Criciuma, Floripa, Sao Paulo, Santos, Parents Arriving. Aug 17 - Sep 4
Autor: Mat Gabel | Publicado: 2011-09-21T08:15:00-07:00

So on Tuesday night strath and clare arrived at like 1 in the morning or something ridiculous, and then me and my mum picked them up and took them back to our place. On Wednesday we had a sleep in and then my cousins came around for lunch. After lunch we went to my school so strath and clare could meet a few people, after that we did the grand tour of Criciuma (walked around the centre for like an hour). That afternoon we just chilled and waited until late at night so we could go out to Sertanejo Night. I think they enjoyed it, its something very different but its not for everyone. They were quite confused how so many people can just go out on a Wednesday night when they all have to work the next day. On Thursday we slept in again and then went to the cheap café next to my school and ate some good stuff. We went for another walk through the city and just chilled out again, then in the early evening we went out to meet up with Gaucho, and I finally got to meet up with Patrick, the American university exchange student in Criciuma. When we came back my mum had a LOT of subway-style food ready for us. Was ridiculous, me and strath almost ate like 2 feet of sandwich, each! But clare was weak and only ate a little. We chilled for a while after that and then went to bed. In the morning I had to pack my bags ready for my trip. Wasn’t hard, just chucked in all my socks and jocks, boardies, singlets, shirts and stuff. That day my host dad arrived back from Columbia and it was his birthday. So then we all went off to Floripa. When we got there strath and clare went back to their families. That night I went out to a Japanese restaurant with my family, they all got sushi but I got some sort of beef with Asian vegies and sauces, was real good. Then after that I met up with strath, clare and Felicia, to go to a small rock show at the university. Afterwoulds clare went home while me and strath slept over felicias. The following day me and strath went to meet up with the new German exchange student, Theri. It was good, we showed her a nice beach and then took her out to a mates birthday BBQ. After this we went out to 1007, because it was felicias history class party which turned out quite good, but theri wasn’t allowed to go. After that strath slept over my place. Then on Sunday we slept in, woke up wo a yummy BBQ cooked by my dad, and then we headed off to felicias place to get my hair cut! Clare came over to help as well, to be honest they didn’t do a bad job, but they didn’t do a good job either haha, but im very greatful for their work and everything so whatever. That night strath finally went home to sleep at his place, and I think I slept there too. On Monday my parents went back to Criciuma, and I stayed in Floripa with my sister. Between then and Wednesday night, when my parents came back, I think I slept over logans house one of the nights, he slept over mine another night, we watched Trope de Elite (the BOPE movie) we went to some beaches, and also went to see theri. We had dinner with her family and made it back to my place to say goodbye to my dad, as he went back to Columbia for work. I think that night logan went home then maybe strath slept over, honestly don’t really remember. Then on Thursday, my mum drove me to the airport and I went to Sao Paulo. That night me and tom went for a walk around the soccer stadium because there was a game on, just so he could show me all the police and stuff, Sao Paulo is a MUCH bigger city than Criciuma, Floripa, and pretty much every city in the world. We had an earlyish night and the next day I went with him to some kind of rotary meeting with other exchange students. That night we met up with about 6 exchange students and had a really good time. Beau, Sarah and Jaimie came into the city, I hadn’t seen for more than 6 months, so that was really good. The next day I went to big toms house in a suburb a bit out of the city, Phiil from South Africa was also there, and we weren’t really going to do anything, until we got invited to a triplets 18th birthday party. Im going to say it was one of the most memorable and best nights of my life. There was so many people there, but we knew absolutely nobody, only big tom knew one of the triplets. The next day at around lunch time we went to like a family BBQ which was quite good, we played so volleyball and footy and stuff. We went back to big toms house and I organized going to Santos, a very close city to Sao Paulo. So Phiil went to some other city to meet a friend of his while I stayed at big toms. The next day we woke up kinda early and met up with tom and tiare and we all took a bus to Santos. When we got there we met up with Sarah and we went around the city a bit, there was a skate park there with nobody in it, so I went skating for a while with her board. Then we found a cheap restaurant on the beach which was so good. Beau met us there and we had a good time. After that, big tom, tom and tiare went back to Sao Paulo and I stayed with Sarahs family. It was really good staying with her, and her family was so nice. I stayed there for 2 nights and had a really good time. Early the next morning I caught a bus back to Sao Paulo, to meet my parents, the real ones! They were exhausted from the flight from London with the jetlag and everything.&nbsp; I have decided not to write a blog of my trip with my parents, I will just use the one they are writing, as we are doing the same things, and I am far too lazy. So I will just say what we did in Sao Paulo together without details. We went to the main streets to some nice cafes, had a bit of the city tour, went to the tallest building to see a huge view of the whole city, the end of the cty could not be seen 360 degrees, the city is just huge. We also went out to some nice places at night, we all had a really enjoyable time. They went to Floripa to meet my family on the Saturday, but my flight was on Sunday. So I went to a BBQ with tom and his host brother, which was quite nice, then I went out to meet up with some more exchange students and had a nice night. We had to wait for the trains to work again, so I didn’t get to sleep before I caught my plane! I was so exhausted that whole day. Between then and when I finish my big trip with my parents I will post their blogs, theres just so many things we are doing and I don’t have time to write it. But right now we are in the last city of our northeast leg of the tour, and getting ready for a dune buggy ride with crazy sanboarding and everything tomorrow! Then we are off to rio, pantanal and iguazu falls. My posts will continue weekly when I get back to Criciuma, which will be around the 6th of October.im having a good time translating English to portugues for my parents and getting them out of tricky situations.