LONDON - WRITING A BLOG POST by Helder Prado

Gastronomic experience

patriciacardoso6 — 2021-04-28 19:15:29 UTC

It was a cold weekend, and I had just landed in another country. I was starving and looking forward to seeing the place. So my friends and I left our luggage at the hotel and went to a nearby mall. When we got there, we found many food options. After trying to find something familiar and not encounter it, we ordered the famous Mexican tortillas with various sauces. So, when came a green sauce, looking like mayonnaise, I did not hesitate to get enough. But on the first bite, I realized it was a spicy sauce with a lot of pepper. And I went running to buy a drink. Everyone laughed. In the end, it was a fun weekend.

Written by Patrícia C.
28 April, 16:17

My crazy aunt

marjorisantos — 2021-04-30 19:44:49 UTC

It was supposed to be a quiet weekend, but what nobody expected was that my aunt arrived of a travel. She is really crazy people, consequently she is the joy of my family. The house was excited, the music started, She brought everything for barbecue, and we stayed the all night talking, dancing, singing, eating, drinking. In one moment my aunt fell off the chair because he upholser was loose, It was very funny.Though what happened, it was so special if me, I really like have the special connection with my family.

Written by Marjori G.
30/04, 16:45

The cast of the clowns

2021-05-01 14:20:37 UTC

It was a cheerful week, everyone was celebrating the college entrance. In the first days we had to pass for the prank college. We walked holding hands with ink, at the CCB singing a “freshman song”. The next day, a Sophomore year said that there was a furious teacher waiting for the students. Then, everyone ran to the class, and the teacher started to scream with the veteran, cause he didn’t tell us about it. The class started and the teacher was explaining fast. In the middle of the class she was even speaking germany with her graduation student. Suddenly, an veteran opened the door and shouted “PRANK CLASS”, all the freshmans were like “WHAT??”.

Written by Leticia Yukari

01 May, 11:20

Vacation

banksluiza3 — 2021-05-03 18:45:20 UTC

I remember once that I and more three friends from different cities were matching to pass the new year in Balneario Camburiu. We expected that we were enjoyed the beach, relaxed and be together. But, a few days before the trip more three friends got in touch with us to ask to pass the new year with us, immediately we accept. In the end, we were in seven people for a house for four people and we drunk so much that we didn't go to the beach during the day because we were so tired. We went to the beach at night to drink in the sand. I loved this vacation!

written by Luíza Banks
03/05, 16:00

An amazing experience

thaispavanato — 2021-05-04 00:50:31 UTC

It was a day for relaxing during the vacation in Mendoza, Argentina, when I saw a poster for paragliding in the Andes and immediately I invited my friend to jump with me. Then she accepted the invitation and we agreed to jump the next day. But during the night I started to be afraid of the idea of paragliding and I didn't want to go anymore. The next morning I told my friend that I wouldn't going to jump and she said that I should go with her and in the place I would decide whether to jump or not. When I got to the top of the mountain and saw the height we were in, I was terrified, but even so I decided to jump. It was one of the best experiences of my life. The landscape of the Andes is unforgettable. It was amazing.

Written by Thaís Pavanato
03 May, 21:53

The crazy womaN

2021-05-04 14:38:13 UTC

It was a Saturday morning, I was at Rio de Janeiro with my friend and we decided to get a coffee in the Starbucks. I was very excited to go there because I’d never drunk it and everyone said that it was delicious. We ran there and got in the row to be attended. Then out of the sudden the woman who was being attended in front of us starts screaming, we got shocked by her. The problem was that they didn’t have change to her one hundred reais bill. She was shaking and very nervous, it seemed that she had an anxiety episode, I don’t know for sure. In the end they found money and changed for her, the Starbucks workers started to laugh and make jokes when the woman left but when she was there they were very scared to. After that me and my friend drunk or coffees and at the end it was all good.

