you guys miracles happen i don't know how this kind of stuff happens to me but
i am behind the scenes here in the samba dome in sao paulo i was very kindly gifted vip tickets
by the tourism board here and i am just so psyched because seeing carnival was one of
the top things that i wanted to do in brazil and i thought because of covet it wasn't going to happen
but today it is happening and i am here with my lovely friend sheena we met on a tour in rio
of all places and we're both canadians canucks in sao paulo you actually live here like you've been
living here a few years now i do live here i've lived here for three years but i never got an
opportunity to come here because of the pandemic so yeah it's amazing i can't believe it thank you
of course well i mean thank you tourism board but it's crazy because like we're here we'll just turn
around we're here backstage as performers are lining up but this show really goes for
basically i think nine hours if it starts at ten and it ends at seven seven eight in the morning
that's a long day and each school performs for an hour yeah so it's crazy it's gonna be epic guys
foreign
you actually work for the tourism board here right yeah i do for how many years have you
done carnival and some 15 years so you know this place very well how long is this like stretch that
we're walking on 530 meters okay and i mean the floats they don't go like super fast right the
flow there is a specific path and speed you should load because you get it and the performance is
no more than 65 minutes yeah if you go over that so your school is pointing so the whole school
must have a rhythm and there are some people on the side and they dictate the rhythm of the
all the allies and all the groups and every school has like thousands of performers right yeah from
4 000 to 6 000 people like that's the average for the special group
today and tomorrow that's the lead group of the carnivorous wow amazing amazing
foreign
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thank you
all right back in the vip tent sheena cheers to an epic night
so that was like a million times better than i even expected it to be
and like the energy the energy of these people and like just going out and that they have those
people that are like telling them like more energy so my god like a once in a lifetime experience
that like i will never forget if you have the chance to come here
but yeah now we are back in the vip i guess it is we got some drinks and we can't like
go and watch the performances over there but there's obviously like a lot of people already
yeah we'll try and make it in there but it's crazy because like
i guess most people don't even arrive right when it starts it's
like there's people arriving now and it's already like midnight some people
that's true all night party
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it is the next day i'm back at my apartment i did not feel like filming when i
got home because it was like 3 30 in the morning and even though i'm a night owl i am usually like
exhausted by 1am so i just figured i'd wrap things up in the morning obviously you guys can see how
amazing of a time i had it was literally like the most surreal travel experience to be able to be
that close to the action the performances were just amazing so i feel incredibly grateful that
i got to have that experience once again thank you so much to the tourism board here in sao paulo the
amazing carnival festival thank you for letting me have this experience i know everybody says that
rio is like the biggest you know carnival and sure i'd love to see that one as well
but i feel like it was meant to be for me to be here in sao paulo and get to experience that so
go see both if you can but that is actually the end of the series guys like this is my last
um video of brazil it has been almost three months of being in the country and i gotta get out before
my visa expires i really have had an amazing time and would obviously highly recommend you come to
brazil there's an endless amount of places to see and obviously with this trip i really focused more
on the southern you know part of the country so i would love to come back and uh do more of the
north go see the pantanal go see the amazon that would be super cool but i am off in a couple of
days here to mexico city which i'm very excited for i think that will be a great transition
in between south america and well canada uh when i head back there in june i'll only be
in mexico about a month so i hope you guys have enjoyed this series let me know your thoughts
down below thank you so much for all of your support during this time and uh as always
keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
you