Carnival!

Camarote Skol 2011

Today I was thinking of finally write about the carnival! I really wanted to do it before but I haven’t felt like I was ready to talk about the carnival because of what happened. But know I feel better. I had really fun during the carnival, the four days that I had the time to experience.

Camarote Skol was by far the best! We had open bar, free make-up, free decorating of the clothes for girls, free beer-glass, free hand-cuffs ;) they handed out a lot of other things to put in your hair also. It was awesome and so much fun! I wished we could do that every day!

We went with Jair’s awesome Italian friends Roberto Faga, Elso di Marco, Massimiliano and his girl! We had so much fun!!!!

Massimiliano and his girl

Jair and me

One thing happened there that was a little bit scary but it’s normal if you’re me… I faint sometimes and I’m actually happy that Jair got to see that because now he knows that I’m not dyeing or something like that if it happens again he will know that there is no problem. I felt a little bit funny after one sip of my glass, like I couldn’t breathe probably so I asked Jair to stay one second with me before leaving with the others. Then it happened I was hugging Jair and just passed out and started to shake a little bit (according to the people who witness the whole thing). Just a short while after I felt someone holding my back, like in a dream and I woke up. I saw that Jair was still standing up with me hugging me and there were a lot of people around us. A guard was there and I was sure that I was going to tell me to go home, but he was just there to check on me and I felt fine, I felt like it never happened. Everyone told me, to drink water, but I didn’t faint because I was thirsty of course not haha! And I felt better than ever, like I just had a powernap! No more dizzy nothing! So we continued the party and stayed until the place closed at 5 am. 

Jair's wonderful Italian friends that we are planning to visit in august this year!

Jair and Roberto

Little brother Emil with a sixth-sense, at the same second as I fainted he walked up the stairs and found Jair holding me - magic connection

Elso, Jair and Roberto - belengooooo

Family!!!

Bloco passing-by, but there was actually more find to be in the camarote than in the bloco! There is much more things to do in the Camarote and much more safer!

My very own free stylist!

Jair and Roberto

Bloco truck passing by, you can see the little bar there cool!!

Mmm... I love beeer!

Travel tips!

A few Brazilians speak English so make sure to learn simple phrases as “Quanto custa?” which means “How much?”  and how to count in Portuguese that’s always useful when you want to buy something. But be aware that people might try to trick you. 3 três, 6 seis and 10 dez  is pronounced like “trays”, “says” and “days” so the sound is very similar. The salesmen on the beach may tell you that the price is seis and you hand him dez because you don’t have any change, but he just walks calmly away instead of giving you the change back. When you tell him that the price was seis, he just shakes his head and tells you dez! This happened to me, but I stood up for myself so I got my money back! NOBODY trick me!

Jairs new surfboard!

Jairs new surfboard, half Swedish flag and half Brazilian flag, so coooool!

Me with our surfboards, the most beautiful in Barra!

I love Jair's new board, in actually felt flattered that he wanted to make half Swedish flag. Now we just have to find a nice place to surf at in Sweden because the boards are coming with us!

What are friends for?

Jair & Thomas

Bohemia – Friday nights are busy!

Jair – the day after – still drunk :)

Right now, me and Jair are kind of poor… But hey, the beach is for free! And the beer is cheap… But sometimes it would be nice to go to the club or eat some nice food, while we still are in Brazil. I love that, I rather spend all my money going out to have fun with friends or by eating in a nice restaurant, but right now we are simply not able to… But Jair has this amazing friend that takes me and Jair out, even my brother one time! He makes sure that we have one drink each in our hands all night long, he makes sure that weren’t hungry and he makes sure that we have a lot of fun!!! That’s a friend!!! I’m waiting for that day, when me and Jair can spoil him like he spoils us!! Thank you Thomas!!

Travel Tips!

Don't dress down!

Tourists intend to dress down to protect themselves from robbers. But you won't look like you come from the ghetto just by dressing down!

Even though a third of all the Brazilians are very poor and live in the favelas (ghettos), the most of them dress well. When I met my fiancé and he told me that he lives in the favela, I just looked at him from top to toe and then I just shook my head and said NO WAY! He always dress very well!

But there is one way to reveal them, their nails! My Colombian friend told me that he was threaten by a gun to give away his bag (which he had a computer and money for a ticket to Finland) when he passed by a bad area in Colombia. He was dressed in a suit, so he told the robber that he's truly a very poor man and just dressed like a business man because he was looking for a job that particular day. The robber didn't believe him, but he insisted that he was telling the truth. The robber didn't know what to believe so he asked to see his nails and that was what saved my friend! My friend's nails were not done by a manicurist for a while...

In South America it's so cheap to fix your nails, so everyone do that even the men! Just the really poor people won't do that!