Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Hello everyone! I just arrived back from Brazil on the 18 and was greeted by Houston with a tornado and the war. Isn't that just peachy? It's already bad enough that I had to leave Brazil and leave my family behind. I feel very sad right now, and I'm still trying to get used to the fact that I won't see them for another year. And on top of that, I have the war on my mind now, just to make matters worse. Well, enough of the depressing stuff. I have a lot to say and a lot of piccys. I will post most of them in the Picture Forum for everyone to see. I would love for everyone to take a look at Brazil. I think you would like it. It's a very beautiful, peaceful, cultured place. No wonder they aren't in the war (or have been in ANY war for that matter. They are a very peaceful people.) [i]OK.....starting off with day one, February 28, 2003. (I hope I don't bore you with this, but I want everyone to know!!)[/i] [b]I was picked up early from school and my teachers all poured homework and worries on me. We got on our plane (United Airlines) and arrived in Chicago after a 2 hour flight. And don't ask about us going from Houston to Chicago, that was United's fault. We couldn't get a direct flight to Sao Paulo like we wanted to. I was in Chicago for the first time, and from what I saw, it's an awesome city. And then came hell: We already had a ton of luggage to keep us with, and now we had to get ready for the 10 hour flight PACKED with people from Chicago, Illinois to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Some a-hole who sat in front of me INSISTED on squishing me the whole damn time just to piss me off. I fought that war well while pushing on his seat the whole flight until I finall fell alseep... So we got there, got our luggage, and went through customs. My mom and I have Brazilian Passports so we got through easily. We DO have American passports, of course, but since she was born in Brazil and I am half-Brazilian, we just have them. My poor dad had to wait in line with all the Americans going to Carnaval in Rio showing the officers their Visas. Our family was already there waiting for us (I'm not going to get into the family thing...I'll just say their names, tell you how they are related, and show piccys.) So, we loaded our luggage into a small Chevorlet Brazilian truck (cars there are smaller than in the US and they use Alchol gasoline). It was HOT there compared to Houston and I wasn't prepared for it yet. I was still dressed in long sleeves. Now, for a dirty cramped city with 8 million people, Sao Paulo (Portuguese for Saint Paul) is a gougous city. I just love it. We got to their huge apartment and was greeted my my 'tia' Ana Olga (tia means Aunt. In real life, she is my 2nd cousin. And all of this family is on my mom's side. Nothing to do with my dad at all.) She squeezed me until I asked my mom to call her off. We ate some wonderful Brazilian food....mmmmm....Pao de Queso, Farofa, Arroz....*drools* I miss it already. And by the way....those things are: Cheese bread, Beans, and Rice. But cooked in the yummy Brazilian way. I have another cousin by the name of Andrea who is exactly my age, thank God. Even though we can't really say a word to each other, we somehow communicate. But, I'll get into the whole familly thing later. The news just came as soon as we finished eating. "Pack up, we're going to Rio!" And we just got to Sao Paulo for crying out loud!!! I got some clothes and we left Sao Paulo crammed in the truck like sardines for 6 hours.[/b] And that's all I'm going to cover for now. Trust me, there is TONS more to come. This isn't even the fun part yet.....*evil smirk* Coming up next! Rio de Janerio!!! Nude beaches! Robbery!! Carnaval!!! [i]Stay tuned!!![/i] No really, please wait for more of the story of my trip!! I'll let everyone know the rest by tommorow and Saturday! You just wait!!!!!! Lotsa Love!! Lauren [b]PS: This is a note for all of you Anime fans out there. You won't BELEIVE what Anime Brazil has!! I'll share it with everyone in the Anime Forum. I have a looonnnggg list to share.[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotenksSSJ343 Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Thats awesome yeah it would kinda suck to leave family behind and come back to welcome to hellzone/warzone US. Your trip sounds awesome. And if we survive through nuclear war by summer. Were going to either Japan ( I thought of this because my aunts there.) or South Carolina. ( More US war fun but it has a nice beach!