Written by Gustavo Fix
04 May, 11:41

Hogmanay

2021-05-06 01:16:04 UTC

The year 2020 was a complicated year for everyone, near the end of the year, talking to some friends about what the year had been like, we decided that a New Year's Eve should be different. We decided to rent a house on the beach to spend New Year's Eve together, not least because we had never traveled together before this time of year. We arrived on December 28th, the place was really cool, it's in Ilhabela São Paulo. Every night we had a barbecue, drank wine and listened to good music. During the day, each day we would visit a different beach. Until December 30 we went to a beach called Ilha das Cabras, where there was a boat ride sold, we thought the idea was cool and decided to book a tour for the whole day on December 31, such a tour would go around the island to Castelhanos beach.
On the 31st, early in the morning, we arrived at Ilha das Cabras beach to take the motorboat, the day was wonderful, a blue sky, there was no cloud in the sky. We arrived on the boat, took our drinks and started the tour, on board the motorboat we drank champagne and listened to music in the sound of the motorboat, stopped at some beaches, paused for diving, until around 15:00 we arrived at Castelhanos beach.
After 30 minutes of disembarking in Castelhanos the weather turned, the sky became totally dark and winds of 80 km / h hit a beach, suddenly several people who were on this beach ran to take shelter in the small restaurants that exist there. A real storm broke out and more than a hundred people were squeezing themselves under the small leaky roof. Given this, only one thing came to mind, how to return by boat through the sea with this storm? After about two hours the rain stopped and we decided to go back, the sea was rough and a cold wind was blowing on our face. In the coming we had blue skies and heat, in the return we had an intense cold and a rough sea that made the launch boat afraid. On the way back, just wanting everything to end as quickly as possible, we passed close to another motorboat that was on fire in the middle of the sea, there were already other boats helping and we just passed, from a distance we could see smoke, for whom the whole life this time that fire on the high seas was a joke, this time it sometimes happens.
For those who thought that the year 2020 had been complicated and that New Year's Eve would be better, 2020 proved to be a year to go down in history.

Written by Valter Brasil
05/ May 10:20 PM

Girl from Londrina in Rio

beatrizalmeidadebrito — 2021-05-06 14:22:42 UTC

It was a beautiful sunny day. One of those that you look out the window and feel that you need to spend time outside and enjoy life. It was the first vacation weekend in Rio de Janeiro, and my boyfriend, Thiago, and I decided to go to Botafogo beach. We spent most of the time in the sand, drinking a lot of beers, a lot like, at some moment, we forgot the count. Our first mistake, buuuuut we were on vacations in Rio, no worries, right? Wrong! When the sun was almost going down, we picked up our stuff and went to pay the bill, when we realized that we didn’t have enough money. The closer cash machine was far away from where we were, so we asked for a discount. Politely or, I should say, luckily, the kiosk owner let us leave without paying four reais for a thousand of beers we’d ordered that day. Then, we took off the sand of our feet, and we’re in our way to asked for a car on the app. Suddenly, we felt, almost at same time, a huge necessity to pee. Not suddenly, it was an effect of our spree time.

So far, not that good, after waited a few minutes that seemed like hours, we entered into the car just wondering that all the traffic lights were open, and the way got shorter. Nevertheless, out of nowhere, the driver and Thiago started to argue. At that time, I was confusing about what the hell was happening. Thiago ordered to the driver to stop the car and, by some words that I was able to catch, I realized that the driver was accusing us of stealing a phone. The driver saw Thiago’s phone ringing, and he thought that I’d found a mobile phone, in the back seat, where I was, and that I, supposedly, had passed that phone over Thiago’s shoulder, that was seated in front of me. Crazy, right?

After all the chaos, we were so nervous that we had forgotten of our physiological need. Then, we had to ask another car to take us home. From the happiness to the anger, that was my weekend.

Written by Beatriz Brito
May 6th 2021

Lost in Orlando.

2021-05-07 14:32:51 UTC

When I was thirteen years old my family and I traveled to Orlando.It was our first time trip abroad and we didn't know how to drive on US highway.
We stayed in a hotel near the famous fun parks, but next to our hotel there was another fun park completely different from the ones we wanted to visit, so we always used it as a reference to return to the hotel.
One day, after we had fun, we got into the car and headed towards the hotel, but after a long time driving we realized that we had followed the wrong fun park, so we looked at a traffic sign and it had the name of another city. We was in panic but we kept driving until we reached a toll, so we asked how to get back to Orlando, but we needed coins to back and we had no coins!
We spent for a long time on a completely deserted highway, after an hour a car stopped to help and gave us coins in exchange for money. After this madness we maneged to get to our hotel in safe.

Written by Letícia Neves
07 May, 2021

COCKATIEL IN DANGER

raquels6 — 2021-05-07 22:11:08 UTC

One weekend last month, I decided to shopping with my dog, named Cora.
We were walking in a pet store when a I saw a cockatiel walking on the floor.
I was terrified!
Before I could do anything, Cora grabbed the cockatiel!
As my dog is trained I screamed: let go!!! let go!!!
While I was screaming, everyone came to see what was happening.
In seconds Cora spat the cockatiel!
The bird was not hurt, for our luck.
I returned home glad with Cora’s behavior.
She is precious!

