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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 onlyread 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 weekbut 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 sirand 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 thankHorlicks 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 fromSultan sir and slept.

We finally reached Sao Paulo at 23:00 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 wellhave 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 1sttime 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 VERACRUZwhere 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. Andr Lazaro with whom we discussed our

projects and he also wrote a wonderful note for me to remembermy 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 60years 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. Afterwhich 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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