Went on a Rotary trip the 28.10.11 to Pantanal e Bonito. It was epic!!
Dianas parents drove me, Evan and Diana to São Paulo where we met all the others. Then we got on the trip bus. And off we went. We drove the hole day, had a noght in Campo Grande and then we drove half of the day again. That was some looooooong hours in the bus. When we arrived to the hotel in Bointo we put our bags in our rooms and changed to bikinis. Then we went river rafting. It was so much fun! Even though it wasn't that wild. But it was fun, we had waterfights between the boats and we lost our bucket twice and someone from one of the other boats stole one of our paddles once. I started out with sharing room with another danish girl, a girl from Italy and a girl from Canada. But the last two were in the other bus so they left us thursday morning. We went out to a forrest place Sunday, we swam and walked and swam some more. We even jumped out from 6 metres. And yes, I did it too! I also tried to hold a snake that day. It felt really weird! At night we went downtown.
We tried tubing at Monday, that was so much fun! And we went on a tree walk after lunch. We were walking over the forrest. It was a bit difficult in the end. My group played volleyball and football while we were waiting for the other group to do the tree thing. I actually tried both! And I sucked at both... But at least I tried. We had a party for us exchangers at the hotel that night. It was a lot of fun and you got to see how people from different countries danced.
The people from the other bus were gone when we got up Tuesday. We went to a place where you can snorkle in a really clear river and see all the fish there. It was cool, until I started thinking about the movie "Piranhas" That kinda ruined everything... We went to give some presents to some orphans after lunch. That was really interesting and it was nice to see them happy. We got 2 new roomies, one from Italy again and one from Mexico. We went downtown again after dinner.
We went to a cave with a really blue lake. It was sooooo prettyyyyyy! But I really suck at climbing up and down rocks. That I know for sure now. I got my legs "tattooed" after dinner. I let one girl from Austria write on my leg and all of a sudden my legs went blue. It took me 3 days to get it off me. But it was fun though.
We went to a farm in Pantanal thursday. It was fun. They had a pool there. The water in that pool was soooo disgusting and dirty. But we stayed there a lot. Because it was so freaking hot in Pantanal. Then my group went horseback riding. That was pretty even though I had some problems with my horse. But I got to see the sunset there, So prettyyyy. We went camping after dinner. There was a lot of bugs.... I hate bugs.... But we had a camp fire and we cooked bananas and rolled them in cinnamon. It was good. Then we slept in tents. I slept on the ground in the tent. That was hard. We got up at 6 and then I got to see the sun rise too. Pretty.
We went on a safari after breakfest. But I didn't see that many animals. And we fished for piranhas after lunch. I caught 6! So proud of myself. Some of us went swimming in the ppol after that. I became green! That was fun! I used a whole soap and 30 minutes in the shower to get not green again.
Then I used my weekend in the bus. Saying goodbye to everybody. It was pretty sad. And I was sooooo tired!
But it was an amazing trip and I now have more friends all over the world!
Beijos Emma