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despite the corruption, danger, general grimy factor, mugging, guns, etc. i would rather be in rio than anywhere else right now
i miss my favela, i miss the people id see everyday, i miss my friends in the house, i miss feeling like an actual adult and be able to buy alcohol, taking the kombi, having my kombi boys wave everyday, the mototaxi, my kids, football games, drunken nights, lapa, democraticas, dancing to samba, the gorgeous brazilian men. etc. etc.
rio is by far my favorite place to be. you get over certain things, and as scary as it sounds, seeing a man whose been shot dying on the side of the road didnt really shake me up or faze me at all. i know that sounds creepy but i guess i got used to things.
i have this whole year so i think its important for me to make something positive out of all of it. i want to raise money for my kids so that we can actually have a roof, and maybe a community room with computers with internet, thats my ultimate goal. id also like to donate lots of instruments to daniel's ciads program in rio, this man dedicates his life without pay to keeping the kids off the street and teaching them guitar, etc etc.
its weird being back, i watched this discovery program about rio that i watched them film while i was there and i have to admit i got a little teary. i really love rio, i miss my brazilian family there, nazi and her husband and their babies gustavo and gabriel and yasmim. i should have agreed to go on a roadtrip of brazil with them but i dont think i could handle gustavo and gabriel all that time.
i also love that a. she asked me to go on a road trip and that b. that we were able to communicate with my little portuguese and her zero english, but she told me shed learn english if i learn portuguese while im gone.
i also am gonna start taking portuguese lessons, cause when i go back in the spring for about 3 months i want to be fluent.
its the brasiliero! i miss going to botafogo matches but i found a way to watch it on tv
leaving rio was a fucking nightmare. you need to go through the military police to get out but they forgot to give me the sheet to fill out when i checked my bags so i waited in line for an hour only to have a policeman scream at me in portuguese and then go back and have to go into the police office because apparently the man had stamped my thing even though i wasnt allowed to get out of rio, but a gorgeous english speaking police man helped me...then they threw out all my chanel and dior make up even though it was fine coming in and then our flight got delayed while we were all in the airplane cause there was a person they deemed unsafe to have on the plane so they had to get all their luggage off. guh.
i miss my favela, i miss the people id see everyday, i miss my friends in the house, i miss feeling like an actual adult and be able to buy alcohol, taking the kombi, having my kombi boys wave everyday, the mototaxi, my kids, football games, drunken nights, lapa, democraticas, dancing to samba, the gorgeous brazilian men. etc. etc.
rio is by far my favorite place to be. you get over certain things, and as scary as it sounds, seeing a man whose been shot dying on the side of the road didnt really shake me up or faze me at all. i know that sounds creepy but i guess i got used to things.
i have this whole year so i think its important for me to make something positive out of all of it. i want to raise money for my kids so that we can actually have a roof, and maybe a community room with computers with internet, thats my ultimate goal. id also like to donate lots of instruments to daniel's ciads program in rio, this man dedicates his life without pay to keeping the kids off the street and teaching them guitar, etc etc.
its weird being back, i watched this discovery program about rio that i watched them film while i was there and i have to admit i got a little teary. i really love rio, i miss my brazilian family there, nazi and her husband and their babies gustavo and gabriel and yasmim. i should have agreed to go on a roadtrip of brazil with them but i dont think i could handle gustavo and gabriel all that time.
i also love that a. she asked me to go on a road trip and that b. that we were able to communicate with my little portuguese and her zero english, but she told me shed learn english if i learn portuguese while im gone.
i also am gonna start taking portuguese lessons, cause when i go back in the spring for about 3 months i want to be fluent.
its the brasiliero! i miss going to botafogo matches but i found a way to watch it on tv
leaving rio was a fucking nightmare. you need to go through the military police to get out but they forgot to give me the sheet to fill out when i checked my bags so i waited in line for an hour only to have a policeman scream at me in portuguese and then go back and have to go into the police office because apparently the man had stamped my thing even though i wasnt allowed to get out of rio, but a gorgeous english speaking police man helped me...then they threw out all my chanel and dior make up even though it was fine coming in and then our flight got delayed while we were all in the airplane cause there was a person they deemed unsafe to have on the plane so they had to get all their luggage off. guh.