Melina 8/10/10Monday morning was a depressing morning. We only had two days left with our host, my host sister left for the rest our time to play for her high school team out of town. It was so sad saying goodbye to Julia early; Kaitlin and I were almost in tears saying goodbye to her and our other new friends leaving, like Natalia.
The rest of us went to the Curimim children’s project. Then our team headed to the children’s project. It was heartbreaking to see all those little, deserving kids in those conditions. Even though we were sad, we still had a ton of fun playing with the kids. All the kids were so happy and that made us even sadder. None of us wanted to leave.
After the project we spent the rest of the day relaxing by the pool. It was fun tanning, swimming and playing with the football until we were told to stop. After the pool we went shopping for flip flops. There were so many different pairs to choose from. I only got one pair, but some people got up to six pairs!
Monday night Jade, Miah, Lara, Taylor, Kaitlin, and I had a movie night. We chose to watch a movie on Jade’s laptop, which would’ve been fine except that no one knew how to hook it up to the projector. It took a solid thirty minutes to figure out how to work it. It was well worth it though, the movie was really funny.
Tuesday was a good day. Kaitlin and I went to Minas early and got a manicure and pedicure for only 25 Reis! That’s only about 15 dollars in the U.S., which is really cheap. Then our team and a few of the Minas players we got to know went to Minas Country, another club of Minas in the hills above Belo Horizonte for a barbeque.
The food was delicious and the club was super pretty. They had a giant pool and slide which they opened for us. The water was really warm, and fun to play in, and the slide was also really fun.
My favorite part was the monkeys. We had talked about maybe seeing some beforehand and I really wanted to. They were so adorable! They were small with long tails and white faces. They made some weird sounds too. We got bananas and were actually able to feed them; it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. They aren’t afraid, and come right up to you and grab the piece of banana with their little hands. I made sure I took lots of pictures to bring back.
After the barbeque we went to Pastel’s for dinner. It’s probably the best restaurant in Belo Horizonte, their food is just amazing. The bill was really expensive but no matter how hard we tried our host refused to let us help pay. Then we all went to our homes to pack our stuff to leave for Rio the next day.
Before Kaitlin and I did though, we went shopping with our host parents. It was fun getting to see another mall in Brazil. They helped us pick out gifts for our parents and also bought us a few Brazil things of our own. We both felt bad though because the shirts were kind of expensive.
After shopping, we went home to pack. Our goal was to stay up all night too, but that didn’t really work out, so we ended up getting a good couple hours of sleep before meeting the rest of the team at Minas to board the bus to the airport.
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