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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 didnt 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 dont 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.
So when Sarah was here on the Tuesday we went to the local beach, Rincao. Sarah was pretty suprised with how deserted and quiet the place was but i think she liked that. We stayed at the beach for a while and i went for a surf, it looked pretty bad but i was keen as. When i got out there i had the best surf of the year, it was really enjoyable with some powerful waves and nobody in sight, the water is still quite icy cold though!The next day Sarah had to catch a bus back to Floripa to catch up with her host brother and get her free lift back to Santos. So that day i slept and finihsed my Rotary Presentation. That night my mum and I went to Rotary and my speech was the main event. So after all my hard(ish) work I forgot to bring my page to read. So i had to do it off the top of my head. But it was all fine they said it was the best presentation they have seen by an exchange student. In the end i think i talked about my trips to Indonesia more than Australia or Brasil haha.On Thursday i went to school and was shocked that there was pretty much nobody there, because of tests and things.On Friday my mum and I went to Floripa and we planned to stay there until Wednesday, but we stayed there until yesterday (Sunday). I really enjoyed my time in Floripa during that week and a half. Logan and I went sandboarding 3 times and had an absolute blast. The first time we went with Strath, Theri and Daniella. Second time when we went by ourselves we walked from Lagoa instead of taking a bus, which is really far. We decided to walk via the sandunes for it to be faster. It was a nice but long walk looking like we were in the desert, kinda. and halfway to Joaquina we stumbled upon a sandune that had been modified with sand bag jumps and rails and things, it was like a a skate park set up on a dune really awesomeee. We were wondering how many people could know about it because it was so out of the way. So the third time we went, Keevon came with us and we trekked out way to the awesome dune. took like half an hour from the board renting shop, which was 10 reais for however long we wanted, good deal i thought. we stayed at the sand dune for a while and felt as if we were alone in a desert with nobody near by anywhere, so we went down the jumps in our undies and things like that, until 4 professional sandboarders and like 30 trekking tourists came past hahaha. It was real cool sharing the dune with professionals and seeing how amazing their boards were. I think i impressed the shit out of them doing airs on the crappy hire board. But we all had a great time
and i loved it, will definately go back there again.So apart from sandboarding, the first friday was logans birthday party, which was really fun and a lot of the exchange students went to it. Also we all went to the beach a lot, i went to school once with strath, went to the cinemas and just chilled out. But on saturday night was Felicias birthday so we had sushi with her and all her friends, then we went off to a replulica party which wasn`t a typical brazilian party at all, but more like what we have back home. And also my host dad arrived back last Wednesday so it's good to see him again. Strath left to go to the Pantanal and Belo Horizonte, so i stayed at Rudys place for quite a few nights while i was there. I think thats about it. I was told today that Volleyball and Futsal are on tonight so i hope that turns out, pretty keen for some exercise. Then tomorrow I'm off to see Ricky on the border of Brasil and Uruguay! So im pretty excited about that, I am going to stay there for a week, we are going to travel back to Criciuma for my school formal! exciting time, but i feel like this year is finishing quicker than i would like it to.
instead of writing all about it ill here is the blog that was made by the company http://nordestenovdez2001.blogspot.com/ the only problem is, is that its in Portuguese. but just looking at the pictures you can tell what we did.Now I'm back in Criciuma. The day i go back was my sisters 21st birthday. the next day we took a stroll on the beach and swam in the lake. then yesterday we, my sis, diego, gaucho and me, went to the beach for a surf, then for a BBQ, then for some fun in the lake, then back to the beach for another surf. i caught some sick waves and left with satisfaction. i aslo took some pretty cool pics of some waves, they look like they are perfet, but the really wern't. then at night Gaucho and I went to a mates farm house for the nightto chill with the boys. and now im getting ready to go to a nearby beach were they have had pro surfing competitions to stay the night! hopefully the waves are pumping. i'm making the most of my last 24 days in brasil!
