after my family left, my sister's friends slowly started coming into the apartment. there would be 4girls, counting me and my sister and then 9boys, counting my brother. yeah 13people, mainly alll boys, in one apartment. yeah, talk about a messssss. (but our apartment is hugee. you could easily fit 3families and then some strangers too comfortably)
almost all the boys arrived on bus at 5am one morning, charging into our room, yelling, screaming, saying, "We're at the beach! Let's go to the beach! Right now!"
it's 5am. i am not a morning person. back offff.
i didnt like them.
..then we spent a weeek together and we became one big family together. :D
the boys are a hurricane of energy, going to the poool, going to the beach, wanting to do everything all at once.
it made me miss my friends back at home which, to be honest, i never misssed. that sounds horrible and i know that many people are offended back home but i have friends here, good friends. people that i love hanging out with and call my bffffffffs.
but being around people who have been friends since grade school, that knew each other so welll, that have each others back, i wanted to have that. go to taylors house for secret santa, wanted to have a heart-to-heart in history with matt, megan, chelsea &brian. wanted to hang out with kristi at church and make fun of schdurp. wanted to go shopping with rissssy. wanted MY friends back..
but coming to brasil is about making NEW friends ariana. duhhh.
on dia 6 de janerio, i callled laura, my friend from ipatinga, and we went out to the beach at night, sat around while people were playing the guitar, singing music and just having a good time. we were in the center of guarapari so there were alot of streeet vendors, selling anything imaginable. laura asked, "hey, have you ever ate a crepe?" "no, i havent, i would like to try one."
mistake.
ate a chocoatle crepe for the first and last time.
woke up at 5am, would not stop throwing up. threw up until 2 in the afternoon, where my father drove 6hours to take me to the hostipal, put some IVs in me, still wouldnt stop throwing up, shot in my buttt, stayed the night in the hospital, most miserable experience everrrrrrr.
i am HEALTHY now. no worrries. learned my lesson. everything is just fine.
plus, i needed to get bettter for the nightclub we were going to on saturday night ;D
the day of the nightclub we went to the different beach which actually had WAVES! and i regrettably wore a strapless top.. mistakes.
we alll took a nap, preparing to stay up until the sun came up the next morning.
going to a nightclub here in brasil, the girls wear clothes tyical to a homecoming/prom.
do i have that kindof clothes, ofcourse not. but one of the girls let borrow one of her fashionable dresses and i felt hotttttttt ..until i started sweating which was instant. then i just felt slopppy.
the nightclub was kinda of divided into two parts:
part 1: similar to a homecoming dance, but bettter. just american music that i knew so i was screaming out the music, teaching people how we dance back in US, sweating like it was mandatory, and my feeet burned
part2: the main part of going to the nightclub was to seee the brasileiro rock band, joita quest. wasnt really my type of music so i sat down for a litttle, cooled offf, gave my feeet a litttle breather, and just swayyed to the music.
part3: after the band, we ran into the danceclub which is excatly! how i pictured a danceclub: a huge, dark building with many levels, flashing lights, &techno music
and i was right in the midddle of this crazy-nesss !
it was the nicest thing everrr.
we came home 5am, gathered around the table to eat chocoatle cake and laugh about everything that happened that night and then eventually passed out and slept basicallly allll day.
on the last full day everyone was here, we alll crammed into bus and took a road trip to Vitória to a water park called Yahoo! i hadnt beeen in a water park in a long time and i was excited to seee what it would be like in brasil.
since it was a monday, basically no one was there, no lines, no waiting, just our crazy bunch of kids :)
some of the rides, i thought i was gonna die on, its brasil, safety is the least of their concern. some of the rides didnt have lifeguards! making us come home with bruises and cuts.
there was a litttle section of amusement park rides and we took adventage of that after lunch.
the funnnniest ride i have ever beeen one, the pirate ship where it was just us, 14obnxious kids. screaming, yelling, laughing, people look like they were gonna throw up cause, i could NOT stop laughing. it was soooo nice.
everyone left the following night, taking a bus back home, and i left wednesday morning, another long car ride to spend the last few days with Clare F Harris.. :(
