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Originally Posted by elitesdontexist
Good stuff. Would really like to check Brazil out. Itacoatiara looks amazing... I MUST head there. Barrels on barrels!!
Yea Brazil is so rad, lots of mixed feelings after staying in such a controversial place for awhile, but I'm still in that honeymoon phase and loving it. Itacoatiara does look really sick, and I'm currently stuck on where the F I should go for Carnavale, but more than likely won't be Rio.
Our first meal here which was amazing. $40 total for 4 people for a giant seafood platter that was more than enough food.
Rio has been awesome, been here for like 1.5 months now. Stayed with poker friends and old college buddy for first couple weeks, then bounced around hotels for a week, now I rented an apartment with some locals. Lots of chillin on the beach which is nice and fun, but I would feel halfway bad about it if I had any actual alternative productive things I wanted to be getting done. Been getting into bodysurfing lately which is surprisingly super fun, but wish I was somewhere I could be working on surfing.
they like fooseball here, but rarely see anyone playing real games. They play volleyball with their feet/heads though which is so rad to watch.
Finished portuguese on duolingo and can pretty confidently talk in portuguese now, reading and writing is also fine - but understanding is a completely different story. I never understand when people say simple words like internet, skate, grande, etc...just such crazy accents here. Almost all words end in a vowel and its a really funny playful language. Plan on watching a ton more TV in portuguese with english subtitles instead of the other way around. Also going on dates once a week where the person speaks no english. Slowly getting back into poker and will be going to LAPT Chile in March.
NYE was super fun, bummed myself out a bit over a girl I was sure I was hooking up with, then she kissed my friend with herpes and I was suuuuper over it. Me and my friend got asked to kiss some less than attractive girls as a favor or something and they both went insane/clingy. We tried running away to the water for a minute to breathe and they followed us which was insane, so we literally just started running down the beach. 2 million people on the beach so at that point it was easy to lose them, but we lost our other friends.
really cool how you can just see Jesus all the time here. this was NYE this year
small idea of how many people celebrate. beach is packed for like 4 miles like this, everyone dancing and drinking and 20 mins of really cool fireworks.
I didn't have a girl to kiss at midnight and then 1 minute before 2 girls just come up to me and a buddy, mine was smokin, so that worked out well. Getting laid here seems really easy, tinder all day every day and if a girl doesn't have sex on the first date I'm honestly a bit offended by now. Only have 1 regular girl, the rest are either crazy or one night stands.
Jump over 7 waves at midnight for good luck, so after the fireworks end everyone heads to the ocean. Stayed up until 10am that day to watch the sunrise.
And this is where I live, called botafogo. 2km from the more famous beaches and a nice location, def the hipster part of town but its nice, I'm happy here for a month. Roommates are all cool and helping me out alot with the language. Don't think I'm fluent yet but good enough for me to count it as trilingual, which was always a goal of mine before I turn 30.
Finally started skating again which feel great, and I've got 2 weeks left in Rio before deciding on what to do next. Northern Brazil for a couple weeks for Carnavale and then go to Floripa afterwards...or go to Floripa for Carnavale and then decide what to do after. Want to buy a ticket for Chila (LAPT), Peru (aya), Colombia (meeting mom/have some other business there/new skatepark just opened). So my itinerary is nice and planned out for awhile. It's nice taking time off poker, but I'm still stuck on the internet for large portions of the day. Did 2 hour review session with a horse today, watching lots of RIO vids and my study group has our own website now we're posting video reviews on, watching cosmos on netflix, and facebook/skype/tindering my life away per usual.
Brazil girls are awesome. So chill and easy to put your wiener in, although way too many crazies in the mix. One girl last month came over after a 20 minute convo on tinder, and within the first couple minutes lets me knows that she is bi-polar and quit taking her meds last week and everything feels really off for her. I figured there was a 20% chance she was gonna murder me, she would start to relapse into these weird episodes of getting super angry and I'd have to calm her down. She brought over a bunch of weed and I was tripping out, like her face was morphing and I had no idea what she was saying. Haven't called her back. Have a nice little crew of one german 2p2er and 2 english guys to go out with, so overall life is good at the moment