Another adventure

I've been planning a trip to Northern Brazil for the past 2 weeks. My friend and I finally decide to get the tickets together but the stupid airline websites won't let us buy them. Apparently, you need a CPF # that only Brazilians that live here have! So after wasting 2 whole days searching online and trying and re-trying I decided I couldn't wait any longer. My friend said she would come at 10am on Friday morning to come and help. She never showed up. Its the typical Brazilian thing, they can't say no. So I wanted till after lunch and decided I was tired of relying on other people. I think I'm independent in that way that I don't like to depend on other people for things I need to have done. I rather do things myself then to delegate tasks to other people. So I asked my friend how to take the bus and wrote it all down and went my way. I had this excited, yet nervous feeling. I was starting to really enjoy these moments of true independence. I found the right bus with the word AEROPORTO labelled on it like my friend said and it was a Heaven sent that a guy that worked for GOL (a big airline here) was sitting in the first seat (a good sign). Even with everything, I still felt a little doubtful, because the bus was taking so long to get to the airport and all these people kept getting one! Surely they aren't ALL going to the airport too with all those shopping bags. At that point I realized, the similarity between taking the bus and life. Sometimes you are given all the right signs of where you should be going but you still doubt yourself. You don't fully believe in yourself. I go through that a lot. That uncertain feeling that always holds me back a little but I realized that you just have to learn to listen to your gut and my gut was saying this was right. So I arrived after 45 mins and after walking around the airport 3 times, I found the place to get my tickets. The guy took forever because he kept wanting to practise his English with me. I was just happy I made it there was able to save R$130 by taking a R$2 bus to get there. Unfortunately, waiting for the bus to go back was annoying. There was this really annoying old guy that wouldn't leave me alone and trying to get a little too friendly. What's with me and old/weirdo people!? Go away!! I was about an hour late for my AIESEC meeting but I was so happy after 4 phone calls to my friend that I arrived to the other University for the meeting. I felt really good that I was able to accomplish one of my challenges.

The morning I was supposed to run with my roommates and they didn't wake up on time so I decided, I'll just go by myself and try to figure out where the nearest park was so I could run. Again, I wasn't really sure of where I would be lead to but I let myself explore and I found it:) It was like walking through the jungle with dense trees everywhere, a lot better then the city park. Another lesson I realized with this was that sometimes you just have to step out of your comfort zone to discover new treasures and not to be afraid because even though you don't know where you're going, there is already a path ready for you. You just have to let yourself discover it.