What a journey...

Finally, I got to see the one thing that I have wanted to see this whole trip. I can see the Christ from where I work on the beach because it is lit up with lights. I got to see it up close and it is quite a sight up close. We had a long journey to get there, but once we did it was awesome. It was trippy, though, because when you would look up at the Christ it looked as if it was moving with the clouds moving behind. It was almost as if the whole statue was about to fall on us. The view from the Christ was by far the best view I have seen yet, you could see everything. I got to see one of the 7 wonders of the world as well as one of the 7 natural wonders of the world at the same moment... muito legal.

I haven't been blogging because I am soaking in every last drop of this place. Two more amazing people have left in the last few days and it really hit me that things are changing and I am about to return home. Dennis and Indi had a goodbye barbeque at Dennis's house and it was the perfect way to say goodbye. All the volunteers were together that night and it was great food with great people. I was the last one to leave that night because I wanted a proper goodbye. The old group of us is finally separating. There was a group of us volunteers that all got really close and bonded in unlikely ways. These are people that I would have not become friends with if I hadn't been forced into this situation. This situation being that I did not have my friends from home at my side here, so I was not surrounded by my comfort zone. I had to make brand new friends and every single one of them has showed me my potential in different ways. They have impacted my life more than they know and I had no idea I would come across such great people on this journey. Saying goodbye to Dennis was when it really hit me, and I walked out of that house with tears that I could not hold back. It hit me so hard because I realized that these people have become my best friends here in Brazil and I don't know when I am going to see them again. Indi left a few days later and I became really close with her. It was hard saying goodbye to her because I lost my closest friend here, but I am grateful for the time we had. I have barely talked to my best friends or family at home, which seems odd thinking about it, but I realized I chose to do this journey on my own and I got everything out of it that I wanted. There is a quote from Eat, Pray, Love that describes this feeling perfectly; "I was the administrator of my own rescue". 

On another note... I am a very clumsy person as is, but here in Brazil my clumsiness has been magnified. I trip over everything, I hit my head on random things, I fall down in unlikely places, and I run into things. O que é isso?! Yesterday, was probably the best fall of them all. I took one step on the stairs at my house and I slipped off the step and went flying down. haha... that is not the funny part. The funny part was that my host mom was sitting on the couch below the stairs and let out a scream that could wake up the whole town. She was more terrified than I was, and kept saying stuff in portuguese, and we both just bursted into laughter. I can still picture her face and her scream... hilarious. Thinking about falls... some random guy riding his bike along the beach might just get the award for the best fall of the year. Indi and I saw the whole thing and died laughing. Even telling the story we could not stop laughing for ages. Days later we tried to tell the story and both of us bursted out laughing and the volunteers kept saying "oh here they go again." I will save that story for another time, but he looked up hoping no one saw it and there we were cracking up... we could not help it. 

I spent the day today at Itiociara beach, but I did not go to the beach. We went to the top of this rock and I wish I brought my camera because it was the most amazing view. An exhausting climb, but soooo worth it. Other than that, I spend my days on some beach playing sports, or eating an açaí with volunteers or my brazilian friends. Life is goodddd. However, I am ready to get on track with my responsibilites. I had the break I have been yearning for about a year, but I am beyond motivated for all the good things to come. Beijos.