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Sounds like some fun. Glad to have a member back. Also glad you made it back with out being robbed or anything horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest postbagboy Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 i've never been to either the countries. sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biida Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 [Quote][i]Originally posted by Gokents[/i] Also glad you made it back with out being robbed or anything horrible.[/quote] [color=skyblue]*looks at Yu Yu's post again* ...[/color] [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Yu Yu Hakusho! [/i] Coming up next! Rio de Janerio!!! Nude beaches! Robbery!! Carnaval!!! [i]Stay tuned!!![/i][/QUOTE] [color=skyblue]Need I say more? ;) Lol. Just playing with ya.. Anyway, glad you're back safely. ^_^ I wanna hear more. It sounds like a cool trip. And I'm studying about Brazil and its history at the moment in school, which makes this even more interesting. [/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.D. Ryoko Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Welcome back. Brazil sounds real peaceful. I wish I could be there than locked up in the big city. I wish I could go to another country. The only other country I went to was Canada on a 13hr bus ride because I did not want to take a plane. By the way Canada is beautiful. Anyway welcome back and I can`t wait to hear more about your trip.^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posthumous Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Otakugirl1202 [/i] [B]LOL Inuyasha ate it [/B][/QUOTE] [color=teal][size=1][b]Please stay on topic eh? Rio de Janiero Nude Beaches.....hmm.... Anywho welcome back from your vacation in heaven...[/b][/size][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted March 23, 2003 Author Share Posted March 23, 2003 Thank you all for your input!! I'll be sure to post more of my trip up soon, but in the meantime, I'm very busy with school. Hopefully, tommorow will be that day. Anyway, stay tuned!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted March 27, 2003 Author Share Posted March 27, 2003 Ok...here's the other half of my trip. This is the part with Rio de Janeiro in it and some other places. If anyone here was looking foward to hearing about nude beaches, sorry to let you down, but I never went to any. I just passed a few of them in Rio and Floranipolis and heard about them. The rest is up to your imagination.... Ok, so after we got to Rio, we went to a place which Americans refer to as the 'Sugar Loaf' which if you don't know what that is, is a place with Jesus standing on top of a mountain with his arms wide open, as if he was welcoming you to Rio. Either way, it is beautiful. At the time that we went, it was very hot. I was still into cool Houston weather and the sudden changes made me gripey. I have a picture of the Sugar Loaf for you guys. Take a look at it! Ok, so you think, all's well that ends well....well, not for us. My dad left our two camera bags under a bench and about 5 minutes later we realized that we didn't have them and we looked for them. In just 5 MINUTES, they were gone. That's the thing with SOME Brazilians (notice I capitalized SOME) is that some are really poor and are acustomed to stealing to get what they want. I don't know what poor people would be doing on the Sugar Loaf, but our camera bags were stolen by SOMEONE... It wasn't that big of a deal until we realized all of our camera film from American was gone. Oh well, we bought some more, and thankfully, the cameras were with us. I bet that person that took our bags was sure dissapointed to not find any cameras! The next day, we went to the beach and I got sunburned like a crab. I think the beach we went to was Copacabana....but we passed by Ipanema. A nice trick I learned is that after you get sunburned, get some ice water and pour it over your sunburn and it will heal quickly and the pain will go away!! It hurt like hell when my cousin put that ice cube on me, but it's better than suffering for a week. But I peeled all the time and it was so gross!! Ok...here's the fun part.... One word. Carnaval. Basically Brazilian Mardi Gras, except with naked women on beautiful floats dancing around, samba music, people dancing everywhere, and gays (no offense to anyone here that is gay) making out everywhere. Sad thing is, I didn't get to go, and neither did my cousin Andrea. We stayed at the apartment and relaxed and watched Carnaval live on TV, which, according to my dad, is better than going live since that night it stormed and stuff... Me and Andrea screwed around with the digital camera and I played some of my CD's...and we danced around like fools until I got hungry...and we ate this chocolate pudding thing which was really good! The next morning, my mom and dad told me all about Carnaval and how they'd never go again. They said it was fun and beautiful and that overall they enjoyed it, but