that we had to go watch the sunset from the top of a sand dune... So had everybody else... While we were standing by the beach - waiting for the wind to finish drying us - we could see that tens of people were already climbing the dune to get the best seats to watch the sunset... So we went to join them - there were maybe 200 people waiting for the sunset - from where it was supposed to be the most beautiful - it was kind of funny - as if we were all part of the same sect - and attracted on the top of the dune by some extraterrestrial force - but it was great! At the end everybody went down the -very steep - dune together - each of them with a unique technique... Soleil Gratuit - Daniel Belanger
After the sunset, we went on the beach - and drank a few drinks - all made of fresh fruits - and condensed milk (I LOVE CONDENSED MILK) and finished this perfect day eating pasteis and listening to some classic songs sang by another hippie brasilian guy... The center by night is totally different and the atmosphere couldn't be more peaceful and relaxing... Music, water, cachaca, sand, the same young and beautiful people, everything...
The next day, in the morning, we met the guy that we had contracted to take us on a boggey to different places... At the first stop, Amanda asked me (using english words - because she didn't know them in french) if I wanted to see seahorses... this was the activity... but I thought that she was asking if I wanted to see horses... so I asked her if we were going to ride horses and she said yes... there was a misunderstanding... because we went in a big canoe and I was still thinking about horses - so I thought we would cross the river - but we didn't... So I asked Amanda what was going on and she said that we were going to see some seahorses... and then my expectations got much smaller... after half an hour the guy who controlled the boat found one seahorse that he put in a bowl for us... some people took some pictures of a seahorse in a bowl... then he found a second one that he put in a bottle and some people took some pictures of a seahorse in a bottle - and then he put the two seahorses in the same bottle and some people took some pictures of two seahorses in a bottle... a yellowinsh one and a pregnant male... I didn't... Later, the guy tried to show something to us in the water and everybody went on the same side of the boat - I think that Amanda and I only noticed that we had almost fallen in the water... the other people stood on the same side until they could see grey crabs on grey rocks... and they took pictures of the grey crabs on the grey rocks... and I didn't...
The next stop was to get some drinks... There was a small shack, some donkeys and a family of pigs... and a dog that clearly thought that he was part of the pig family...
Later, we stopped somewhere... a city called Old Tatajuba... or maybe just Tatajuba... a city that we couldn't see because the sand had completely covered it... I think I saw some people taking some pictures of Tatajuba but I didn't... There was absolutely nothing... Then we went to the New Tatajuba where there were a few houses, a church and a park in center of which there was supposed to be a big TV for the people of the village but they never installed the big TV... they would have watched Viver a Vida - my favorite brasilian soap opera - some people asked me if it was for the actresses - who knows - and BBB - Big Brother Brasil - I knew that Elenita would be eliminated... I didn't call though...
Then there were a few boggeys behind us - ours stopped - but all the other ones continued their way - I thought of Turistas - Charlie and my kidney - but our guide only wanted to take some cool funky pictures of us... the kind when you hold the sun in your hand or you drink the Niagara Falls or you have a finger on the Eiffel Tower or you pretend to be the Cristo Redentor with your arms wide open... So we were supposed to be in a place with giant rocks with super cool shapes... Ask me for the pictures! You will laugh for sure!
We finally arrived at a lake where we could rest and eat and drink and swim and where the Sun tried to take his revenge on me... So we ate, we drank and we swam... I also rested in a hammock (called jelajoli in amharic - isn't it a pretty word?) and the Sun started his revenge...
On our way back, we were both sitting at the back of the boggey - the face and the hair in the wind (and in the killing sun) wearing our sunglasses because we were still either on the beach or on the dunes - both made of sand - the mouth closed - because sand is not the best type of food for humans... The thing is that the feeling was extremely great - but the consequences on me were not as good... We arrived in our pousada - I fell asleep in a matter of a few seconds - and woke up a couple of hours later...
The last activities of the day were looking at our sunburns - I (still) have some on the knees - feeling dizzy - trying to control my headache - and trying to go to the Pedra Fudrada - another attraction that if we don't see it - it is as if we had not been to Jericoacoara... We half succeeded since we arrived there when everything was dark and the tide was very high so we couldn't really see it well... so we went back to the village - ordered a pizza from pizza banana and watched a horrible hockey game - Canada vs USA during which the best moments were the comments from the... commentator... Acorda meu filho... Wake up son (talking obviously to a player of the sleeping team)... It didn't work though...
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Others...
I was EXTREMELY suprised and happy to see that Charlie the Unicorn was famous in Brasil!
I also took some very important decisions - I decided that my favorite brasilian beer was Skol and that my favorite dessert was Tapioca de brigadeiro!
We watched the movie Once once but I'd watch it twice... it is really good!
