Letter 15: My Winter Vacation

Tim,

I spent all my time traveling with my family abroad during the winter vacation. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to celebrate the Chinese New Year, but we enjoyed our trip.

My dad works in São Paulo, Brazil. We visit him every year, and go around Europe by the way. In fact, we have our connecting flight in Amsterdam.

When we were in Brazil, my dad still went to work as usual, so the rest of us stayed in the hotel for most of the time. Well… I can’t speak Portuguese, and neither does my mom, my sister, or most of the Brazilians. If we bump into robbers, we won’t even understand whether he wants money or something else. My dad takes us out on weekends to museums and “blocos de carnival”, which is “carnival of the blocks” in English and it’s actually a pre-carnival. Blocos are far from interesting to people who don’t dance, just like us. The people there follow a parade playing loud music and they just dance with beer for hours. 

↑my sister and I at the bloco

I like the museums there a lot. They are mostly free, and they include from art works to science museums. We even watched a movie with the Virtual Reality technology about the history of dinosaurs! I was really surprised that the whole thing was free.

↑ the VR theatre

Let me tell you about the Europe part next time.

Allison