that they wouldn't pay 400 dollars ever again to get mugged. Some African-Brazilian street punks got in a big circle around my dad and took his credit card. My dad was really tired and kind of drunk so he didn't know what was going on. Thank God they didn't kill him, because most of the time if you struggle or make them mad, they just get out a gun or knife and kill you. We canceled the credit card like 30 minutes after they took it, so they probably didn't get any use out of it. My mom was the person with all the money in her pockets and they tried to steal from her too, but she fought them and kept them away from her until they stopped. They didn't get anything from her. This is when they were in a huge crowd of people leaving to the car area. My Brazilian 'Tia' and 'Tio' just left my parents behind unaware of the danger, but everything turned out alright in the end. The reason they probably tried to steal from my dad is beacuse he looks like a forginer, and from my mom just because she was with my dad, otherwise, she looks Brazilian. My parents were glad that I wasn't there with them. That was most of Rio. We stayed there for 4 days and we are mad at ourselves for that. We should've only stayed for like 2 or 3 days so that we could've spent more time in Florianipolis. Here is a picture for you. I will talk more later!! Coming up Next: Soccer Riots in Sao Paulo!! Prime Minister of Brazil! Insane Spoiled Cousins!! Stay Tuned!! (And go to the picture thread for all of my Brazil pictures) Ok, so I can't post any good pictures I want now because OB keeps saying they're too big. That sux. Well, go to the Picture Forum to see if I did get any! -Lauren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Change Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 I want to go to the Carnival. The Simpsons even did a special on it. Brazil is also the home of Guga, I would like to watch him practice (he hits the ball so hard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semjaza Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 All I know about Brazil I learned from the Simpsons. Actually, probably 25% of my culture comes from that show. Oh well heh. Carnival actually sounds pretty great from what you've said and I've heard about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Transtic Nerve Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 Why didn't you post this in the same topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Transtic Nerve [/i] [B]Why didn't you post this in the same topic? [/B][/QUOTE] :Throws down magic merge dust: Gosh, the kid is good. :smirk: Remember to place further posts dealing with your trip in this thread, Yu Yu. Things will operate much more smoothly that way; all your experiences will be easy to locate since they're together. [quote][b]I don't know what poor people would be doing on the Sugar Loaf, but our camera bags were stolen by SOMEONE... [/b][/quote] Waiting for unsuspecting tourists, of course. ;) It's great that you're writing all this down; it would make a great personal essay. The trip sounds [i]incredible[/i]. One moment, I can picture lush surroundings, with the serenity of Christ, himself, welcoming you with open arms atop a mountain. The next, your family is being mugged amidst a wild celebration. What a time! Sheesh. :drunk: It sounded like you were exposed to a lot. I'm looking forward to hearing about your other experiences. The soccer riots in Saunta Paulo sound particularly interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted March 29, 2003 Author Share Posted March 29, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Transtic Nerve [/i] [B]Why didn't you post this in the same topic? [/B][/QUOTE] I don't really know why I did that...I guess since no one was paying attention to this thread I wanted to make a new one which might catch people's eyes.... Well, thank you Charles!! It sounds to me like you can picture where I've been, even though I can't post up any pictures yet because OB says they're too big.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaiyanPrincessX Posted March 30, 2003 Share Posted March 30, 2003 Wow! Sounds like you had a good time. I look forward to reading about the rest of your trip. By the way, welcome back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yu Yu Hakusho! Posted March 30, 2003 Author Share Posted March 30, 2003 Thank you! I will post up more of my trip soon, I promise! And I've even been thinking of making it into a story and getting a few people together to make maybe an Anime version or something. Anyway, just to let everyone know, I posted up a topic with pictures from Brazil. Be sure to go there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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