so last week was called Semana Diferente (Different Week) and after the rehearsals it was time for the actual day. it was on thursday, went really awesome! everyone was dressed up in really crazy costumes and so happy. one of the best things about brasil is the contant positive and happy energy from people, makes everything enjoyable. so we had 3 classes with our costumes before we showed off our dances to the school. was quite funny cos noone could take the classes seriously when we were all dressed up with a few loud drunk guys in the back. so the rest of the day we just watched all the other classes and had a real good time. on friday i arrived late at school about to enter the class, when the principle approaches me and says that he has moved me into the grade above because I wont do any work in the class and talk too much, which is total bullshyt. But he explained a bit more it seemed like a better offer; i can now go without uniform, leave the class at any time to drink or pee, and the teachers wont ask me to do any work. i was already in the last grade of school, but this grade is a whole year of studying just for tests that get you into uni, without these tests theres no way to get into uni, and the tests are ridiculously hard. when i tell everyone how easy it is in australia they get really jealous. i feel very sorry for them. so friday night i went to a mates house, was just 5 of us and was really good, i fit in as a normal brazilian, and gaucho made us a killer BBQ. so on saturday gaucho got his things together and we headed to the beach to surf! was good because my cousins were having a BBQ at the beach, so we surfed then ate some more delicious meat. after that good start to the weekend, i was too tired to even go out on saturday, so i slept for like almost 20 hours! 2 weekends in a row of surfing im very happy, the surf wasnt very good but i got a few good waves, was bloody freezing! on sunday me and mum went to a cottage type restaurant, was really tasty. then yesterday went to school in my new class again, mad a couple of friends, but its hard as they are studying so hard for these tests. that night i had volleyball and futsal, scored 2 goals this week yewwwwww. today went to school again, was aiight, and tonight strath and clare should be arriving here in Criciuma! clares first time here, we will hopefully go out to the sertanejo night (country brazilian music) to show them some culture that they dont get in Floripa. and on thursday or friday we are all going back to floripa and i will start my big trip :D yeh im back now and everything, so ill just writing what
i did in brasil.packed up all my stuff in criciuma and took it back to floripa. got there and went straight to straths gowing away party thing. had a sick night with heaps of mates and everything, gonna miss all of them. next day i packed up all my stuff so i was ready to leave, bought some last few bits and pieces then headed off to Lagoa for the last night. was good, had some drinks and stuff with strath and his sister, then we met up with theri and daniela. chilled with some other gringos on the pier and finally headed home to pick up my bags and go to the airport. with a good time and way to finish the exchange and say bye to everyone. sandro and keevon even made it to the airport so that was awesome. me and strath had to wait in sao paulo airport from 10am til 1am the next day. was ridiculous. then i ended up getting into brissy at like 6pm on the 14th. so thats like 60 hours of travel or some ridiculousness like that. but made it all good and had my sis, mum, dad, dean, jalo, katie, and maz there waiting for me, so i was stoked. had an amazing year, but im so glad to be back, and real excited to start uni!The End.
so yeh i didnt go to volleyball, instead i was a good boy and did my rotary speach, which i have to present on wednesday! so that night was nice, we went and met up with 2 other rotary clubs and had a decent time.Went to school the next day, but i wasnt feeling very well so i went home after recess and finihsed my speach. so like the next day we went off to floripa, but when i got there strath was out of town for the day so i caught up on some organising and stuff, and bought my Soundwave ticket! the next day me strath and logan all chilled out and had a good time, made some tasty milkshake bigodes and then went out with Bruno (their host brother) was a very enjoyable day. the next day i woke up at like 10 and went to school with strath, just had a bit to eat, went on the internet and then left. but when we left i ran into a guy i went to Porto Seguro with so i got chatting with him for a while was really nice. that night sarah arrived in town so she made herself at home, in my home, and then we went for a stroll with strathzinho and just stayed out a little. then in the morning we had to wake up early and go to the district meeting for exchange students. it was really good for me because i hadnt met like any of them. so we had a little bit of fun and ate some nice BBQ. after the meeting we went back to my house and got all our stuff backed up. the plan was go to oktoberfest then go straight to criciuma afterwoulds. so yeh there were 35 people on the bus, like exchange students and some mummys. oktoberfest was AMAZING, for some of the german exchange students it was their first oktoberfest and they were not dissapointed. even the ones that have been to the biggest in the world loved it. the place was set up to look like germany, but it was quite fake looking. there were WAY too many people in the area of the party, like had to wait so long in the lines to go to the toilet and even walking around the place was so squishy. but in the end it was an amazing night and awesome experience. when we caught the bus back i slept most of the way and had a nice comfy seat next to sandro. it was quite a long bus ride and there wasnt time to go to the toilet at the end of the party, sooooo i may or may not have had to brainstorm a way to get it out of me.so, when we got back in floripa my mum decided that we would stay there and go to criciuma the next day. so we got a decent sleep and then at night strath and clare came over and we watched Tropo de Elite, the movie
about the BOPE police in rio. i think clare didnt like it so much cos of the violence and stuff but it was goody. early in the morning we all woke up had brekky and left to go to criciuma, strath and clare went back home. today me and sarah did the city tour of criciuma and there was some random guy performing on the street who said he was going to jump through a ring of daggers, he never did but he did some cool magic tricks. since then we just went to Mampituba and tomorrow we plan on going to the beach, and i plan on surfing!
