Brazil is crazy. The people are crazy! Crazy good! I love them. I am learning some Portuguese but I am pretty bad at it. Thankfully there are a lot of similar Spanish words. So the first day we were here (Sunday) Tyler Elias Gabby (Pitt friends) and Shelly (UVA) just walked around the markets in Manaus the port city we have docked in and explored. That night we heard about a Samba rehearshal for the carnival that happens in March in Manaus so we wanted to go check it out. Apparently the people putting on the rehearsal knew we were coming so they put on quite the show. I have never had so much fun in a public event like that. I can’t really explain it without showing the videos I have on my computer but if any of you ever get the chance to experience a samba GO! It was so much fun. You are just in a crowd of a hundres of people while they play instruments and you dance the samba!! I was talking to Brazilians the whole time and asking them to teach me the dance which was awesome! They loved us semester at sea kids! Originally we wanted to go find a bar to watch the football games going on but the samba was WAY better! So the steelers beat the Jets (sorry andy and ali) and we celebrated by singing the “Here we go Steelers” song the whole way home and we decided that if the steelers win the super bowl we are going to riot on the ship and video tape it and post it on youtube like they will throughout Pittsburgh!!! Go steelers!
Monday-Tuesday I went on a village homestay! I am gonna nap then write about that and post!
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