good morning everybody what a crazy last couple of days it has been so i am currently in a beach town
um a couple hours away from rio called a high alto cabo it is currently the official carnival season
so even though the actual festivities uh have been canceled a lot of people are still taking
their vacation time in brazil and this is actually one of the most popular places uh for locals to go
right beside it is another place that is more popular with foreigners called busios which is on
my agenda to visit as well but with everything that has happened um with the war in ukraine
i'm not exactly sure if i can even really continue this trip what's difficult is we don't really know
when you know this is all going to end when the violence and attacks are going to end at
this point i'm just trying my best to make sure my family is safe and that they have everything
they need when the warfare actually stops that's when you know they'll obviously have
to decide whether they want to stay in ukraine or whether they want to go to another country
obviously my mom and i will help them with that as much as we can but right now when
it's very difficult to actually leave the country and as i mentioned in my prior video
men 18 to 60 can't leave so obviously my younger cousin and uncle are not able to leave
so right now it really is a waiting game and hoping for the best and if i'm being honest you
know in this kind of time it's very difficult for me to just put on a happy face and enjoy
you know these unique wonderful beautiful places that i'm visiting here in brazil but
but at the same time the way i look at it is yes of course i'm going to give myself you know some
time to just process all of this i'm not going to force myself to do any work i don't want
to do but on the other hand uh what my family could really need help with possibly you know
in the next few months if they do decide to go to another country is probably financial aid so
how do i have more money i get more money by working by doing my channel sure i could create
content um in alberta and you know canada as well but obviously it's much more expensive to
travel canada as well i am actually planning to go there for the summer and we'll be creating content
then but if i chose to go now i would basically be forfeiting i think seven or eight hundred dollars
of plane tickets that i've bought so far i'd be forfeiting this opportunity to see brazil it's
like i'm already here right i may as well you know film everything i can so i don't know like i'm on
the fence of what i should do because on one hand i don't feel i can't really work and you know
be happy and you know do it the way i want to initially do it but at the same time i feel
like in a practical sense and more in a long-term sense this would be the best thing for me to do
side note of anybody worrying for me that i'm you know vlogging in the middle of the street
after my columbia experience thankfully i have been told by multiple sources that this area of
brazil is one of the safest you can get of course of course somebody you know right now could just
grab my camera out of my hand or i don't know tell me to give them their wallet or their phone but
i've been here for about three four days now and overall do get a very relaxed safe sort of vibe as
well and to be honest after everything my family has been through you know with the threat of like
missile attack and god knows what else somehow my um you know incident doesn't seem quite as scary
but i thought that i would vlog today and kind of you know tell you what's on my
mind about the situation because i haven't made a final decision just yet whether i'm
going to stay or whether i'm going to go back to canada but i thought that you know while
i'm here and sure i don't feel like you know making a happy-go-lucky travel guide video
i'll just have a chat with you guys take you guys along as i just do some regular day
stuff today's saturday so there's a place that has brunch which i'm so excited for
oh no once again forgot to ask for no chocolate and no whipped cream which actually oh abrigada
perfect yeah i forgot to ask for no chocolate in my cappuccino
dang it but anyways all of this looks fantastic
a few moments later now this is the good stuff guys this coffee right here i ordered
an espresso shot because i just need some black coffee um is from a company called orfu i hope
i'm pronouncing that correctly but i was told by a few of my brazilian friends that
this is one of the best like coffee companies that they have here in brazil my mom bought a
whole bunch of this stuff before she went back to canada so very grateful they have this here
all right that was a lovely breakfast to start off the day so now i think
i'm going to take you guys to the largest beach that they have here in
i think there's like four beaches or something that are actually on the borders of the city
itself and then there's a whole bunch if you drive you know 20 30 minutes out of the city but this
one is probably my favorite the sand is so white it's such a long coastline and it's just beautiful
do
hey
so this is it guys this is grand
beach the largest beach right in and by the way ahal is actually spelt a-r-r-a-i-a-l-docabo
but the r's here are pronounced as h's so it's pronounced aha
so yeah as you guys can see this place is just paradise and it is crazy because uh i haven't
really come across any western tourists i guess you could say there are definitely tourists um
like a guy i met actually from colombia and i'm sure many other latin american destinations but
this uh place in particular is very popular with brazilians and you can definitely see why like
the color of the water here is just ridiculous and this part of the country is actually known as the
brazilian caribbean but yeah i think i'm going to actually end off the video here i just wanted to
give you guys you know a brief update of where i'm at because honestly at this point i haven't
decided if i'm going to stay or i'm going to leave if i do decide to stay the next videos that
you will see will actually be the three videos that i filmed in rio because obviously i haven't
released those videos and that's before the time of this whole situation well once again thank
you so much to everyone who has supported me and my family through these crazy times
i really do hope that there will be a resolution for at least the violence to stop in the coming
days but until then please keep the citizens of ukraine in your thoughts i hope all of your loved
ones all around the world are safe and until next time keep being your own kind of beautiful guys
you