So me and Gaucho went off to Farol de Santa Marta by bus. First we bought what we needed (noodles, ham, cheese and bread) and then went off in the arvo. The bus didnt go all the way to Farol, but we scored a ride on the back of some locals ute the rest of the way. Had an arvo surf when we got there, but it was pretty small and not very good shape. That night we stayed in a pousada (like a homestay thingo) and then went for an early surf. we were chilling out by ourselves, it was fun but pretty small. Then a freak set came and i scored a smoker all the way in, impressing enough people on the beach, that 5 minutes later, 10 people were out with us. was a sweet overnight trip, then we headed back to Criciuma. Next day i moved house, finally! That night was Christmas Eve. In Brasil they celebrate chrissy the night before, have a nice dinner, champagne and open presents. Christmas was a pretty chilled day, as was the next. Boxing day night was my mum's higgh school reunnion type thing. So we all went there had some drinks and danced some country Brasilian music. I think i knew more songs than anyone else there when the new ones came on haha. Next day i took a bus to Floripa. Had a night out with the exchangies. The next day Me, Logan, Strath and Mary made our way to the south of the island with heaps of stuff to stay a couple of nights. The walk was slippery and hard, but after 2 hours we made it, and set up camp, and i went for a surf. Was a freezing night, bit of rain, cold in the junglezinho behind the beach and in front of the lagoon. For dinner we had dry noodles and some fresh strawberries haha. Next morning I woke up early and surfed for a couple of hours. Was the best place I've surfed in Brasil. Noone around, barreling offshore double overheaders all to myself. pretty inconsistent, but for Brasil i was impressed. In the day we chilled on the beach and cooked up heaps of things on a fire. Was amazing to be camping, even though we were still on the island, it felt like we were far away from everything in a remote location. Later that day Keevon, Sandro and Clare surprised us and found us camping and joined us. Didnt rain that night, but we all slept under a Tarp with my surfboard bag being the only cushioning with some more food being cooked over the fire. Woke up early again next morning and surfed again, pretty good waves. rest of the day ate some more, surfed some more, then we headed home. took 4 hours by bus because a power pole fell down and was blocking the road, typical. Then we went out for Mary's birthday. next day was New Years, so we slept and ate until it was night. Me and
Logan were watching tele, then we saw what was happening down the road live, so we went down and started our night early. We made it right up close to the front when Paula Fernandes played, we knew like 1 song, but it was cool. Then we met up with the others for the amazing fireworks and enjoyed the night. Logan kicked a broken bottle by accident, sliced open his foot and was bleeding everywhere. The doctors on the streets wouldnt help him, because they were only helping drunk people that night they said. So Logan and Clare came back to my place and she cleaned up his foot for him. Clare woke up early to go catch a bus, looked so suss her walking out of my room past everyone as they were having brekky hahah whatevs. Next night we went out in Lagoa, night after that we caught up with Alice and Camilla and went camping in Barra. was pretty awesome. Was us 4 with Strath, Mary, Clare, Keevon, Victor and Bruno. We had a nice night sleeping, well Logan did. Barra is like the most touristy place in Floripa, but we just walked 2 km down the beach and suddenly seemed we were far from anything yet again. nice fire and food again, and of course a nice surf in the morning with noone in sight. That day Me, Logan, Victor and Bruno went to rent a good sandboard, as it was the last time for Logan, so we spoiled ourselves, and walked to our secret dune with a lot of stuff, as a killer. When we got to the dune there were 2 professionals yet again. One let me use his board, it was freeking amazing, so smooth and in control, and i managed to do some good jumps. They were loving that i could do it so easily without practice, then he added me on facey and now we are bffl's. That night i slept at Logans place, his host dad was really nice and was so excited to talk his ass off. That day Logan packed most of his things and we finished the day in centro. We went out in Lagoa again, as the despedida (farewell) for Logan. Theri, Daniela and her friend came to join the bunch of us for a celebration. was a pretty messy good night. Stayed at Logans again. Next day we went off to P12 (the richest, high class club on the island) for Logans last night and the show of Michel Telo! Was so good, i love country brasilian music, and he is my favourite artist of them all. so after that we went to the park, Sandro's house and then the beach celebrating every last second we could with Logan. We got a bus home when they started again, then grabbed every last thing and headed to the airport. Was nice, we all had a bit of a cry as it finally kicked in that we were going home and it would never been the same again. I
have had such amazing times with Logan and it was really sad to say goodbye to that. But i know ill go there someday to surf Indicators, wake board in the lake, and have some crazy new Zealander times, You will be missed by everyone Logan, you amazing bloke <3after that, it was time to get some sleep, when i woke up, me and strath met up to go out to a bar and have a nice chilled night on the beira-mar. Next morning i went back to criciuma, now its now and im gonna have to make the most of my last days, even if i have been doing that the whole entire year. Its strange to think that in 4 more days or something like that ill be back in oz with my best mates and back to real life! holy f*&^ing S%!T! next time i post will be from Oz. falouuu Brasil <3 tu vais ficar pra sempre no meu coracao seu gostosinho!