No time to return!

lisandracardoso — 2021-05-07 22:11:52 UTC

A couple of months ago, my husband was in Balneário Camburiú on business, when, on a Friday, he tells me: “Honey, I bought your ticket, let's go to the beach”. No way ! We were - and still are - in the middle of a pandemic and he suddenly tells me that he wants to go to the beach? He knows me, knows that I always plan every week in advance and we are in a pandemic, what do I do? ... There were 20 days left to restart my internship cycle in university. It was my last vacation. I thought. "We will stay with a mask and in isolated places". I took a chance. Immediately, I rented a hotel through Booking.com and went without any money in my hand. I've never done anything like that. I was loving it all. Once there, the weather suddenly changed, it was cold, raining and the sky was covered with clouds. “You can't have bad weather on the beach”, we talked to each other all the time, laughing at all of that. We were discovering each corner of the coast in 4 days, with no time to return and looking for accommodation at the end of each day without commitment to the next day. “Look, love, the weather is getting better!” - that was the most spoken phrase during the days of the trip. Despite the cold and rough seas, they were the best days of the year for me, we had a lot of fun! We walked on the edge of the beach in the rain, we explored trails in the forest, we were cold, the clothes were all wet! But it had good food, a wonderful view and the best company in the world! In the midst of such troubled years, this weekend marked me. It renewed my energies. I was grateful for all of this - it was more than 10 months since we had any leisure away from home due to the pandemic. This experience taught us that no matter where we are, where we go. What really matters is to be safe and surrounded by the people we love.

Written by Lisandra Bueno
07 May, 19:00

Car crash

2021-05-08 03:01:44 UTC

In 2020 me and my friends were taking some time togheter on our friend's house in the pool. We were relaxing and swimming. Then we decided to go to a lake near by his house, but the only person that has a car didn't has a driver's license, but he had drived a lot of times and we didn't worried about this. We get there and stand for a time. When we were going back home, my friend didn't noticed that he was on the wrong way, because the place was badly signaled. When we see a car was running into our direction and crashed in our car. Fortunately we were stoped and nobody get hurt. At the end, we had to wait the winch to get the other driver's car and we talked to him that the insurance would pay the prejudice, and everithing was fine at all.

- Fernando Aidar Larini

Dancing weekend

medvetarielaguiar — 2021-05-11 16:32:02 UTC

It was a cold day. I didn’t intend to go out and my friends asked me to dinner. The master cuckoo of the time Axel would make one of his specialties: Hot dog. To complement the banquet, I brought chocolate cake with chocolate icing.
The conversation flowed, when suddenly we stopped at the subject video game and at my friends' house had one and the game "just dance". We quickly got ready for a night of high-speed, the coolest we ever played in doubles, and I won every single round of the night’s dance.

Written by Ariel de Aguiar the dancer girl.
May 11.05.2021

Falling star...?

jgabvicente2000 — 2021-05-13 00:57:44 UTC

It was a sunny day, which is surprisingly odd, because everytime an astronomical event occurs, the weather in Apucarana gets terrible. I was excited for this, I would finally watch a meteor shower! When night came, I was ready for the show, lying in the grass on the back of my house. The minutes went by and no meteors had shown up, until one appeared. It was like a star moving really fast and, all of a sudden, disappearing. I was expecting a cinematographic event, with a series of shooting stars falling from the sky, though it was nothing like that… Maybe because I was in an urban environment, but just once every couple of minutes one meteor would pop up. I was frustrated, but decided to stay there and count the number of meteors that would come, making a wish each time. Well, thirteen wishes is pretty good but I ended up having my cinematographic show after all. Good things come to those who wait, huh. When I was getting really bored, another meteor started to fall following its normal path, but at the moment it was supposed to disappear, it stopped in the sky like an ordinary star. That was odd, but what came next is beyond explanation. The “meteor” went backwards on its track, moving towards the place it had first appeared. Suddenly the thing started to wander around the sky, on a complete chaotic movement. I have never seen something like that before. As it came it went, the thing was gone and I was alone again, mouth open and breathless. It was hard to sleep that night...

