Day 10-Brendan Long

We had to wake up at 5 in the morning in order to catch the bus for Rio de Janeiro. We all went down to breakfast half asleep, and luckily, no one forgot to wake up this time. On the bus ride most of us slept for the majority of the time and we had lunch at a store in the middle of the highway. After lunch we travelled 2 more hours to Rio, and on the way we were all amazed by the Jesus statue on the top of the mountain. I found that as we travelled to Rio there were some very extreme living conditions. The favelas on which people live look nothing like what we see back home. I found it amazing how very poor areas could be located adjacent to much richer areas. For example, our hotel from the street side looks like any major city, filled with skyscrapers and hotels, but after a look out the back of my hotel room i found a town that looks to be in the middle of a jungle. This interested me because i had never seen a situation such as that before. Once there we all checked into our rooms. Next we all walked down to the Copacabana Beach and swam in massive waves for a hour and a half before playing some beach soccer. The beach had extremely soft sand and the water looked tropical and like something you would see in a brochure. Later at dinner we went to another churrascaria restaurant that had a great variety of foods.