So this weekend was amazing and amazingly jam packed. On Friday after class everyone was kind of panicing about what beach they wanted to go to because some plans had been made to go to Ilhabela but some people were backing out because it´s so far away. Some other kids, namely Jacob, David and Raf were going to go to this other beach, Guaruja, that is only about an hour away so I went with them and booked it to the bus terminal. Some other girls, Logan, Tiye and Joanna wanted to come too but we couldnt find them at the bus station and after waiting around a while, we just left.
We got to the bus station at Guaruja and found the girls! Can you believe it? Its the magic of IHP, I tell ya. Seriously, there have been some beyond hopeful situations in which the magic of IHP united us-it exists. Anyway, they had met a surfer guy on the bus who had said not to go to the beach at Guaruja we were originally planning on going to...cuz its really sketchy I guess. And he also said some of us kids could stay at his place (which turned out to be a 7 bedroom bachelor pad). Four of the kids went to stay at his place and me, Raf and Jacob stayed at a hotel.
We got to the beach and even though it was around 6, jumped right in! This is us just after...sharing some drinks on the beach and appreciating that we were not in class and that we were instead on a beach in freakin Brazil. It was so beautiful and nice! We grabbed some dinner and then spent the night walking the beach/going into the ocean. The next morning we hit the beach again and it was CROWDED. Aside from the beach-goers, there were hundreds of people selling drinks, food, hats, dresses, DVDs, pool toys, anything. Logan joked that we could have put our umbrellas on their sides and built a house out of the stuff people were selling. That is probably true. We all spent the day in the water and under the umbrella...but unfortunately we all pretty much got burned, me the worst (cuz im the palest!) We headed home and passed outttt.
The next day, Sunday, all of us went to Anne´s house cuz shes from Brazil and lives about an hour away. This is it although she has much more land with a lake, ponies, fishing, a pool, and just lots of grass and trees!
Her parents made us an ungodly amount of food. It was a BBQ which means that they had their cooks continuely making every type of meat imaginable for the entire time we were there (like...7 hours?) Thats a lot of food. And they had fruit, fried yucca, vegetables, rice, a bowl of candy, peanuts, other nuts, palm hearts and tomato, potato chips, and various alcoholic drinks passed around that were yum yum good.
They had also rented an inflatable soccer field that you put soap and water on to make it slippery. That shit was hard! My brain felt like it got a little knocked around after playing Elana and Gabi (my roommate...gotta get that aggression toward her out!). We also played some ultimate frisbee (Michael playing with one hand while the other held a beer and cigarette-such a team player!), visited the lake, ponies and baby cows and generally lounged around. It was a much needed break.
This is the pool which the majority of time was spent in. More sunburns! Even kids who have never gotten sunburned in their lives are getting burned here. The sun in Sao Paulo is so strong.
This is Nik´hit, our trustees fellow. He did IHP a few years ago and is now serving as the go-between for students and faculty/teachers. We basically come to Nikhit with our problems and he is like, the coolest guy in the world so...it works out.
And this is one of Anne´s ponies. Tis all!
We got to the bus station at Guaruja and found the girls! Can you believe it? Its the magic of IHP, I tell ya. Seriously, there have been some beyond hopeful situations in which the magic of IHP united us-it exists. Anyway, they had met a surfer guy on the bus who had said not to go to the beach at Guaruja we were originally planning on going to...cuz its really sketchy I guess. And he also said some of us kids could stay at his place (which turned out to be a 7 bedroom bachelor pad). Four of the kids went to stay at his place and me, Raf and Jacob stayed at a hotel.
We got to the beach and even though it was around 6, jumped right in! This is us just after...sharing some drinks on the beach and appreciating that we were not in class and that we were instead on a beach in freakin Brazil. It was so beautiful and nice! We grabbed some dinner and then spent the night walking the beach/going into the ocean. The next morning we hit the beach again and it was CROWDED. Aside from the beach-goers, there were hundreds of people selling drinks, food, hats, dresses, DVDs, pool toys, anything. Logan joked that we could have put our umbrellas on their sides and built a house out of the stuff people were selling. That is probably true. We all spent the day in the water and under the umbrella...but unfortunately we all pretty much got burned, me the worst (cuz im the palest!) We headed home and passed outttt.
The next day, Sunday, all of us went to Anne´s house cuz shes from Brazil and lives about an hour away. This is it although she has much more land with a lake, ponies, fishing, a pool, and just lots of grass and trees!
Her parents made us an ungodly amount of food. It was a BBQ which means that they had their cooks continuely making every type of meat imaginable for the entire time we were there (like...7 hours?) Thats a lot of food. And they had fruit, fried yucca, vegetables, rice, a bowl of candy, peanuts, other nuts, palm hearts and tomato, potato chips, and various alcoholic drinks passed around that were yum yum good.
They had also rented an inflatable soccer field that you put soap and water on to make it slippery. That shit was hard! My brain felt like it got a little knocked around after playing Elana and Gabi (my roommate...gotta get that aggression toward her out!). We also played some ultimate frisbee (Michael playing with one hand while the other held a beer and cigarette-such a team player!), visited the lake, ponies and baby cows and generally lounged around. It was a much needed break.
This is the pool which the majority of time was spent in. More sunburns! Even kids who have never gotten sunburned in their lives are getting burned here. The sun in Sao Paulo is so strong.
This is Nik´hit, our trustees fellow. He did IHP a few years ago and is now serving as the go-between for students and faculty/teachers. We basically come to Nikhit with our problems and he is like, the coolest guy in the world so...it works out.
And this is one of Anne´s ponies. Tis all!
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