What’s carnival nowadays?! Every carnival here in Brazil, people went to streets to dancing a lot, drinking a lot, meet too much new people….all these things at the carnival reveler. But nowadays no one knows the histories of the Carnival.
Since about ten thousand years before Jesus Christ, men, women and child get-together in the summer with masked faces and painted bodies to scared the demons of the bad crop.
After, the Carnival acquires a new meaning in Portugal. This time people threw eggs, flour and water each other. The Carnival happened in a period before the Lent, therefore, it have and has a liberty signification. People “use” the carnival to “abuse” all that they could because in the Lent they must be reserved (ex.: don’t drink during the Lent) to purify the soul.
I think that the Brazilian Carnival is the most beautiful carnival in the world. The most part of the Brazilians goes to Bahia, Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo to celebrate the carnival and to see the Samba Schools League, the “Trios Elétricos”, etc.
My carnival holyday was very cool. First I went to a farm which my family have just reform so it’s everything beautiful yet. Before it was just a house with a big pool, a court and a little plantation. Now it’s too much better.
The old house has been turned into a house just for meals, TV and sauna. The pool hasn’t been transformed, but we have done a Jacuzzi at the side wich is very good to relax. The where we parked cars has been transformed into a beautiful house which has in the first floor, a wonderful home theater, a huge kitchen and a table for commemorations. In the second floor there are the rooms, it has eight rooms (one room for each uncle), a fireplace so comfortable and wine deposit which is always full. I think the decoration of this farm (mostly of the biggest house) is very very good. My cousin had done the decoration using Feng Shuï and I learn with her how to do it.
Before I return to São Paulo, me and my cousins went to Riviera de São Lourenço to stay only two days. It was so good and very warm weather.
After that I returned to São Paulo and on Friday I traveled again to the beach, but this time to Enseada. I saw there a lot of people that I already knew. Every day I went out with my friends. I returned on Sunday and went immediately to bed because I was very tired! The best if this holiday is that I’ve missed a week of classes travelling. =)