We had been told that we had to go watch the sunset from the top of a sand dune... So had everybody else... While we were standing by the beach - waiting for the wind to finish drying us - we could see that tens of people were already climbing the dune to get the best seats to watch the sunset... So we went to join them - there were maybe 200 people waiting for the sunset - from where it was supposed to be the most beautiful - it was kind of funny - as if we were all part of the same sect - and attracted on the top of the dune by some extraterrestrial force - but it was great! At the end everybody went down the -very steep - dune together - each of them with a unique technique... Soleil Gratuit - Daniel Belanger
After the sunset, we went on the beach - and drank a few drinks - all made of fresh fruits - and condensed milk (I LOVE CONDENSED MILK) and finished this perfect day eating pasteis and listening to some classic songs sang by another hippie brasilian guy... The center by night is totally different and the atmosphere couldn't be more peaceful and relaxing... Music, water, cachaca, sand, the same young and beautiful people, everything...
The next day, in the morning, we met the guy that we had contracted to take us on a boggey to different places... At the first stop, Amanda asked me (using english words - because she didn't know them in french) if I wanted to see seahorses... this was the activity... but I thought that she was asking if I wanted to see horses... so I asked her if we were going to ride horses and she said yes... there was a misunderstanding... because we went in a big canoe and I was still thinking about horses - so I thought we would cross the river - but we didn't... So I asked Amanda what was going on and she said that we were going to see some seahorses... and then my expectations got much smaller... after half an hour the guy who controlled the boat found one seahorse that he put in a bowl for us... some people took some pictures of a seahorse in a bowl... then he found a second one that he put in a bottle and some people took some pictures of a seahorse in a bottle - and then he put the two seahorses in the same bottle and some people took some pictures of two seahorses in a bottle... a yellowinsh one and a pregnant male... I didn't... Later, the guy tried to show something to us in the water and everybody went on the same side of the boat - I think that Amanda and I only noticed that we had almost fallen in the water... the other people stood on the same side until they could see grey crabs on grey rocks... and they took pictures of the grey crabs on the grey rocks... and I didn't...
The next stop was to get some drinks... There was a small shack, some donkeys and a family of pigs... and a dog that clearly thought that he was part of the pig family...
Later, we stopped somewhere... a city called Old Tatajuba... or maybe just Tatajuba... a city that we couldn't see because the sand had completely covered it... I think I saw some people taking some pictures of Tatajuba but I didn't... There was absolutely nothing... Then we went to the New Tatajuba where there were a few houses, a church and a park in center of which there was supposed to be a big TV for the people of the village but they never installed the big TV... they would have watched Viver a Vida - my favorite brasilian soap opera - some people asked me if it was for the actresses - who knows - and BBB - Big Brother Brasil - I knew that Elenita would be eliminated... I didn't call though...
Then there were a few boggeys behind us - ours stopped - but all the other ones continued their way - I thought of Turistas - Charlie and my kidney - but our guide only wanted to take some cool funky pictures of us... the kind when you hold the sun in your hand or you drink the Niagara Falls or you have a finger on the Eiffel Tower or you pretend to be the Cristo Redentor with your arms wide open... So we were supposed to be in a place with giant rocks with super cool shapes... Ask me for the pictures! You will laugh for sure!
We finally arrived at a lake where we could rest and eat and drink and swim and where the Sun tried to take his revenge on me... So we ate, we drank and we swam... I also rested in a hammock (called jelajoli in amharic - isn't it a pretty word?) and the Sun started his revenge...
On our way back, we were both sitting at the back of the boggey - the face and the hair in the wind (and in the killing sun) wearing our sunglasses because we were still either on the beach or on the dunes - both made of sand - the mouth closed - because sand is not the best type of food for humans... The thing is that the feeling was extremely great - but the consequences on me were not as good... We arrived in our pousada - I fell asleep in a matter of a few seconds - and woke up a couple of hours later...
The last activities of the day were looking at our sunburns - I (still) have some on the knees - feeling dizzy - trying to control my headache - and trying to go to the Pedra Fudrada - another attraction that if we don't see it - it is as if we had not been to Jericoacoara... We half succeeded since we arrived there when everything was dark and the tide was very high so we couldn't really see it well... so we went back to the village - ordered a pizza from pizza banana and watched a horrible hockey game - Canada vs USA during which the best moments were the comments from the... commentator... Acorda meu filho... Wake up son (talking obviously to a player of the sleeping team)... It didn't work though...
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Others...
I was EXTREMELY suprised and happy to see that Charlie the Unicorn was famous in Brasil!
I also took some very important decisions - I decided that my favorite brasilian beer was Skol and that my favorite dessert was Tapioca de brigadeiro!
We watched the movie Once once but I'd watch it twice... it is really good!