I am less than 10 days away from the biggest trip of my life. By biggest, I mean longest, furthest, most amazing trip ever in my life! Next Friday, I'll be traveling to Buenos Aires (that's in Argentina) and then onto Rio de Janeiro (yep, in Brasil) to broaden my horizons!
Is it un-American to point out that they beat us at soccer and a few other things...
I know most of my readers are either a) from families that allowed them to explore the world as students or b) studied abroad (I guess a and b are the same), but I'm a whole different story. I worked non-stop (well, I took the summer before college off) from age 11 through college and never took a backpacking trip to Europe or a family trip to Belize or learned how to speak Japanese by spending a semester in Osaka. The longest trip I have ever taken my entire life is five days. And that was my trip to Seattle and Vancouver last year.
So let's just say this is a long time coming. I've wanted to go to Brasil since college and I've been planning to go for four years. Finally, it's just around the corner. The only thing holding me back at this point is an outbreak of the H1N1 Virus in Argentina or a Visa denial from the Consulate of Brasil. [Pretty please let me in...]
Otherwise, this time less than two weeks from now I'll be doing the following:
1. Hitting the beach at Ipanema
2. Seeing the beautiful Christ the Redeemer statue
3. Checking out Sugar Loaf, one of the most famous sights in Brasil
4. Avoiding the neighborhood where City of God was filmed (although I've been told I could pass for a Brasilian)
5. Going skydiving (again)
6. Enjoying 75-degree weather in the winter
7. Eating fruit like crazy...now this is my kind of country!
8. Checking out apartments
9. Looking for a job
10. Sending letters to you all with my new home address and phone number!
bon voyage!!!
Posted by: colby | July 09, 2009 at 03:28 AM