Oh yeah... I said I was gonna blog about amazon today :/

Oops.. well that really didn't happen at all... I slept.. ALL day :| I didn't think that was even possible.. I woke up at 7:30 to take a tablet then went online to see if any cool cats from Aus were there. Talked to Zane for a little while.. went back to sleep. Woke up for lunch, checked facebook, went back to sleep then woke up again at like 5 :| I even slept through the maid cleaning up my room... HOW?! I'm so weirded out about this.. So anyway... Amazon....
April 30th: pack everything the day we leave. Good job :) Drive to Ursula's in Joinville, chill with exchangers, watch movies and eat insane amounts of pizza :D
May 1st: Wake up at 4:30am thinking it's a joke, try to go back to sleep.. it's no joke.. everyone's up. Get up, get on the bus to Curitiba airport.. sleep. Arrive at the airport.. buy gum.. wait.. wait.. wait........... blah blah blah.. PLANE YEA! Okay, not that exciting.. I'm over planes now. Go to Brasilia (capital! I've pretty much travelled all over Brasil already - to the airports >.>) SO MANY GERMANS! Wait some more.. Wow this is boring.. PLANE! YEA! Once again.. not so exciting.. Get to Manaus and catch a bussss... travelling is just such fun. Anyway. Bus it to a hotel..

Got this welcome drink thingy.. it was an Amazon fruit drink.. don't remember what it was called but it tasted pretty good! Hmmm oh yeah. Went to our rooms, only took like ten minutes to walk there :| Seriously. The hotel was INSANE! Freaking huge! Ohhh, and it was soooooooooooooo hot there. Ridiculous! So humid and ick. >_< So we got changed and went to the pooool, but didn't go in :/ Went and bought HOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! FACEWASH!!! (inside joke..HAHA you're on the OUTSIDE! ..unless you're Gabi or Sophia.. or anyone else that heard the story..) Bought some braclets and things for the blazer.. Then everyone got changed into BLUE, listened to Bernardo talk for.. ages. Ate insane amounts of pizza again, then hopped on a bus (woo more travelling) to watch the reheasal of the biggest folkloric festival in Brasil - The Parintins Festival. There are two main characters, Boi Caprichoso - represented by a blue star, and Boi Garantido - represented by a red heart. We went to the Caprichoso one.. obviously...

see, blue.
So that was pretty damn coool! Roughly 5000 people there ALL dressed in blue and everyone knew the dances.. except us :/ So we were just enjoying the music and attempting to copy people.. :P I got pulled into the middle of a circle and won a free t-shirt for dancing.. :D The Caprichoso t-shirt.. WIN!
May 2nd: Hmmm, struggling to remember here... I never remember what the places are called... but went SOMEWHERE and walked around this lame place for a while around a smelly river.. (poor area) Looked at a big.. statue? I dunno, can't think of the word.. and got a picture being oh so proud to be Australian with my first time unfolded flag (THAT GABI STILL HAS!)

Then went into a little shop/museum thing maybe? I dunno. I stepped in poop on the way there though >_> awesome start to the day. Then to a big.. place :/ I don't even know what it was, but we weren't allowed to use the flash on our cameras.. the best part about that place was where you put on these funny slippers and slid all around the floor.. haha.. That was fun..... and thennnn, next place (I think this was all in the same day) Went to ANOTHER place, more museum-y.. made friends with a crocodile (it's the best I can do)

Looked at some fish, spiders, butterflies.. all that.. Found a cool drum thing that Sophia and I made a sweeeet beat out of.. There's a video somewhere. I may youtube it later. Then found some huuuge fruit thing on a tree out the front.. I was so amazed by it. :P Really, it was cool...

COOOL RIGHT?! eh, whatevs... I thought so ;P
Hmmm I believe it was more bussing after this.. OH YEAH, bus to the cabins.. unfortunately our bus broke down though >_> for two hours.. no reception or anything, I don't know how they got the other bus to come back.. :s Cause when we finally got there the people on the other bus said they had no idea that our bus had stopped.. hmmmmmm. Oh... check out the road we broke down on too.. click and zoom to see the long never endingness of it too.. it was like this the other way as well..

Oh the horrible longness... -.-
So.. that night.. got there.. waited.. ate some fewd.. waited some more. Watched 4 people dance to the Boi Garantido music.. (The red one) for a little while, waited for the bus to get back with everyone's luggage so we could go trekking in the jungle. Which we did.. At midnight >_> I was sooo tired by then. Really didn't want to go.. but DID cause.. well yeah, who goes trekking at midnight through the Amazon? :s So yeah, went into a cave..

Jeez, I look rather tired.. hmm walked out of the cave, trekked through some water (I like that word.. trekked) saw a REALLY BIG SPIDER!

Yeah, that sure is my finger :| hmmmm, walked (I'm sure you're getting sick of "trekked" by now) for like another hour or.. a very long time.. got super tired got to the end and well.. see for yourself..

Yeah, then a car came and 60 odd exchange students bolted off the road.. it wasn't even a car.. it was a VERY slow motorbike >_> fail exchangers.. fail! Oh haha, when we got back I taught some kids the cup game :P (The game the inbounds taught us last year :D)
May 3rd: I believe was the day we got on the boat.. BUT FIRST.. still at the cabins.. we walked down this.. road? I guess I dunno, walked through some more forest and saw a cool waterfall thingy, then went down the bottom where the water was more calm and swam, for ages :) was nice.. but the water was.. reddy/orangey.. kind of.. turn off-ish but still.. Turns out the water was that colour where ever we went :s Look, water.

swim swim.. rocks.. bruise. >_> Stop swimming..... back to the cabins.. shower change annnnnnd. BUS! Again >_> annnnnnd boat :3 Not much on the boat til night... then went out on the canoe annnnd CAUGHT A CROCODILE! YEA!

Cool right?
May 4th: I do not remember... so.. read all that and I will edit with THE REST!.....
To be continued.... Oooooooooh. Also.. I started writing this two days ago... :/ Fail Luci.. Fail.. I've been hibernating since I got back from Amazon.. Today (14th) was the first time I've been outside since I got back :|