Written by João Gabriel
12 May, 10:00 pm

The Hunt

viniciusnicolau — 2021-05-13 23:57:04 UTC

In the summer of 2019, me and three friends decided to go to Florianópolisby motorcycle: we would leave Londrina at friday's dawn, spend the weekend on the beach and then come back.
We were rolling close to Curitiba when the first problem showed up: my friend's motorcycle stopped suddenly, a little cloud of smoke leaking on the top of engine. Luckly, we found a mechanic that fixed the problem (a pretty expensive fix) so we could go on our way.
Further, when we were already playing on the beach, a friend of mine just vanishe while he went to the bathroom, making everbody nervous and worried. After 2 hours looking through the whole beach (even the lifeguard was helping us), we found him far away from where we were, talking and playing guitar with a bunch of hippies. I was very angry but, because my dumb friend, we met some amazing folks and had a really great time.

Vinícius Nicolau

A dark dinner

estereliza1 — 2021-05-14 04:47:51 UTC

I was feeling alone so I decided to call some friends to spend the weekend with me. So I called Larissa, Guilherme and Luiza to make a dinner, but what was supposed to be a fun dinner with friends ended up becoming almost a nightmare.
When they arrived we discussed what we were going to eat, Larissa and Guilherme wanted to make breaded chicken, and Luíza and I were responsible for making the carbonara noodles.
Unfortunately, I didn't have all the ingredients at home so we went to the market, but when we got back to the building, we saw that it was very dark and we asked the doorman what had happened and he told us that it had no electricity. We had to go up 11 floors with our hands full of bags with the ingredients we had bought, we arrived so tired that we considered the idea of asking for food, but if we did it, someone would have to go down to get it and we decided that this is a bad idea.
We had to make dinner by candlelight and using the cell phone flashlight. We were relieved to be able to finish everything and put the food on the table. When we sat down to eat suddenly the light came on, we didn't know whether to cry or to start laughing.

Written by Ester Rodrigues

A Sky Beyond The Storm

2021-05-14 23:35:30 UTC

Last Saturday I had the worst day ever. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but my schedule is full! I hardly had time to breathe. And it was Saturday! World Rest Day. As soon as I realized my problem, I started to eliminate the tasks one by one. However, the day was running, and the list was far from over.
Consequently, I started to get angry. I wanted to lie down and relax! Last month I started watching Naruto and I was so looking forward to spending the weekend with the classic seasons. All this was taken away by an endless list of tasks.
At the height of my irritation and drama - with tears and everything - my mother, believe it or not, offered to watch some episodes with me. I was so shocked by the invitation that all the anger passed. In the end, it was an amazing day. Great memories with a great person.

Written by Karen Mendes
08 May, 2021

My different weekend

gabrielaoliveira28 — 2021-05-15 01:38:54 UTC

My family and I have the habit (by force majeure) of always traveling to the same place (unfortunately). But there was a day when my sister was researching something on the internet and gave the idea of traveling to a different place on the extended holiday that we would have because of being close to the weekend.
Amazingly, my parents accepted it! Uhuuul
We went to Beto Carrero, it was amazing! We went on several toys together (I never thought it was possible, because my mother is very scared) and we also had the opportunity to go to the beach.
We got wet on the water toy, "fell" from an enormous height on another toy and we went several times on the roller coaster.
It was amazing to see that not only my sister and I were having fun, but our parents too!

Written by Gabriela
14 May, 2021

Karma come over

2021-05-15 03:24:44 UTC

So let's for the Storytime, on 12/01/2019 I went to take the college entrance exam but before let me put you into something. I was 16 and I traveled alone to Londrina more than 300km from home, periodt.

Arriving in Londrina, the first thing I did was put my phone on charge and go to bed to rest after the long travel, but when I wake up I realize that my phone had the same battery level as hours before, I went to a store near the center to see if the problem was with the charger, but it was at the phone entrance and to improve the day the store owner just destroyed what had left of the entrance, at this point I was already dead but I didn't sleep on it, I warned my parents and as I had 16y, not old enough to buy a new android they needed to come to Londrina. ~~details: this new phone also broke for the same reason as the other one, that fact~~ ~~hits different...~~

And during that day while waiting for my parents I went for a walk around town during which I was almost get robbed but luckily my strange addiction of not carry a wallet and thanks to the problems with my broke phone, I didn't miss anything.

At the end of that traumatic day that I spent half of it in the dirty room, my parents arrived and I brought the phone and when I returned to my Airbnb my host was crying and I had to listen she talk about the difficult relationship with her rich dad. Anyway this day lives rent free in my mind.

yes I entered in college, but it has the same energy as this day LOL

Written by Gabriel Marques

May 6th , 01:00 am