All along I was at the wrong beach!

Returned from the beach yesterday. Don~t want to get caught at the Carnival national 4 day holiday traffic.

Just now at the internet, I discover that I went to the wrong beach.

I should have been here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX9qgWjpYgY

Beach again

Off tomorrow to the beach for a week before it get really crowded during carnival - Feb 8-12.

陈志钊 Zizao of Brazil

陈志钊2012年3月1号正式加盟巴西豪门哥年泰斯

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzU5NTAyOTU2.html

 

陈志钊（1988年3月14日－），出生于广东省番禺县（现广州市番禺区），14岁时，在青少年足球人才选秀赛上，陈志钊表现突出被七大俱乐部选中，最终被时任申花足校教练的朱炯带到申花。在接下来的4年时间里，陈志钊一直在申花二队比赛、训练。效力于香港公民队期间，共参加了35场比赛。作为边锋或前卫的他，打进了6粒进球。2008年随恩师朱炯加盟南昌，2010年进入中超，首个中超赛季就打入10球，号称南昌梅西。2012年初加盟巴甲豪门科林蒂安队。

Zizao

-Chen Zhizao, the Chinese youngster who joined Corinthians in February of last year made his first start for the Brazilian club and looked good doing so, getting an assist on his team’s only goal (video of the play on youtube and sina for those who are GFW blocked).

Fans like him. Female fans love him!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=QPFVI4HJUno

CARNAVAL - The, Greatest Show on Earth

RIO CARNAVAL 2012

 

The Champions of Rio Carnival 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESzS9sbRokM

RIO CARNAVAL" 2012, Greatest Show on Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQWQ7GizK3c

Rio Carnival 2012: in pictures

http://totallycoolpix.com/2012/02/rio-de-janeiro-carnival-2012/

Rio Carnival 2013: 12 days & 01:29 hours left.

Rio Carnival 2013 dates: February 8th until February 12th

Free dental care for mom

We played guinea pigs 8 years ago. Rafael is very good now.

He loves his work. He not only get the satisfaction after the job is done. 

He enjoys every moment of it.

He was inspired at ten years old having to visit a dental office.

How lucky for him to find a career he loves.

Most people just work for money and hate their jobs.

Free X-ray for Adriana. She needs to visit her son for more than one week to fix her teeth.

Taking a nap!

Relax! It is free, no charge for mother.

The cost is about one third of Canada.

Second canal work in progress.

Have to go back next week.

Brazil 2004

My first blog for Brazil - 2004 with Anita and Jennifer visiting during winter here.
http://amazingtrips.tripod.com/

Slavery in Brazil

      

Slavery in Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Slavery in Brazil began in the 16th century, when the Portuguese Empire began to colonize the country. The enslavement of indigenous peoples, and later the large-scale importation of Africans, heavily shaped the country's social structure and ethnic landscape. During the colonial epoch and for over six decades after the 1822 independence, slavery^[1] was a mainstay of the Brazilian economy, especially in mining, cotton, and sugar caneproduction. Brazil obtained an estimated 35% of all enslaved Africans traded in the Atlantic slave trade. More than 3 million Africans were sent to Brazil to work mainly on sugar cane plantations from the 16th to the 19th century, far more than were imported into North America. Slavery was finally abolished in Brazil on 13 May 1888. It was the last nation in the Western world to abolish the institution of slavery.

The African slaves in Brazil were not as fortunate as those in US and the Caribbean. Since North America is farther from Africa, the African slaves were treated better. Those in some Caribbean islands were the most fortunate as owners were absentees. They are left to live on their own. Because of the proximity of Brazil to Africa, the slaves were treated the worst. Women and men, even husbands and wives, were separated to prevent pregnancy. It was much cheaper to replace a slave in Brazil than in the US. 

Capoeira - An Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

   
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that incorporates dance, song, music and oral history. Its roots are to be found in Brazilian slave society, as well as - via the transatlantic slave trade - in central Africa.
Capoeira was born not as a fighting style, but as a hope of survival. A tool with which an escaped slave, completely unequipped, could survive in the hostile, unknown land and face the hunt of the capitães-do-mato, the armed and mounted colonial agents who were charged with finding and capturing escapees.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2ZoehKv4U

  Best Capoeira Brazil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0D8VaIli0


2004 Winter in Brazil, Adriana arranged a capoeira lesson for Anita and Jennifer.