THE JOURNEY SO UNFORGETABLE'''

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THE JOURNEY SO UNFORGETABLE...!!
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On the 1st evening after I came back from school
, I had a whole lot of messages waiting from the
various news papers to speak to me about my
brazil trip. This was also a good learning
experience answering questions about a worlds
which I had not been but only read and heard
about, the program details and discussions with
Activity was a big help indeed. On the 2nd
morning each and every news paper carried the
news about the Horlicks Wiz Team visiting Brazil.
I had finished with most of my packing in the
proceeding week but the last minute tit-bit on
the fresh weather report was taken care off. We
boarded the train to Mumbai. So after all the
waiting I finally reached the Mumbai airport to
start with the wonderful experience and I met
Shrea didi and Anees at the airport but we were
to meet Afrah didi , Sultan sir and Naina maam
at the Dubai airport. Mumbai was like a part of
the reunion but Dubai airport when we all met it
felt like a family reunion.
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Now after all the reunion we were all ready to
move on for the journey about which we had no
clue at all. We knew our schedule was going to
be tight and the itinerary was self explanatory
that this hard work would expose us to something
which we would never be able to gather ourselves
and I thank Horlicks and Activity for giving us
such a opportunity. Wow! 16 hours is what it
takes a bowing 777 to reach Sao Paulo
international airport from Dubai. Thanks to our
organizers we got to travel in the best airlines
in the world. I watched about 4 movies , ate
Naina mams head talking, learnt chess from
Sultan sir and slept. We finally reached Sao
Paulo at 2300 local time. There our interpreter
Mariana and Isis the coordinator, gave us a warm
welcome , the Brazilian way and quickly we hopped
on with all our luggage in Oscars Marci dies
van and were told the well have Oscar and
Mariana joining us almost every where during our
stay in brazil. The first look of brazil from
Sao Paulo (one of the worlds most populated
towns ) was great- fantastic airport, warm people
,good roads, so all in all I was driving through
a great city.
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So after an excellent drive through we reached
TRYP ITAIM , a lovely 20 storied building with
fantastic rooms, a terrace pool ,gym - although
that's nothing of my interest but it was great.
So we got our room mates and had 20 minutes to
get ready and come down for dinner. The dinner
was at Pizza House where we had fabulus pizzas
and for thr 1st time in life I had a chocolate
pizza and a pizza with the heart of the palm.
Interesting. After the dinner we all had had only
sleep in our eyes so we slept and dreamt about
the coming days. So the Sao Paulo venture first
landed us at UMAPAZ with some new Brazilian
friends- Lucas, Julia, Antonio, Jo and at Umapaz
we met Rosy-the director of the place, Leny and
many more. Umapaz was the University of Peace and
Environment. Later we also met people from a
organization called Ashoka and spoke to them
about social affairs and other organizations like
ARCATI and ISPIS. All this made us know a lot
about the work brazil is up to related to the
social affairs. We also went to the
Afro-Brazilian Museum where we actually were able
to differentiate between India and them.
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But my excitement boosted up at the soccer match
we went for between Sao Paulo and Juventus, where
we supported Sao Paulo and they won and that's
not it we also met RAI the ex-soccer player so
was so dynamic. that wasnt it the best was the
exchange program with the school in brazil named
VERACRUZ where we met the children there who took
us around and we exchanged the differences in our
schooling. Later they put up a cultural
performance for us and performed their
traditional dance called Samba they also
performed their traditional dame called Capaveria
in which they fought and danced together. But
now by the 7th it was time for us to say bye to
Sao Paulo and go to Brasilia the capital of
Brazil. Our one day tour was phenomenal , we
started with a lavish breakfast at the
Ambassadors house followed by meeting the
Secretary of Education Mr. André Lazaro with whom
we discussed our projects and he also wrote a
wonderful note for me to remember my visit there.
To add to this we also went to the Presidents
Office and had a cup of coffee and then to put a
little stop to the V.I.P visits we ended up
seeing the session between the Senate and
Congress at the Parliament. And on the way back
to the airport we saw the wonderfully planed city
which is not even 60 years old.
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So after the wonderful tour to Brasilia we left
for our next destination that was a little
sea-side town PARATY where we got a chance to
meet the ex-slave community . It was all together
a different experience where we had delicious
black been and rice and danced with the children
their in their style. After which we also had a
blast on the cruise where it felt like being in
paradise. We in fact found star fish at shore on
the beach we stopped and got to hold them and
thats not it we also did snorkeling, swimming
followed by an excellent meal at the cruise
Later that evening it rained , so the wiz team
decided to cook for everyone. It was a wonderful
evening and we played ,ate, chatted and
relaxed. Know the trip was almost coming to an
end which didnt real made us feel good but all
good things must come to an end so the battalion
reached its final destination Rio De Janeiro
where we started our last day with a fantastic
breakfast at our hotel followed by a discussion
with the Superintendent of Education and a
representative from The School of Inclusion and
later finished our trip with enjoying the
Copacabana beach, The Christ the Redeemer and
Sugarloaf mountains..
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Finally the time arrived when we realized that
its time to say good bye to each other and thats
when tears rolled down my eyes , I just couldnt
imagine the fact that I lived my dream and its
time to go back into reality leaving behind
people who became my family and remember these 10
days as memories of the 10 best days of my
life.this trip was surly a JOURNEY JUST SO
UNFORGETABLE and not only because of the thighs
I did and saw but also because of the people I
spent time with