Say goodbye day
Trip Start
Oct 19, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Belo Horizonte,
Brazil
Friday, December 28, 2007
Cleiber and I go to another park reserve just outside of Belo to try to find another waterfall but we just end up walking around in circles (literally). As we are driving out of the park a lady and her daughter stop us as they need a ride into town (well then pick em up). They actually need a ride to the shopping mall which is a bit out of the way but Cleiber is exceedingly kind and has no problem taking them there.
BTW: It is illegal to drive in Belo with your shirt off. In fact if you are in a car you have to have a shirt on or you can get a ticket. This amazes me esp considering damn near everything is legal in Brazil. I mean you can drink in a car, run red lights, hump prostitutes, and drink when you are basically a fetus but riding in a car with your shirt off is a big no no. What??? Damn it, I get confused again.
Today turns out to be Say Goodbye Day. We head over to Julianna`s so I can say goodbye to Scintia, her brother and her now sober mother. Then we roll over to his uncle`s restaurant so I can say goodbye to him. He lets us eat there for free which is super cool of him. Cleiber never has to pay but they go through the same ritual every time. Cleiber offers to pay and his uncle never lets him. We then jet over to James Bond`s crib to hang with him for awhile. And of course, he feeds us too. Some lady there (I have no idea who she is, maybe the nurse or something who takes care of Cleiber`s grandma who is like 145 years old and has lost half the pigmentation in her skin and is half off her rocker, but being that old she should be) ends up taking Cleiber`s blood pressure just to fuck around. Then she takes James Bond`s blood pressure and I start cracking up because he`s fucking smoking a cigarette during the procedure (why do you say I`m going to take your blood pressure or I`m going to take your temperature, oh yeah, where are you going to take it, shouldn`t you say I`m going to measure your blood pressure or measure your temperature). Nobody even noticed this until they asked why I was laughing. What`s not funny is that me and James Bond have the same blood pressure. Whoa, I should start exercising or something.
Then we go back to Cleiber`s pad and of course his mother made us pizza, and thank god, because I`m like really hungry, not. His mom gives me some cookies for my bus ride and like 200 hugs. Clieber`s aunt comes over and gives me some soap, hmmmm, that`s odd, I know I`m not like the cleanest person esp on this trip but damn. I promise myself I will shower more often. Julianna and Cleiber take me to the bus station and wait with me which is cool of them especially since the bus is 30 minutes late. Give em a hug and I`m off. I will definitely miss Cleiber and his friends and family but time to move on. I owe his family a huge gratitude for making my first xmas away from home very memorable and fun and for doing what they could to make sure I felt at home.
I have a 14 hour bus ride and I`m not looking foward to it.
Fin
