Day 11- Sexta 27/5/11

Today was an adventure to say the least. We meet up with all the volunteers for Pizza in Rio de Janeiro with the representatives and it was nice and mellow. Afterwards some of us went out and it ended up being one of the worst nights. Funny though. My roommate lost her phone, so we had to go to the police station and they made her go to a tourist place at 2 in the morning to make sure that it was her phone. We had to wait in Rio for her, so we all went and got some food. Another volunteer lost his camera. Basically, everything went completely opposite as we planned. It was raining most of the night and we had to wait at the ferry for a really long time until the police escorted her to the ferry. They were beyond nice to her. My first night in Lapa (big hang out spot) and I don’t want to return lol. For this being probably being one of the worst nights, I was surprised that we thought everything was so funny. It was almost as if everything was so bad that all you are left to do is laugh about it. We got home at 8:45 in the morning and it was a night to learn from. On the bus back from the ferry to our house, my roommate turns to me and says “this night can’t get any worse.” Wrong. About 5 minutes later it starts to rain. At this point we just started cracking up and probably did not stop laughing for a good 20 minutes. It was just a reminder that life never goes as planned and everything depends on your attitude…