almost homE
admin on Jul 16th 2003
Well well well! We went off to the holy Tuesday festivities. It was pretty amazing. They have a ridiculous church with carvings that stick out of the wall, really neat. The music was cool and the partying awesome. Drums being played everywhere, people dancing without a care in the world. And it is only TUESDAY!
The kids are annoying though. They come up to you and start patting you down to feel for money. The girls triple knot tie bracelts on you to force you to buy them. And if you stare at the guys doing Capoiera for more than a split second, they ask for money!!
It started to rain at one point, so everyone went against the walls! A 10 year old boy pinned another 6 year old boy against a railing, climbed up the railing, and started humping the 6 year old’s face! I started to laugh my ASS off and Matt felt really uncomfortable!
Matt’s bro had come to town and we all made our way to the ‘after party’ at some place where the locals were playing liva samba. It was REALLY awesome, except for what ended up happening when Matt’s bro & Flo went back to the youth hostel. This guy from Denmark was being led out of the club to a dark alley, which is what Beatu told us to look out for. We told him in English to not go because they were going to rob him and probably stab him. Then one guy goes up to Matt and says “You are white and I am black, I hate white guys” I looked at Matt and said “dude, walk away.” We were both really frustrated at this point with this city and ready to explode.
We took the british & astonian girl back to their hotel. On our way there, a cop pulled a gun out at a woman and Matt looked like deer in headlights. I told him “if you look any longer, you might be starring at the barrel of the gun.” We left the girls and made it back to our place to tell Matt’s bro and Flo not to leave.
5 minutes after we walk in, a group of guys from some part of Europe got jumped, one guy had his teeth knocked out for his watch. We spent the rest of the night hanging out at the hostel, talking, laughing, and filming stuff.
I leave tomorrow to Sao Paolo then Los Angeles. I spend less than 24 hours in LA, then on the 18th I fly off to Athens, Greece to meet my girlfriend’s family and get ENGAGED ON THE GREEK ISLANDS! WOO WOO…
I just hope the guy at the hostel wakes me up on time 
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