Carnaval and Ski

THE BRAZILIAN PARTY
This weekend was really fun. I got better from my flu and I was feeling able to go out. Last Saturday we had the official Brazilian carnival in Calgary. So, I went with my friends Dave, Athena, her brother, Angela, Melissa and Sean. Well, I believe more than half of people there were Brazilians and everyone was speaking Portuguese. That’s kind of strange for me. We watch a capoeira presentation, which was AWESOME! And a Brazilian band played lots of samba and axe just like our carnival! The funniest thing was seeing the Canadians a bit shocked with our songs and the way of dance. As you Brazilians know, we just jump, and walk around, do crazy things and some girls of course can samba very well but…afterwards they got into the rhythm and started dancing and jumping around!! It was a typical Brazilian carnival club taking place in Canada! Really fun!


SKIING AT CANADA OLYMPIC PARK
On Sunday I decided to go to COP – Canada Olympic Park, where the Olympic games took place in 1988. Well, my first time skiing. I loved it! I had some lessons from the instructor and i realized it’s not that easy! During the training I simply fell down in front of the instructor. And you know, it’s really hard to get up!
My first attempt down hill I went so fast, I had no idea it would be like that but fortunately I stopped and a relief breath came out!! Ufa! I’m alive!
But when I went to the ramp to go up for one more trial the stupidest thing happened! One leg got on and another got out of the ramp. Inevitably, I fell again. I was being dragged up with my ski and with my legs up on the air. It was embarrassing!! They had to stop the ramp to help me out! Well, Brazilians don’t give up right!! And there I was again! I did the same thing, went down fast but I was good!! Excited I just wanted to go again, but this time I wanted to make a movie with my camera! So, I went up carefully and down again, fast as a rocket! But I did it very well! The instructor had just told me he was worried about me, cause I was going very fast and because i I was going to kill myself if i didn't learn to how to stop very well specially going fast . So, he advised me to traine by myself the basics of stop and turn over! I was tired that time, so I did what he said and I was done! Oh, about the movie, something happened and it didn’t recorded. So, a few minutes later, 20min to be exactly, my friends encouraged me to go again and make my movie. Well, there I was again. I went up and alone, without the instructor guy. I was really thinking to myself: what the hell am I doing here??? And I started going down…As you may imagine, I was going faster and faster and I didn’t know how to stop, and I was about to crash into something, and I couldn’t help it so fell on snow again…that’s it! Recorded for life memories!! First and perhaps last time skiing!!
I don’t regret! It was AWESOME!!! I loved it! Really fun!







Eldon and me
...Good to go!