SAMBO
IS COMING TO TOWN! Minha cidade! Sao Pedro! For those back home that might not
be a big deal, but for us folk here in Brazil it’s a HUGE deal! For those who
don’t know, Sambo is a mixture of rock and pop songs with a samba beat added to
it. Popular songs such as “This Love” by Maroon 5 and “Bloody Sunday” by U2 are
but a few to have had a saucy samba beat added to it. So obviously because
Sambo was coming to town everyone was needing a new dress…a new pair of shoes….
A new belt that made an old dress look new…etc. I however already knew what I
was wearing and therefore didn’t technically I didn’t need to go shopping of
any kind. But just like all of the other girls I was helpless to the powers of
shopping and found myself along with all the other girls in the shops
frantically searching for something pretty to wear.
After two weeks of preparing and re-preparing
the day of Sambo arrived. It was going to be held on a Friday evening rather
than the Saturday evening because last Saturday was a holiday here in Brazil. Because
of this hardly anyone went to school that Friday, and the few that did just
spoke about one topic…I’ll give you three chances to guess what it was :P.
after a long day of waiting to get ready the night arrived! I met up with my
friends round about 10 o’clock to get ready. After a massive round of “no I
don’t want make up!” and “please, you will look prettier than you already do!”
everyone, me included (I lost the makeup battle :/ ) was caked in makeup ready
for the show! :D The show started at 1 in the morning but because Sambo is so
popular in my city people started to line up at 11:30 at night! Half an hour
later we finally got into the club and it was time to dance the night away! :D We
danced to pre-Sambo music for about an hour before it was time for them to take
the stage…and they were soo worth the wait! The show was amazing! Everyone was
singing and dancing with everyone else. Half way through the show I ended up losing
my friends for abit but it was okay because the people I didn’t know danced
with me until I was found by my friends! The show lasted for about two hours
and I can honestly say I danced for every second of it. It’s impossible to keep
still when Sambo is playing! Towards the end of the last song I caught the eye
of the one of the guys playing the ukulele. He smiled at me and I smiled back
at him. When the song had finished threw the pic he was playing with towards me
and winked. I can now say that I am the proud owner of a pic which was used in
a live Sambo show! :D by time it was ready to leave it was early half three in
the morning and all I really wanted was my bed. Unfortunately I couldn’t have
it because my family and I were off to a water park five hours away from my
city….
Read
about what happened at the water park in; the weekend I got next to no sleep
Part II