Agradecendo.....Nao imaginei que iria receber tanto apoio por ter criado o blog. Hoje quando deu uma folguinha fui respondendo as perguntas que me enviaram por email, facebook....mensagens.Agradeco a todos os amigos que de alguma forma me apoiaram e continuam me apoiando.Saiba que todas as palavras de incentivo me ajudaram muito. E nao tem como nao agradecer a minha familia que sempre esteve do meu lado me apoiando...amo voces!!!Gostaria de fazer um agradecimento especial a minha avo Maria que neste mes de outubro completou 4 anos que ela foi morar no ceu.Quando ela faleceu descobrimos que ela tinha um caderninho com pedidos de oracao e a sua oracao era para Deus me ajudar a emagrecer, ela sabia que era meu sonho emagrecer.Por isso agradeco a Deus por ter me dado a oportunidade de ter tido uma vo tao maravilhosa, uma mulher virtuosa, temente a Deus e que se dedicava a oracao.Hoje dedico a minha vitoria a ela.La vai algumas fotos....agora magra!!!Amanha coloco mais algumas fotos.Beijos a todos os amigos e boa noite!!! Quero terminar esse domingo maravilhoso dizendo a todos que e tempo de SE AMAR!!!Estava lendo uma revista e qual o tema da capa? AMOR...a maioria das mensagens do face e sobre amor...e como explicar tantas pessoas lindas, inteligentes, bem sucedidas, algumas beirando os 30 e outras um pouco mais e SOLTEIRAS!!!E nao adianta responder que sao feias,gordas, chatos...etc, porque nao sao.Escrevendo essa postagem tenho em mente tres pessoas, sendo duas mulheres lindas, inteligentes, uma com corpo de barbie e outra com curvas, com independencia financeira, simpaticas e um homem com as mesmas qualidades das mulheres, mas sem curvas e sem corpo de barbie...ainda bem!!!Sabe o que falta?? Se amar!!!Quando digo se amar, quero dizer olhar no espelho e gostar daquilo que esta vendo, ser egoista e pensar primeiro no seu bem estar e depois nos outros...pensar se realmente vale a pena aquele relacionamente em que apenas uma parte esta comprometida com o amor.Como posso amar alguem se eu nao me amo!!!!Ja disse em outras postagens que a felicidade nao depende de amor, dinheiro,....a felicidade tem que estar dentro da gente, independentemente das circunstancias!!!Entao a partir de hoje resolva se amar do jeito que voce e...se tem alguma coisa em voce que nao goste, mude. Mas se ame...voce vai ser que a partir do momento em que vc se amar...ira atrair pessoas e quem sabe o seu grande amor!!!Ps.: Quem estiver interessado em saber quem sao os 3 solteiros super interessantes, me escreva...quem sabe abro uma agencia de relacionamentos.....rs.Um otimo feriado a todos. Boa noite a todos os amigos, queria escrever muitas coisas...hoje conversando com uma pessoa,falou que essa musica marcou a vida dela...entao gostaria de postar a musica Epitafio dos Titas...e deixar a mensagem...devia ter amado mais.....boa noite a todos...beijos!!!Curtam a musica e prestem atencao na letra!!! Comeco escrevendo hoje com uma frase do Charlin Chaplin " Cada segundo e tempo de mudar tudo para sempre".Tenho pensado muito nesses ultimos dias sobre mudancas...seja ela de vida, de comportamento, de atitude. Se pararmos para pensar, sempre tem uma area da nossa vida
que precisa ser mudada, INOVE!!!Faca algo diferente...beije, abrace, nao tenha medo de se apaixonar!!Se voce nao tentar...nunca ira sair do lugar. Mesmo que as pessoas a tua volta queiram ver essa mudanca, se voce nao estiver disposto nada acontecera...por isso de o primeiro passo...o que vem depois sera consequencia...Surpreenda voce mesmo!!! Estou escrevendo isso pq essa e minha historia de vida...eu estive inerte muito tempo, mas eu optei por mudar,inovar,me amar, me cuidar...e sabe o que veio depois??? FELICIDADE!!!