Day 12
Today is the first day in Brazil, finally after being on the Amazon River for 4 days! Waking up early to grab a quick breakfast, we then ventured out into Manaus. Since Alicia had broken BOTH of her cameras in Dominica, we were set to find a camera. Brazil being the top technology place with 4 different malls we knew that we were bound to find one. So after hearing two different times that the mall opened 10am and 2pm we decided to believe that it opened at 10am. After taking a taxi to the mall and it being a 20 minute ride, we get there to realize that it didn’t open until 2pm, of course our luck. There were some other SAS’ers who did the same thing so we decided to walk around with them for a little bit. After about 10 minutes we realized we weren’t going anywhere and took a cab back near the port. There was a festival going on so we hit up downtown and looked at all the different stores and markets that were out. A lot of the stuff was the same and it was nothing to rave over. It was weird though, they were selling some weird things at these markets. Some of them had remote controls, others had kid’s toys, and some things were homemade, but not many. We saw a few dancers putting on a show in the middle of the street, but after walking around in the hot humid air and not buying anything we went back to the ship for some lunch. After lunch we went to the mall, and since there are 4 malls, they all range from very very expensive to pretty cheap. Of course the first one we pick is the most expensive. Not wanting to stay there we decided to walk to the other ones, while doing this we had to cross a REALLY busy road that was kind of like a highway that was really interesting as Brazilians are driving by honking their horn. We finally found a camera and did some other shopping all while being stared at like we had 4 heads. I guess we look really touristy. Except one girl came up to us and asked where we were from and she told us that she was learning English, she was pretty good. That night downtown there was a Samba dance taking place. They do this every Sunday during the festival to practice for the real performance. A lot of Semester at Sea people went, including the deans and the professors. We all got to dance as they were playing their instruments. At the end they made a speech about how we American’s were here and that they were really happy to have us. It was a great way to end the first night in Brazil.
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