Saturday, February 21

Which...?

Which one is your favorite?

I loved the elephant on for Tom Maior and their skeleton ones. Tom Maior was my favorite overall, although they weren't favored by the judeges. The judges ranked them in this order (I think...from off the top of my head):

1. Mancha Verde
2.Vila Maria
3. Rosas de Ouro
4. X-9 Paulista
5. Tom Maior
6. Nene de Vila Matilde
7. Peruche

Nene de Vila Matilde





X-9 Paulista




Mancha Verde




Tom Maior





Vila Maria





Rosas de Ouro





PERUCHE










Sambodromo!

Last night was the coolest party in the world!! It was all the samba schools that got to show off in the parade

To give you an idea of how it works...there is 14 Samba schools in the Sao Paulo Samba e Carnaval, they all get judged off their music, floats, dancers, costumes, timeliness, coordination and more. Each school has to do their performance within the time constraint, 55-65 minutes, and get all 3-4,000+ people/characters through the half Km stretch

Last night 7 schools played, the other 7 will play tonight. Each school has an original story line and song, that all revolves around their theme

I wish I could've gone both nights, but tonight has been sold out

Anyways, I'm gonna put pictures up of all the different floats

(Here's my watch when I got home...yes, that's a little A, not Pm, to the left)

Wednesday, February 18

CARNAVAL!!!!


Carnaval starts Friday night! It's gonna be crazy! I've heard only awesome things about it. I can't wait...I want to get tickets for the main parade, but I'm still not sure where it's at. So if you don't hear from me for a couple days, it's because I'm off doing something crazy. A lot of the main stuff doesn't start til 10 or so in the evening and then ends around 5 in the morning. we'll see how everything goes. But regardless, it's gonna be an experience of a lifetime...no doubt!

I'll for sure post about how everything went next week sometime. Hopefully with some wicked pictures.

Sunday, February 15

All In A Day's Work

On the bus...

Haha!! I found an ice rink...rather small, and no boards, but still pretty cool!

On the subway...

One of the views from my street


They even have Applebee's!! Probably expensive though...
A view from my balcony. Very Nice!

No Samba's...But Still Fun

This weekend flew by...I saw Sim, Senhor...or rather Yes, Man...yesterday. The theartre was way nice and it only cost like four bucks for a student on a Saturday night!!! Not bad.

Today, I got to go check out a church, it's Calvary International Church, I'm glad I found it. I debated going, cause then that's just another place where English is spoken, and it will make it that much more difficult to me to learn, but I was just craving to hear God's word, and fellowship with other Christians. I liked the church and the people were real friendly, I made some friends that hopefully I'll be able hang out with some...they're Brazilians. The message at the church was good, the pastor talked from the book of Numbers...not one I read almost ever...but it was way cool, and he tied it together with words of Jesus.

After all that I got to walk around some more in an area I haven't been able to yet, and got to try out the subway for the first time, which is always fun. All in all a good weekend, and I'm joyful for God helping me with everything I need here.

Tchau