So I arrived at about 3pm on Friday and that was an alright day, I spent 3 hours at this mall that used to be a prison and there was a museum at the top floor that explains the history about Recife. This city is about 400 something years old, started in 1637 or something like that and supposedly this is where Brazil first started! So a lot of the place is really old looking. I really love the historical buildings. It's nice to see the contrast in this country, where I lived in the newest city in Brazil (Brasilia) that's about 50 years old and then now to this almost 500 years old city. I really was in awe with the history behind all the buildings. Then I walked through the whole super expensive mall and then went to the liveria cultura (bookstore) to listen to a ton of CDs while waiting for Carol to return from work. The Linkin Park CD I was listening to was really good. I think its their most recent one.
So on Sunday we went to Porto de Galinhas. We took 1 hour to drive there. It was nice, I got to hear my theme song from my trip in BH. I have no idea of the song's name but I'll figure it out one day soon. "Boys don't cry" by Fergie was the theme song for going there. It wasn't a sunny day afterall so I was kinda sad about that. Its been raining everyday since the day I got here! I don't know why no one warned me, I would have gone to Fortaleza instead! (Fortaleza is a city that EVERYONE has told me is beautiful and so much fun but no, I thought knowing someone in a city and having a place to stay was just as important.) I'm kinda regretting that choice right now. Anyways, we paid R$8 to go on this tiny boat or raft to go to the rocks close to the shore. Then they had pools of water in the rocks so we could swim in them. Every little pool of water had fish in it and we swam in the biggest one with a bunch of fish. We also jumped into the ocean in another area where the raft took us and swam with the fishies there. That was one of the coolest parts of the day. We walked around the place for a while looking at their different shops and finding presents for my grandparents and cousins. My friend was also determined to find a Brazilian style bathing suit. I was kinda annoyed that my host friend is always introducing me as the friend that Canada that doesn't speak Portuguese. Frick, I've been here for 2 months and I've been trying really hard to learn so give me so credit! I like that my friends understand that, and tell people that I can speak a little and I understand more or less what's going on.
Some of the pools of water.
The pool of water that is the map of Brasil!
Swimming with the fishes! There were SO MANY, we all got kinda freaked out.
We ended the day at about 4:30pm and drove with the sunsetting along the road. It was super pretty and I saw the coolest clouds. I was exhausted the sun drains all my energy. While in the car ride home we listened to the radio on how the Brasil game against Argentina was going for the American Cup. Yea, that's how crazy they are about soccer. We were supposed to go out to a pub to watch the game with a group of AIESECers but that didn't work out. Too bad because it would have been cool to see the game with other Brasilians who were going crazy when they scored the goals and won the game.
Road going back home.
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