Arrived in Sao Paulo at 6.00am Saturday 19th August after a 12 hour flight from London. Sat in between a woman and a good looking fella but did not get any sleep whatsoever and the food was horrific on the plane.
Took me an hour to go through passport control and get my 2 huge suitcases that were the last on the conveyor belt. I then rang my mum to see where she was and told me she was still at home...... No she did not do that by accident.. She thought that it would take me more than an hour to collect my baggage. So I sat in a cafe in the airport for another hour until her and my godmother finally arrived. By this point I was not happy; no sleep, no food... I just wanted to go home and sleep for the whole day.
So Bia, my godmother, picked me up with my mum and we headed to her place. 45 minutes later we had arrived at her crib and her cleaner/cook had made me a carrot cake with a chocolate topping... I gobbled up a slice and then headed to the nearest sofa to have a nap. As soon as I closed my eyes, I was interrupted by a couple of family friends that came by to say hello to me. As polite as I am, I pretended to be fast asleep but this did not work as these two very rude boys jumped on me as their greeting. Fabio and Victor are family friends about 16 I think. I was then told by my mum that my uncle was hosting a family bbq at 11.30am.. I had 1 hour to get ready and go. By this point I did not feel like doing anything but since most of my family were going and I hadn't seen them in a year or more, I decided to hop in the shower and quickly get ready.
At around 11 few other friends arrived and we started to head out to my uncle, Wilson's, house. One problem was that only one of us knew the way there, my mum, so there were 2 cars following a speedy little black car.. The thing is in Sao Paulo, there are a lot of little black cars and too much crazy driving. So I was in one of the cars that was following my mum and we got lost a few times but eventually after what felt like hours, we arrived at the bbq.
My uncle's house is lovely, with a nice pool, monkeys in the back yard with the forest/woods and a house at the back of the garden especially for bbqs. As I walked through the garden I greeted my cousins, aunts, uncles and other family friends. It was great seeing everyone but I was very hungry so I hurried to the kitchen area of the building and was greeted by a man who was cooking and making drinks for everyone. He was a nice a little chap. The meat was not ready so I just sat at a table munching on some salad and rice... I then asked this chap to make me a caipirinha with strawberries and pineapple...... It was fantastic, very tasty!
So after a few hours we ate some meat, some chicken, some other things that tasted amazing.
Some people started to leave after a while and so were we until one of my aunt's came up to my mum and said that her aunt Melia/Amelia (I am not too sure of her name) had passed away and her funeral would be on Monday. So my mum decided that we should stay at my uncle's that night so we could all go to the funeral together. I had never met this woman before so I felt a bit annoyed that I had to go but oh well!
Some friends of my cousin, Joao, began to arrive and we started to chat along. My other cousin, Marcos, said that one of the friends was checking me out even though he had a girlfriend right next to him so I disregarded that straight away even though he ain't that bad looking...... After drinking a few beers and caipirinhas, my cousin decided that we should all go to the shopping centre and watch a movie. So I was just going along with and ended up in the back of one of his friend's cars. We then ended up in.... I forgot the name but this place.. and started to drink some more beers in Applebee's (this americanised restaurant) and we didn't stop until the movie we wanted to watch was on so we hurried to the cinema and started watching this movie,.... Joao said it was Batman but we ended up seeing 'Paraisos Artificais' which means Artifical Paradise which was absolute shit and boring and I just wanted to sleep.
So that ended and we went home and I slept and that was day 1
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